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As reported on the Metro website, supermarkets have enlisted staff – ‘meat monitors’ – to protect expensive cuts of meat due to increased shoplifting sparked by the cost-of-living crisis.

Upmarket stores in Maidenhead were forced to act after losing ‘thousands of pounds worth of stock’ every week.

The Chronicle Live website reports that Tesco is increasing security at its stores to prevent shoplifting as people struggle with the rising costs of living.

The retailer is “putting more security presence” into branches most impacted by shoplifting, its chairman has said.

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that an assistant accountant stole more than £80k from her employers, to pay for a lavish lifestyle, including an Audi A7 and holidays to Florida, Lapland, and New York.

Katie Nelson used blank cheques already signed by bosses to pay cash to herself.

As reported on The Cumberland News wesbite, a pub worker with a secret cocaine addiction stole from his employer in a desperate bid to settle his drugs debt.

During a four-day period of sick leave, Ryan Wightman repeatedly sneaked back into the office so that he could steal cash from the safe.

The Derby Telegraph website reports that a thief with previous convictions for theft and robbery, threw his employers’ trust “back in their face” by stealing £20,000 worth of goods.

Nathan Wood – also known as Nathan Huntington – stole pallets of insulation rolls from the firm’s warehouse on five separate occasions.

The Metro website reports that an office manager stole more than £14,000 from her employer to pay for IVF debts, council tax and fund her nephew at university.

Milanthi Welamedage was a trusted worker at Becon, a now defunct charity that helped black and ethnic minority communities.