My local chocolate manufacturer Cadbury (I can see the factory from my window and, sometimes, smell chocolate in the air!) is under threat from a hostile takeover from Kraft! If successful, it would mean that after 230 years the firm would become foreign owned and several local MP's have tabled a motion for Cadbury's iconic brands to remain British! Whether they are successful remains to be seen, but if the takeover goes ahead it will just be another in the long line of British icons that have become foreign owned - like HP Sauce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Manchester United to name but a few!
- Today in 1930 a US Patent was awarded to Albert Einstein and a former student for a version of which household appliance?
- What was the nickname of World War II General George S Patton (right) who was born today in 1885?
- Which African country gained independence from Portugal today in 1975?
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