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EASTER is over for another year, but for one chocolate shop in the south of England the memory lingers on with an expensive pile of useless Easter eggs.

The shop’s speciality is to use a clever machine to trace a child’s – or adult’s – name on the chocolate shell in white icing. Customers take in a list of names – Lucy, Jake, William, Suzanne and so on – then go off to do the shopping and come back an hour later to pick up the personalised eggs.

A colleague was in the shop over Easter to order some of these eggs for younger…

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