A Northampton carer has been jailed after stealing an estimated £73,000 over the course of three years from an elderly woman with dementia she was looking after.
A cafe and a shop owner are warning traders to be wary of two young men who are believed to be using a scam tactic to steal money from small businesses.
Suspicious cats, pies on windowsills and out-of-date yoghurts feature in just some of the ridiculous 999 calls Northamptonshire Police receives on a daily basis.
In what could be a sketch from the series Phonejacker - scammers are calling homes in the county asking people to withdraw all their funds from their bank account and place them somewhere for safe collection.
