A MAN was ordered to pay £300 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to stealing £34 worth of stationery from a Rymans store.

Westmorland Shopping Centre security guards found the items on Daniel Shad, 39, of Kirkstone Close, Ambleside, after staff saw him acting suspiciously.

He was fined £45 and ordered to pay £255 in costs and surcharges.