A woman stole items from two Skipton stores, town magistrates heard yesterday.

Jennifer Ann Downing, 38, admitted two counts of theft on September 25.

Downing, of Pinhaw Road, Skipton, was fined £25 for a theft of items from B&M Stores and £50 for taking a coat and food from Morrisons and ordered to pay £20 victims’ surcharge and £85 costs.