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BBC News reports that retailers are warning that a sharp rise in shoplifting is being fuelled partly by police forces not investigating the theft of items worth less than £200.

Persistent offenders are apparently exploiting a change in the law that allows for more minor cases to be dealt with by post.

The Bristol Post reports that a woman took an 11-year-old child with her on a shoplifting trip.

CCTV cameras picked up the girl running out of a JD Sports branch with clothes worth £416, and police later located the youngster with Charlotte Cassidy by a BMW car, containing the stolen goods.

Chester’s The Standard reports that a delivery driver has been jailed for using his old uniform as cover to steal parcels.
Kristian Fryer had been fired for stealing parcels whilst he was working for Yodel, but went to stores dressed as an employee and staff handed over packages, unaware he had been sacked.

Lincolnshire Live reports that a bank manager stole almost quarter of a million pounds from her employer, Halifax Bank, by taking cash held within the branch, pocketing money from cash machines and forging signatures, after being approached by a blackmailer who was making threats against another person.

As reported in The Sun, a fraudster who lied on his CV to land a £120,000-a-year job as an oil executive has been jailed.

David Scott said he had three degrees and had written an academic paper, but, in fact, he had no degree and the paper was penned by an American professor with the same name.

As reported in the Sunderland Echo, a 24-year-old fraudster swindled millions of pounds from a car dealership, lavishing himself with cars and houses.

Allan Curry devised a sophisticated scheme to siphon off £2.5m from the Evans Halshaw Vauxhall garage, where he worked as an accountant.