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According to The Irish Sun website, the general manager of a Dublin cinema stole over €200,000 from his employer.

John Connolly told police that he thought he could take the money and put it back, whilst a court heard that at one stage he was one number away from winning €250,000 on the Lotto.

According to the News & Star website, a hotel manager stole more than £107,000 from his employer, through theft and falsifying cash sheets.

Stewart McIntosh, committed the thefts and false accounting while working as a manger at The Graham Arms Hotel, and having day-to-day responsibility for the daily takings.

The BBC News website reports that a Londonderry company nearly collapsed after a former office manager spent £590,000 on online gambling, using corporate credit cards.

On one occasion, Tracey Curran gambled – and lost – £399,000 in winnings in just two days, a court was told.

The Teesside Live website reports that a ketamine-using customer service manager at Coral bookmakers took £1,000 from his employer’s safe to pay off a debt to ‘nasty people’.

Terry O’Neill was a “trusted employee” but stole the money when a customer won £112 from a roulette machine and came to the counter to collect the winnings.

The York Press website reports that a four member shoplifting gang had expandable knickers to hold their stolen wares and avoid anti-theft devices.

One member of the gang, currently on the run – Anne-Marie Raducanu – hid so many clothes in her underwear, police initially thought she was pregnant.

The BBC News website reports that shoplifting is on the rise across Northern Ireland, including a 12% increase in Belfast.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it believed there was a link between increasing retail crime and a rise in the use of illegal drugs.