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The Luton Today website reports that a Bedfordshire police officer has resigned after she admitted to repeatedly stealing from a branch of Sainsbury’s.

PC Sarah Bell was caught by an in-store detective using a self-scan machine to pay £41 for goods that were actually worth £222.

As reported on the BBC News website, detectives have seized 70 tonnes of counterfeit items hidden inside more than 150 shipping containers, during a 48-hour search of a site on the outskirts of Manchester.

Police officers have linked the shipping containers to the illegal trade in fake goods on Bury New Road.

A reported on the Chester Standard website, a letting manager defrauded a six-figure sum from a Chester estate agents, which led to them having to make redundancies.

Wendy Dare had full access to the company account and made many fraudulent payments from that account over several years.

According to the Stoke Sentinel website, a gambling gambling addict blew her inheritance and then began creating fake invoices to steal more than £21,000 from her employer.

Maxine Parkes – jailed for 20 months – had previously stolen £44,000 from a previous job as a bookkeeper.

According to the Telegraph & Argus website, a car saleswoman has admitted to stealing more than £23,000 from a family-run dealer group in Bradford.

Donna O’Melia took cash payments from customers and kept the money, using it to fund her serious gambling addiction.

A letter on The Guardian website details how one supermarket employee is “burnt out” from dealing with shoplifters in a London store.

The letter from an anonymous contributor details the massive increase in shoplifting and theft that is described as “to order”.