‘Swissness’ rules force Toblerone rebrand
And other stories from the stranger side of life
Toblerone will remove the Matterhorn mountain peak from its packaging due to strict rules about “Swissness”, said the BBC. The pyramid-shaped bar, which mirrors the Alpine peak, will undergo a labelling revamp and include its founder’s signature when some of the chocolate’s production is moved from Switzerland to Slovakia. Rules mean that national symbols are not allowed to be used to promote milk-based products that are not made exclusively in Switzerland.
‘Dead’ woman found alive after 33 years
A woman who was declared legally dead after disappearing more than three decades ago has turned up alive in Puerto Rico, reported Sky News. Patricia Kopta, now 83, who had last been seen in Pennsylvania in 1992, has been living in a nursing home after she was taken in as a “person in need” seven years after she disappeared. “It’s a relief knowing that she’s not laying in a ditch somewhere, or murdered somewhere,” said her husband.
Bus driver saves sheep on first day
A sheep spotted running loose on a road was given a lift back to its owner by a bus driver on her first day on the job. Brighton & Hove Buses said Martine Patey was travelling to Eastbourne for her first Rail Replacement bus duty when she spotted a sheep running loose on the A27 road. After saving the sheep, she continued on to Eastbourne and was only one minute late, reported UPI.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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