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The Yorkshire Times gives details of a joint operation between West Yorkshire Police and BACIL (Business Against Crime in Leeds) to run a day of action to tackle shoplifting in the city centre.

Known as ‘Operation Balmton’, the manoeuvre consisted of police officers, PCSOs and plain clothed security officers working together in teams.

The Blackpool Gazette reports that an employee of Fleetwood Town took almost £5,000 from the football club in a ticket refund scam over an eleven-month period.

David Holloway – and a colleague, ticket office worker David Hart – gave excessive refunds totalling £4,696 during the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons.

Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus reports that a trusted employee and friend stole £20,000 from his boss by using company materials to carry out work for himself.

Matthew Long, a married father-of-five and a “pillar of respectability”, worked as contracts manager for Kwik Klik Hoardings, which provided shop front hoardings for large shopping centres.

As reported in The Sun, a woman was caught stealing from supermarkets after staff recognised her from the Channel 5 show, Benefits By The Sea.

Sarah Jammeh took £30 of Sainsbury’s meat and £70 of chicken from a Tesco in Clacton, Essex.

According to the Sheffield Star website, a Sheffield grandmother stole more than £8,000 from the Co-op convenience store she worked at for around eight years.

Patricia Budd – a trusted and respected employee – started stealing from the company in 2014, before being caught in November 2016.

Another six-figure theft as the Surrey Comet reports that a Twickenham woman who defrauded her employer out of more than £500,000 has been jailed.

Gwenda Hussey had various finance roles at an events management company since 2008 but was dismissed from the company for gross misconduct in 2015.