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Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate
Posted onMcVitie’s Penguin and Club bars are no longer classed as chocolate after rising cocoa prices led the makers to switch to using other ingredients. Club bars had previously been marketed under the slogan: “If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club”. But both treats are now described as “chocolate flavour”…
Rising US prices could widen divide between haves and have-nots
Posted onDanielle KayeBusiness reporter Danielle Kaye/BBC Yanique Clarke says “prices are really drastically high” for meat, vegetables and fruit There’s a divide in the US economy between the haves and the have-nots. And accelerating inflation, driven in part by tariffs, could make it worse. Government data points to the early stages of businesses passing on the…
Portsmouth Water installs huge wall at Havant Thicket reservoir
Posted onA major engineering milestone has been reached on what is set to become the UK’s first new reservoir in more than three decades. Portsmouth Water said teams at Havant Thicket Reservoir installed a 20‑tonne steel cut‑off wall during a continuous 72‑hour operation at the start of the year. The wall, which is 13m (43ft) high…
