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The localgov website reports that an ex-council employee has been found guilty of defrauding Lancashire County Council out of £1m over a five year period.

Stephen Crewdson was in charge of approving supplier invoices and arranged for builders to bill the council for work that never existed.

A former soldier who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock from work to sell on eBay has walked free from court as a court heard he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. ThisIsWiltshire.co.uk reports that Scott Spencer took high value watches, electrical items and other stock from the warehouse of the Cotswold Outdoor Centre, in Kemble

Major high street retailers in the UK should be bracing for impact as shoplifters are set to significantly erode their profits in the run-up to the busy Christmas shopping period, with dishonest shoppers and employees stealing merchandise totalling 38% of losses incurred over the entire year.

The Torquay Herald Express reports that a former star of the TV reality show The Hotel has been jailed for two years for stealing £13,500 from the bar of a Devon holiday park.

Christian Taylor allowed ‘greed’ to get the better of him and then tried to ‘blag his way out’ of trouble after fiddling the till.

Swindon became the latest target for a travelling Romanian shoplifter who stole more than £700 of goods from Waitrose.

Alexandru Ciurez of Woodford Green, Essex – and a fellow Romanian national – both pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing items on October 25, to the value of £735.10.

According to Your Local Guardian, a former security manager at upmarket department store Bentalls in Kingston made £50,000 by selling designer goods stolen from the shop.

Daniel Clarke used eBay to run a business called PartTimeTrader that specialised in selling handbags, perfumes and clothing.