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The East Anglian Daily Times carries a story of four Asda checkout operators who stole hundreds of items in a “skim-scanning” fiddle.

Rachel Hassall, Angelina Mosley, Sally-Anne Sadler and Tracey Tate helped each other to avoid paying for items by “elevating” them over the scanning devices at checkouts.

According to the Plymouth Herald, a Royal Marine warrant officer stole corps equipment worth almost £67,000 and sold them on eBay, a court was told.

Michael Bath is accused of stealing military property – including military boots and badges – from the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, in East Devon.

According to Mail Online, an accountant claimed she stole £122,000 after becoming frustrated at being overlooked for promotion because she was ‘from outside the UK’.

Diana Vysniauskiene took the money from S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting Ltd – a cyber security firm – using her ill-gotten gains to pay for lavish trips abroad.

Lincolnshire Live reports that a former manager of a tea room who stole thousands of pounds from her boss has been ordered to pay back almost £20,000.

Lucy Hockney stole the cash when she worked at Grayz Tea Rooms in Lincoln, having been “presented as a very good, capable and trustworthy person”, by the owner of the business.

According to the BBC News website, a doctor has been jailed for lying on his CV to get a £55,000-a-year job at a medical research centre.

Oswald Wong pretended to be a General Medical Council (GMC) member to land the role in Merthyr Tydfil – despite not having any medical qualifications to work in Britain.

A 24-year-old bank worker took part in a “sophisticated fraud” which saw scammers steal millions of pounds from rich customers using a string of impersonators.

Molly Jones scoured computer systems at Lloyds Bank for rarely-accessed accounts holding large sums of money before passing the details to a criminal gang.