413,793 chocolate bars have been stolen while in transit from a Nestlé production facility in Italy, destined for distribution in Poland.

The cargo, weighing 12 tonnes, disappeared en route and is believed to have been stolen with the company adding in a statement on Friday that “the vehicle and its load are still nowhere to be found”.

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A spokesperson for KitKat said: “Whilst we appreciate the criminals’ exceptional taste, the fact remains that cargo theft is an escalating issue for businesses of all sizes.

“With more sophisticated schemes being deployed on a regular basis, we have chosen to go public with our own experience in the hope that it raises awareness of an increasingly common criminal trend.”

The shipment has not been recovered, raising concerns that the KitKat bars may end up being sold through unofficial channels across Europe.

KitKat said that all products can be traced using the unique batch code assigned to individual bars, and that consumers, retailers and wholesalers would be able to identify if a product is part of the stolen shipment by scanning the on-pack batch numbers.

If a match is found, the scanner will be given clear instructions on how to alert the company.

The brand also told French news agency AFP that “the theft may lead to a shortage of KitKats appearing on shelf”, acknowledging that “consumers, unfortunately, may struggle to find their favourite chocolates ahead of Easter”.

German footwear retailer Deichmann has closed its doors in Davygate, York, after more than five years in the city.

The shop shut yesterday (March 28, 2026) after a sale period that began in mid-January, with stock at the shop reduced at least 25 per cent and some items marked down further.

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A spokesperson for the brand confirmed the closure to The Press in mid-January.

They said: “I’m confirming that we are unfortunately in the process of closing our store in York. We continue trading until 28th March 2026 and are keeping an eye on suitable alternative locations in York.”

Deichmann opened a new two-floor unit in 2020 after a £475,000 refurbishment, which came with the creation of 12 permanent jobs.

Hundreds of partygoers were forced to flee a dance club in southwestern Germany Sunday when a fire broke out in the early hours.

None of the 750 guests were injured in the incident in Kehl, a town near the French border, emergency services said.

Three people were treated at the scene for shock, police said.

The club was identified in local media posts as the K Club Kehl, which is a popular venue for hip-hop music. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

At least 80 personnel from the fire department, police, and emergency medical services attended the incident, German news agency dpa reported.

A fire at a nightclub in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve, which killed dozens of people, was linked by investigators to sparklers on Champagne bottles.

The future of the MAGA movement was once again in focus on Saturday as the results of a straw poll were announced at the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Matt Schlapp’s yearly Trumpfest was in Texas this year, eschewing its typical home in National Harbor, Maryland. A gathering of DC-area conservatives, the event is typically well-attended by the Tea Party wing of the GOP, while more mainstream Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill have long avoided it.

For 2028, the convention’s attendees are eyeing Vice President J.D. Vance as the likely successor to Donald Trump for control over the Republican Party, though the initial results suggest that the one-man dominance of the party’s leadership is finally coming to an end, at least as far as the party’s nominee is concerned.

Vance led Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the CPAC Straw Poll, the annual poll of the conference’s attendees, which the vice president won over MAGAworld puppeteer Steve Bannon last year by a more decisive margin.

Rubio trailed Vance by less than 20 points, 53 percent to 35 percent, in Saturday’s poll, with every other mentioned Republican at 2 percent of the vote or lower.

The poll’s results suggest that Trump’s own chosen running mate remains the obvious favorite among the president’s loyalists.

Vance’s is especially popular with younger voters in the party, while Rubio’s MAGA-fied traditional conservatism has its own sphere of support, which could result in a closely contested battle for control of the party in 2028.

CPAC’s straw poll hasn’t endorsed anyone besides Donald Trump since 2016, the year he first ran for office. Sen. Ted Cruz won the poll that year; a year prior, it was won by Sen. Rand Paul.

In 2021, 2022, and 2023, the president still ran away with the vote at the conservative conference, beating his closest rival, Ron DeSantis, by wide margins each time.

By the time his run for president was underway in 2024, he was back to dominating the polls with more than 90 percent of the vote.

DeSantis’s star has clearly faded within the Republican Party, and on Saturday, he tied Donald Trump Jr. at 2 percent support in the poll.

Vance’s rise and uncertain dominance of the post-Trump MAGA movement come as he has taken a public-facing role in the second Trump administration, with the clear aim of setting himself up as the next leader of American conservative politics.

That has led to risky moments for the vice president, including an on-camera shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in early 2025.

This year, his discomfort with the president’s military operations in Iran was reported, and his past opposition to interventionism has forced Vance to make an awkward about-face.

The vice president remains a relatively untested political candidate as well, which may complicate his bid for control of the party in Trump’s wake.

His 2022 bid for Senate was punctuated by the endorsement of Trump, whose support catapulted Vance into the lead and allowed the Hillbilly Elegy author to run away with the GOP nomination.

Vance’s greatest personal political victory took place later that year, when, with the support of Trump, he won a decisive victory over Tim Ryan, a now-former congressman, in a year when Joe Biden’s Democrats suffered midterm defeats in line with historical trends.

Vance has never run for office without Trump’s endorsement, boosting his chances with the MAGA base, and it’s not entirely clear that the vice president would automatically win Trump’s support in 2028 if Rubio is also in the running.

The vice president remains the clear favorite, however, for both Trump’s support and overall victory in the primary.

The value of Trump’s endorsement among independents in 2028 is also unclear, however, as the president’s approval rating continues to drop and now sits at just 41 percent in the latest Fox News poll, which was released this month. In other surveys, his approval rating is even lower.

Bath’s heavyweight bench came to the rescue as they narrowed the gap on Prem leaders Northampton Saints to just a point with a comeback win over Sale Sharks at the CorpAcq Stadium.

The champions’ rotated team trailed 19-7 at the interval but the cavalry changed the course of the contest and with England A hooker Kepueli Tuipulotu hugely influential they turned up the power to score four second-half tries.

The match-winning score came from another of the bench men – No 8 Alfie Barbeary – with nine minutes left.

Sale engineered a great position to steal the win late on but George Ford, playing his first game since February 21 after being dropped by England following the Six Nations defeat to Ireland, lost control of the ball and the chance slipped away.

It was Sharks’ ninth defeat of a disappointing league campaign.

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Match details 

Scoring sequence: 0-5 Frost try, 0-7 Carreras con, 5-7 O’Flaherty try, 7-7 Ford con, 12-7 du Preez try, 14-7 Ford con, 19-7 Cowan-Dickie try, 19-12 Hennessey try, 19-14 Carreras con, 19-19 Staddon try, 24-19 Roebuck try, 26-19 Ford con, 26-24, Tuipulotu try, 26-26 Carreras con, 26-31 Barbeary try.

Sale Sharks: J Carpenter; T Roebuck, R du Preez (M Louw 48), R Ma’asi-White, T O’Flaherty; G Ford, R Quirke (G Warr 60); B Rodd (R McEachran 60), L Cowan-Dickie (E Caine 60), J Harper (T Raymont 60), E van Rhyn, B Bamber, S Dugdale (D du Preez 57), N Jibulu (J Gilmore 72), J Vermeulen.

Bath: T de Glanville; J Cokanasiga, L Hennessey, C Redpath, W Muir; S Carreras, T Carr-Smith (B van der Linde 60); S Kirk (B Obano 35), D Frost (K Tuipulotu 41), V Sela (T du Toit 35), W Jeanes (E Richards 53), R Molony (C Ewels 54-72), T Hill, E Staddon, M Reid (A Barbeary 60).

Referee: L Pearce.

Dates for putting out the bins over the Easter bank holiday may change in your area

Easter is here, meaning it’s the time of year to indulge in lots of chocolate and hot cross buns. It’s also the time to enjoy a few days off as there is the long weekend for bank holiday.

This year, Good Friday is on April 3, with Easter Monday on April 6. The day you put out the bins may change over the bank holiday weekend in Cambridgeshire.

Here are the days you will need to put your bins out over the bank holiday, depending on your council area:

Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council

Those living in the Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council areas would normally expect to have their bins collected on Friday, April 3. However, this has been changed to Monday, March 30.

Fenland District Council

From Friday, April 3, people living in Fenland will have their bins collected a day later, with household waste bins set to be collected on Saturday, April 4, instead of Good Friday. Normal bin collections will resume from April 13.

Huntingdonshire District Council

Those living in the Huntingdonshire District Council area will see no changes to their bin collection dates over Easter. Bins will be collected on Monday, April 6.

East Cambridgeshire District Council

Dates for bins being collected in the East Cambridgeshire District Council area have been changed for several days. These are:

• Friday, April 3 will be collected on Tuesday, April 7;
• Monday, April 6 will be collected on Wednesday, April 8;
• Tuesday, April 7 will be collected on Thursday, April 9;
• Wednesday, April 8 will be collected on Friday, April 10;
• Thursday, April 9 will be collected on Saturday, April 11;
• Friday, April 10 will be collected on Monday, April 13;
• Monday, April 13 will be collected on Tuesday, April 14;
• Tuesday, April 14 will be collected on Wednesday, April 15;
• Wednesday, April 15 will be collected on Thursday, April 16;
• Thursday, April 16 will be collected on Friday, April 17;
• Friday, April 17 will be collected on Saturday, April 18.

Peterborough City Council

People living in the Peterborough area will have their bins collected as normal on Friday, April 3. Bins are not collected on Monday, so Easter Monday will not be affected.

Susan Rae, 58, lost over 40 pounds using the Simple app’s intermittent fasting approach, describing it as a ‘total life-changing’ experience

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User Susan Rae, 58, has experienced incredible results with Simple , and she said: “I have lost over 40 pounds and 40 inches from my body using the Simple app.”

What began as a casual download quickly evolved into a complete lifestyle shift. She continued: “I started using it 284 days ago, when I found it on Facebook, and I downloaded it, thinking it was going to be an app for women over 40 to do yoga, and I quickly found the intermittent fasting component and things took off from there.”

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Within just a couple of months, she had already achieved her target . “It started in December, and by February, I had hit my goal weight,” she explained, adding that she has since gone even further without feeling restricted, reports the Mirror .

“I’m 15 pounds less than my goal weight today through no effort, no grinding, no obsessing.” Like many, Susan had battled with her weight for years and had growing health concerns before trying the app. She said her cholesterol had been rising and her blood sugar levels were becoming a concern, but since making the switch to Simple, she has noticed significant improvements.

“My energy has been through the roof. I feel a million times better,” she said. At the core of the app is its personalised approach. After taking a short quiz, users receive a tailored plan designed around their goals, lifestyle and preferences. It includes features such as intermittent fasting tracking, daily workout plans and easy food logging, whether by typing, voice or simply taking a photo.

A standout feature is Avo, the app’s AI-powered coach, which provides real-time advice, recipe ideas and support. Susan described it as a game-changer in helping her stay on track and make better choices without feeling deprived.

The platform also avoids rigid dieting rules, instead focusing on behaviour changes and sustainable habits. Users are encouraged to build routines that work for them, making it easier to maintain results long-term rather than slipping back into old patterns. Of course, intermittent fasting may not work for everyone but Susan has achieved impressive results.

Speaking about her advice to others, Susan added: “Lean in, lean into the program, lean into the community if you enjoy that stuff. You can do this, and it will be so worth it. Total life-changing, game-changing experience.”

She added: “I want you to know that if I can do it, anyone can do it, because I have spent a lifetime struggling with weight and trying to find something that felt easy enough to continue.”

For an alternative, there’s Noom , a weight loss platform that focuses on mindful eating, not strict diets. Highly scientific, Noom offers plenty of support to clients, stating it creates ‘fun’ personalised courses for people – with pricing depending on the plan and the individual.

Or there’s MyFitnessPal – a food and fitness tracker designed to help people meet their targets and monitor their nutritional intake. There are premium options, but also some free sections available on the app.

Those who are using Simple shared their views on Trustpilot, too, with one person saying: “This app is one of the easiest ones to see if your food is on target without counting calories. It also reminds you when your eating window that you chose starts and ends. Must say it’s worth picking a coach. Really positive experience and gives you ideas on how to tweak what you eat to make it better for a balanced meal.”

Another user shared their progress, stating: “Absolutely amazing app. I have lost over one stone using this. There is always help at hand when I had my struggles. The app is very easy to use. Love it.”

One individual outlined what they’d like to see improved, saying: “Honestly a super supportive app that doesn’t make me feel bad if I miss a day or something. I do wish it had more options for drinks (lemonade for example is hard to track accurately) or an option to write in a drink or activities. Otherwise it’s great.”

However, another user was particularly impressed with the customer service, writing: “Results are key in my 5-star review. The excellent customer service is a HUGE plus; and the intuitive, interactive interface actively encourages users to try harder, without shaming. A few tweaks to customisation (diet options, exercise editing) will given an even richer experience.”

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