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An article on OnRec – The Online Recruitment Resource – claims that 38% of UK employers still don’t check whether their potential staff have the ‘right to work’ in the UK, according to a new study, which also claims that only 58% of organisations conduct any background checks on new hires.

A crooked postman stole computer and video games that he was supposed to deliver to addresses in Inverclyde and then sold them on eBay.

Suspicious bosses caught the thief after setting up a surveillance operation complete with ‘test packages’, a court was told.

According to Get Surrey, the daughter and granddaughter of ex-Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs, who have previously been given Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) for shoplifting, have been caught stealing again.

Emma Beach and her mother Karen Briggs admitted stealing perfume from Debenhams in Walton.

As reported by Cumbria Crack, a man has been sentenced for his part in the theft of Pirelli tyres valued at £102,000.

Mark Claxton was in dire financial straits when he stole high value tyres while working at a distribution depot next to Pirelli’s Carlisle site.

As reported in the Gloucester Citizen, a bodybuilding ‘addict’ has been banned from every Gloucester shop after terrorising traders for two years.

James Smith has 40 convictions for stealing items including protein powder and meat to feed his compulsion to work out every day.

Metro reports that a pair of Polish brothers have been deported from the UK after they committed a string of crimes including burglaries, thefts and public order offences in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.