A postal worker from Peterborough who stole packages containing pornographic DVDs and women's underwear and stashed them in his loft has been warned he could face jail.

A postal worker from Peterborough who stole packages containing pornographic DVDs and women's underwear and stashed them in his loft has been warned he could face jail.Royal Mail investigators received a tip-off in May this year and raided Alec Clark's former home address in Peterborough to find 10 packets containing sex toys and 60 pieces of lingerie, along with receipts from adult companies, hidden in the attic.

The haul, which he had accumulated over 10 years, also included a pile of 24 explicit DVDs.

Clark would open "multiple order" boxes containing up to 20 DVDs, steal one from each, repackage the remaining items and deliver them, Peterborough Magistrates' Court was told yesterday.

When he was confronted with the items, Alec Clark (35), who now lives at Chaucer Road, New England, admitted he had taken them, saying: "It seems I'm really into something that's overtaken my mind. I had no intention of doing anything with it."

He had been employed as a delivery driver and collections manager by Parcelforce for 11 years, first in Peterborough and then in Cambridge, before he was suspended in May.

Prosecuting for Royal Mail – which owns Parcelforce – Richard Brown said: "An investigation uncovered 10 postal packets and receipts from a variety of different companies, including Pabo, who sell sex toys and Figleaves, a women's lingerie firm.

Apple  is threatening to sue a sex shop over a vibrator that hooks up to an iPod and has similar advertising to that used in posters for the digital music player.

Apple is demanding that stores remove all posters for the gadget, called an iGasm.

"We hope this request to remove it immediately will prevent us having to consider further action," said Apple lawyers.

The Ann Summers neon-pink ads feature a sexy woman with wires coming out of her iPod and into her knickers, teasing "Go at it hard and fast with a pounding drum 'n' bass track or chill with ambient classic."

Apple lawyers claim the poster is a blatant rip-off of its famous iPod silhouette images

The News of the World  newspaper reports Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold saying: "Perhaps I can send them an iGasm to put a smile back on their faces!!

Rhianna the 22-year-old Rude Boy singer out shopping in Paris.. where she made a Ri-line, sorry, beeline to sex shop Toy's Me.

The star - who was in the French capital on her European tour without her new fella, baseball star Matt Kemp - disappeared into a scrum of assistants before she could be snapped making a purchase.

But it certainly looks like it tickled her fancy!

Giving new meaning to the term phone sex, a British company is selling software that transforms a cell phone into a sex toy.

Vibelet.com's  software, launched last week, turns certain Nokia cell phones with vibrating ring capabilities into a "discrete, vibrating massager."

"Its tender purring vibrations provide perfect company on even the loneliest winter nights!" champions the website.

"No, it's not a joke," said the developer, who asked to be known as "Zoe Walsh" rather than his real name. "That's one of our biggest problems, in fact. We had to delay the launch date to avoid April 1. It's a joke product, but it definitely works."

The software, which costs UKGP 1.50 (about $2.35), is downloaded straight to the phone via a WAP link. Once installed, it has just two controls: Start and Pause. While running, an image of a contented cat is displayed on the phone's screen.