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Students having a high old time at a Halloween party in Buffalo city were spooked by a mid-afternoon police raid and the confiscation of prodigious quantities of marijuana, reports The Buffalo News.

Why go in 2013? Making tracks

Who knew that George Lazenby quit James Bond after just the one film because he didn't believe the character could survive late-Sixties hippie culture? "Bond is a brute, and I will never play him again," he grandly announced soon after On Her Majesty's Secret Service was released in 1969. "Peace – that's the message now."

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From super-size with salted peanuts to chilli and Mexican lime, there's a slab of tastiness here for every sweet tooth

Next week the bursting chocolate shelves will be getting a new addition, Cadbury's Crispello, a bar made up of three wafer shells with a creamy centre and covered in their signature chocolate (a Cadbury's version of a Ferrero Rocher, by the sounds of it). It might seem as though Cadbury is constantly flogging fresh bars, but apparently this is the first new one to be launched since the 1990s (its other newcomers are all variants on the Dairy Milk theme, it seems).

Cadbury owns the colour purple – in chocolate packaging terms at least, a High Court judge has ruled.

Cadbury owns the colour purple – in chocolate packaging terms at least, a High Court judge has ruled.

Food manufacturers appear to have found a sweet spot in the Middle East, with exports from the UK up by more than a quarter to some Gulf countries this year.

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Merely thinking of chocolate may set pulses racing, but research suggests it can actually lower blood pressure.

A black bear went in and out of a Colorado sweet shop multiple times early one July morning, but he used the front door and didn't break a thing.

Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula, in a breakthrough suggesting it may have been used as a sauce with solid food.