Cadbury calls time on Christmas chocolate coins

Cost and 'fiddly' foil wrappings bring production to a halt as consumers turn to cheaper rivals

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Christmas stockings across the country will be left one item short this year, after Cadbury announced that it is to stop making chocolate coins.

Sales had been falling, the company said, because customers were choosing to buy cheap rival coins from Lidl, Aldi and Poundland instead.

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