A SHOPLIFTER who stole a box of cider bottles has been given a conditional discharge for 12 months by Bolton magistrates.

Anthony Mills, aged 23, of Crossmoor Drive, Bolton, pleaded guilty to stealing the cider, worth £7 from the Co-op store on Tonge Moor Road on October 20 last year.

He was also ordered to pay £35 prosecution costs, £7 compensation and a £15 victim surcharge.