End of career for benefits cheat nurse

A nurse who cheated her local council out of more than £50,000 in fake benefit claims by pretending to be a single mother has been thrown out of the profession. Mum-of-four Serrina Twyning conned Cheltenham Borough Council by saying she lived alone with her children. But in fact she lived with long-term partner David Hodges, who was also working full time, when she was working at Cheltenham General Hospital. Twyning blagged housing benefits and council tax of more than £50,191….