A couple have each been given a community order with 80 hours’ unpaid work after they pleaded guilty to benefit fraud at York Magistrates Court.

Stephen Leadley, 39, and his wife Vivien, 33, both of Langholme Drive, received £11,766 in housing benefit and council tax benefit they were not entitled to.

According to City of York Council, which brought the prosecution, they failed to disclose the correct date on which the wife started work that the husband had a second job.

In addition to the community order, they were each ordered to pay £100 prosecution costs.