It's been a while since the last chocolate news update, first things first though. There's a new feature for Chocolate Review users who also use Facebook. Every bar and manufacturer now has a Like button, so not only can you vote on your favourite bars you can also show your friends you 'like' them.

Back to the news, Cadbury's been popular again - first it was nominated the nation's favourite brand, the former chief exec of Cadbury has left with a tasty £40m payout, they've launched the new Crunchie Rocks (which are sadly a bit rubbish), for some crazy reason they've also launched Wispa Duo (does anyone think this is worth while?), there's concern that Kraft's promotion of Milka will undermine Dairy Milk, although Kraft is closing it's UK HQ and moving to Cadburys HQ, as expected Warren Buffett has cut his stake in Kraft because of the Cadbury merger, Kraft has had more criticism over its pledge to keep the Somerdale factory open, the Cadburys Caramel bunny is returning to promote Caramel Nibbles and after 50 years has changed the promotion of Flake and promptly been threatened with legal action.

In other legal troubles Mars is consdering action against Nestle over the Kit Kat cross your fingers campaign, but never mind that you really want to try and make your own 46000 calorie Kit Kat bar :-) and wonder why on earth they're making a Duo version of Kit Kat Chunky Caramel. Also here's a run down of the bizarre Japanese Kit Kat flavours.

How about making your own chocolate bars, that's the plan from Chocomize (USA only at the moment sadly), if you prefer to be a bit more hands-on and can't manage the mega kit kat above, then how about this mega oreo, or make your own pop tarts?

Finally a lovely tale about the ideal gift for the Apple fan who likes chocolate.

Galaxy Counters are now on Chocolate Review for you to vote on (for those of you lucky enough to have already had some). Don't forget to submit 10 new or updated votes at www.chocolatereview.co.uk before midday Sunday for your chance to get a free bag of Counters for yourself. You can also increase your chances of getting free Counters by entering Cinabar's competition here or Jim's competition here.

Some more chocolate news for April:

• Cadbury might be creating their own cafes - made even better by the possibility of giant Curly Wurlys!
• Good luck to Reading University who are researching into diseases that affect cocoa plants
• Hopefully not what we have to look forward to with Cadbury's new owners
• Cadbury employees also have the terrible choice of leaving the pension scheme or having a pay freeze
• In celebration of the World Cup Mars is changing wrappers (supposedly for the first time in 78 years)

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

The 'other' great season of chocolate consumption is upon us. To celebrate we've got a little competition!

Yes Galaxy Counters will very soon be back for the first time since the eighties. To celebrate this we have a bag to give away! For your chance to win 130g of Galaxy goodness simply login to www.chocolatereview.co.uk and vote for at least 10 products between now and 12 midday next Sunday (11th April). If you haven't tried any new chocolate (shame on you) you can always review and update 10 of your existing votes. Sorry Facebook visitors aren't included in the competition this time, only votes logged at www.chocolatereview.co.uk count. The winner of the bag will be the first randomly selected from all those who have logged at least 10 new or updated votes between the above times (winner will be notified via e-mail later on the 11th). Good Luck.

When you go to the chocolate page you'll now see (when logged in) that your number of products voted for, rank label and rank relative to other voters is displayed. Please let us know in the forum what you think of this feature (and any other features you'd like to see).

On with some news:

• Just as we all knew chocolate is good for you (albeit in limited amounts)
• Adding insult to injury the CEO of Kraft is given a massive pay rise
• It may not be the most attractive thing but how about a dress made from 20kg of chocolate?
• The Guardian reckon we're hopelessly addicted to cheap chocolate (probably true)
• The big four confectionary companies in the US are being sued for price fixing
• Easter eggs have shrunk and prices have gone down or up (depending on who you listen to), it's no big deal though is it?
• The Moro bar (a kind of Mars bar but made by Cadbury) is now made in Australia not New Zealand and they're asking for consumer feedback about the quality after the move (shame we're never asked such things here in Europe).

That's all for now. I hope you've all got lots of lovely eggs to tuck into today. Mrs ChocAdmin and I will be munching our way through a rather lovely Hotel Chocolat Rocky Road to Caramel.

Some really big chocolate news for April, Mars will continue their dominance of the 'bag' market because Galaxy Counters are coming back!!

The Cadbury<>Kraft saga is still going, Kraft have had to answer questions from MPs after continuing with the closure of the Keynsham factory (despite suggestions they would not before the takeover).The result is, they're sorry. It's all the fault of Curly Wurly's apparently.

Also with Cadbury, their new Flake advert will sadly never see the light of day. As it's been deemed too naughty :-)

What we will see though is the new design of wrapper for Fry's cream products (quite a nice update, now if they could bring back 5 flavours).

A Welsh firm (currently making novelty sweets for kids) has bought the remains of Kshocolat.

Greanpeace has launched a rather savage attack on Nestle over deforestation for palm oil production. Why they've singled out Nestle and Kit Kat and not other palm oil users is unclear.

Mars has started constructing a new chocolate research facility - this can mean only good things for the wonderful UK market.