A MAN who stole three North Face jackets worth £630, belonging to Blacks of Ambleside, was fined after he pleaded guilty to the offence at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

Mark Robert Jackson, 36, of Holborn Hill, Millom, was fined £100, ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £30 vicitim surcharge. An application order was also made for benefit deductions with the sum of £250 to be recovered.

Jackson also pleaded guilty to having in his possession in Kendal a quantity of Diazepam and the court ordered its forfeiture and destruction.