Disappearance of chocolate-covered treats from shelves prompts anger as well as an outpouring of nostalgia

A famous 1981 French advert for Cadbury Fingers showed a boy hiding a box of the biscuits behind his back while his mother demands to know if he has eaten them all. “ Non , non ,” he insists, his nose growing, Pinocchio-like, with each denial.

The marketing slogan was: “Cadbury, the chocolate biscuit that doesn’t cheat.”

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Giantkillers Auxerre are flying high after a shock 3-1 victory over touted title challengers Marseille at the Vélodrome

By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News

A football club has the ability to put a town on the map. From a personal standpoint, revealing my Boltonian origins abroad will invariably elicit a reference to Bolton Wanderers; the town and the club are inseparable, indiscernible, especially internationally. Auxerre, a small village south of Paris, comprised of just over 37,000 inhabitants is the French equivalent.

It was Guy Roux, the inexhaustible former manager of L’AJA who put them there, winning a league title, reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League and winning the Coupe de France on four occasions across his 44-year tenure.

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Nicholas Wayne Hamlett arrested almost one month after police found body of Steven Lloyd of Tennessee

Authorities in South Carolina have captured a man who allegedly murdered a hiker in woodlands in Tennessee then attempted to disguise the killing as a bear attack.

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was arrested in Columbia on Sunday night almost one month after police found the body of the hiker, Steven Lloyd of Knoxville, Tennessee, close to the Cherahola Skyway in Monroe county, 80 miles north-east of Chattanooga.

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An Australian-led study using seal-shaped decoys found underside lighting disrupted ability of great whites to see silhouettes against sunlight above

Using LED lighting on the underside of surfboards or kayaks could deter great white shark attacks, new research suggests.

In an Australian-led study using seal-shaped decoys, underside lighting disrupted the ability of great whites to see silhouettes against the sunlight above, reducing the rates at which the sharks followed and attacked the artificial prey. The brighter the lights, the more effective the deterrent was.

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His wife died, he became a single parent and his next marriage swiftly ended. After these trials, the hugely acclaimed singer-songwriter explains why he’s turning outward to consider the world around him

For almost two decades, Phil Elverum’s life centred around performing and recording music. First as the Microphones and then as Mount Eerie, he had accumulated a catalogue of songs through which he made sense of his world, written with a diaristic honesty that won him a loyal following. But in July 2016, after the death of his wife, the cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée, a distraught Elverum began “rejecting my life’s work” and focused on single parenthood with their daughter, Agathe.

From his home in Anacortes, Washington, Elverum reflects on those darkest days. “Geneviève and I had both been artists, obsessed with our creative lives,” he says. “That was our focus, our devotion, our identity. But when she died, I asked myself: why had drawing at a table 16 hours a day or making all these dinky little LPs been so important to us? I questioned the existential value of art and music and poetry. These had been my tools to understand life. But when Geneviève died, they felt useless to me.”

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Mobbed, groped, overworked, paid a pittance and given little time off … ahead of a major TV series about boybands, former members of 5ive and 911 reveal what success was really like for many

‘People often don’t get it,” says Ritchie Neville. “They think being in a famous band is a dream. But I’ve had situations where I’m out with friends and, when I start talking, jaws drop to the floor. They’re like, ‘Oh my god, is that really what it was like?’”

Neville was a member of mega boyband 5ive. Formed in 1997, the five-piece were famous for singles such as Got the Feelin’, When the Lights Go Out and Slam Dunk (Da Funk). And Neville is one of many former boybanders taking part in a new documentary series about the era when ab flashes, knee slides and vocal harmonies ruled.

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Her vessels are often inspired by people’s gestures in the supermarket – and have sold for six-figure sums. She talks about childhood bereavement, why she hated making ads – and the spiritual significance of cooking pots

Stare at one of Magdalene Odundo ’s vessels for long enough and you start to wonder if you might just have seen it breathe, its rounded belly imperceptibly expanding. The ceramic artist has often talked about the “body-ness”, as she puts it, of her pots, but standing close to one is to be struck by how alive they feel. Her current London show, comprising six vessels, is Odundo’s first solo exhibition in the capital for 20 years. It’s a continuation of her show earlier this year at Houghton Hall, the stately home in Norfolk. Odundo has found new recognition in recent years – a significant 2019 Hepworth Wakefield exhibition , and she showed at this year’s Venice Biennale. Her work set a new record price for a living ceramicist when one of her vessels sold for £200,000 in 2020, the same year she was made a dame.

If Odundo’s professional life is at a high, her personal life has been difficult in recent months, after a period of ill health, and recovery from surgery. It has been tough, she says, but adds with a laugh: “I’m still standing – just about.” Her mobility has been affected, and she thinks it will be another few months before she can get back to her clay. How is she coping? “Not very well,” she says with a smile – we’re talking over Zoom, Odundo at home in Farnham, Surrey. Although she says she’s tired, she laughs often.

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The Jennings Creek wildfire has burned more than 3,000 acres and caused the death of at least one person

Fire crews are continuing to battle a large wildfire spreading across New Jersey and New York amid an increase in wildfires in the north-eastern US.

Much of the region is currently facing a drought and dry conditions across almost the whole country have made wildfires a more frequent occurrence, with windy periods further exacerbating potential or existing fires.

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US government wrote to Israel a month ago threatening sanctions if there was no increase in humanitarian supplies

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The amount of aid reaching Gaza has dropped to the lowest level since December, official Israeli figures show, despite the US having issued a 30-day ultimatum last month threatening sanctions if there was no increase in humanitarian supplies reaching the territory.

The ultimatum was delivered on 13 October, so will expire on Tuesday or Wednesday. It is unclear what measures Israel’s apparent failure to fulfil US demands will trigger, but they may include a temporary halt to the supply of some munitions or other military assistance.

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