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The soft drink brand Lilt - famously advertised for its "totally tropical taste" - is being scrapped after 50 years and rebranded.




From Tuesday it will be known as Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit, according to its owner the Coca Cola Company.

The firm stressed the drink's taste and ingredients would not change.

But fans - many of whom appeared to associate Lilt with memories of their youth - took to social media to express their dismay.

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But fans - many of whom appeared to associate Lilt with memories of their youth - took to social media to express their dismay.

Fangirl Three wrote:You're getting fainter.

Joby Pool used a stolen tractor to tow away the chocolate and is expected to be imprisoned for about two years

‘Don’t cook cheese on toast in sideways toasters’, London Fire Brigade warns after blaze at university halls

A fire broke out at halls in south-east London after a student tried the ‘unsafe’ method

LFB said the blaze began when a student attempted to make cheese on toast inside a toaster that had been placed on its side, then left the room.

Around 25 firefighters spent approximately 40 minutes tackling the fire, which was under control by about 11.20am.

It is not the first time LFB has been forced to issue a warning about the method of cooking cheese on toast

In 2015, it urged people not to use the technique after celebrity chef Jamie Oliver mentioned it in a Guardian article about making toast.

“In the past, I have turned the toaster on its side, put cheese on bread and slid it in so it toasts on one side and melts on the other,” he wrote in the piece.

“It’s a bit of a jiggle but it works.”

Italian restaurant charges customer €2 to cut a sandwich in half

An Italian cafe has gone viral after slapping a surcharge on a patron who wanted to share his lunch with his girlfriend. But there’s more to it than mere effrontery

The customer just wanted to share the sandwich with his girlfriend, but when the bill arrived it listed the mysterious service “diviso a metà” at the price of €2.

A snapshot of the receipt went viral, prompting Italian newspapers to question the owner of the cafe – Bar Pace in Lake Como – who defended the surcharge. “To cut it in half took us some time, and work must be paid for,” she said.