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According to the Independent website, a former senior manager for the NHS has been jailed for defrauding hundreds of thousands of pounds from a hospital trust where he worked.

In a sophisticated fraud, Barry Stannard set up two companies which he used to send hundreds of fake invoices to the hospital, which he would then sign off himself.

The Yorkshire Evening Post website reports that a shoplifter was arrested after he was found with magnets in his boxer shorts.

A court heard that Terrence Miles used an “improvised item” in his underwear to remove security tags from clothing at a White Company store in Leeds.

The Yorkshire Live website reports that budding science teacher’s career is over after he used fake documents to get himself a job.

Following concerns about Muhammad Hussain’s teaching methods, school leaders contacted his former employers to check his NQT assessments.

The Lancashire Telegraph website reports that a mum and son shoplifting team cleared a whole shelf of cosmetics in a branch of Boots, worth £1,364.

Ramona and Sebastian Gavril even returned to the same store three weeks later to steal sun cream worth £449.

The Northern Echo website reports that a woman took advantage of her position to steal more than £22,000 to repay debts to a loan shark.

Kay McManus was in charge of overseeing rent accounts for a housing provider, but had acquired a huge gambling debt with extortionate interest rates.

The Devon Live website reports that a ‘model worker’ employed by a food company secretly stole £216,000 from the business to feed his gambling addiction.

Richard Jacobs’ fraud hit J&R Food Services so badly that some employees lost their jobs and others could not be paid bonuses.