DIDCOT: A 39-year-old man has admitted stealing cash from a charity box.

Stephen Godfrey, of North Road, Didcot, pinched a total of £9 from a Macmillan Cancer Support collection at Glide Pharmaceutical Ltd in Milton Park.

Godfrey, who admitted one count of theft and asked for another to be taken into consideration at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday, got access to the offices at night as his partner was a cleaner.

He was given a curfew and must pay £9 compensation and £85 costs.