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According to the Daily Echo website, a cancer charity’s financial coordinator holidayed abroad and went on shopping sprees after stealing more than £90,000 from the organisation.

Paula Tribbeck took advantage of the charity’s expansion and lack of staff supervision to pilfer £91,344 over a seven-year period.

The Wales Online website reports that a former Sky employee tried to blackmail the broadcaster out of more than £40,000 worth of Bitcoin after he was sacked.

Imoudu Chaba tried to extort £44,286 by hacking a former colleague’s hard-drive to steal over 11,000 customers details.

Mail Online reports that an RE teacher has been banned from teaching for life after he falsely claimed to be an Oxford don and an ex-teammate of England rugby legend Will Carling.

Paul Elliott also exaggerated his teaching positions at Liverpool Hope University, and at £16,000-a-year Churcher’s College in Hampshire.

A trusted office manager with a small company spent at least seven years stealing tens of thousands of pounds from the firm.

Debra Robbins helped herself to more than £63,000, details of which were not discovered until she left her job and a replacement found the books didn’t balance.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that the city’s infamous ‘Counterfeit Street’ is to be bulldozed, in a radical move to smash a “national magnet for criminality”.

Buildings on Bury New Road are to be closed, compulsory purchased, and then flattened, in an operation to erase for good dozens of shops in the area which sell fake clothing, perfume, tobacco and toys.

The Bournemouth Echo website reports that an employee stole stock worth over £54k before selling it on eBay during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Steven Keith Fugatt started stealing in March 2020 and his thieving continued for more than a year, which caused significant harm to his employer’s business model.