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A bid by Nestle to register the shape of the four-finger KitKat chocolate bar as a trademark has been given the thumbs down by Court of Appeal judges. Nestle bosses mounted a challenge at the Court of Appeal in London after a High Court judge ruled against them. They say the KitKat shape is ‘’iconic’’ and deserves protection. Mr Justice Arnold analysed Nestle’s application after rival Cadbury objected and considered issues relating to the ‘’distinctive character’’ of the ‘’threedimensional shape’’.

Police say an Ohio officer suffered an accidental overdose after a drug arrest when he touched powder on his shirt without realising it was the powerful opioid fentanyl. He was treated with an overdose reversal drug after brushing off the powder with his hand and passing out in East Liverpool, 85 miles south east of Cleveland near the Pennsylvania border. Fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin, and a few specks can kill an adult. East Liverpool Police Captain Patrick Wright said the officer followed protocol and wore gloves and a mask when searching a car during the drug arrest, but later instinctively wiped his shirt when another officer noticed powder on it.

A man in Vienna turned up at a wastedisposal site with an apparently live Second World War-era hand grenade. The object was too much to handle even for refuse collectors specialising in environmentally dangerous materials. Police say employees at the site turned away the man, who then went to a police station and deposited the grenade on a desk. A police statement said officers there gingerly took it outside where it was taken away by specialists.