Cadbury’s annual ‘Inventor’ competition is back this summer – with three new fan-made Dairy Milk bars hitting shop shelves across the UK.
The iconic British chocolate brand is spoiling those with a sweet tooth by introducing a trio of new flavours to its classic Dairy Milk range. But, as part of the popular competition, Cadbury is asking chocolate fans to ‘Be The Judge’ of this year’s new Inventor bars and make the final verdict of which flavour gets to stay on supermarket shelves.
Now in its third year, the Cadbury Inventor competition challenges the nation to come up with new and exciting flavours.
Over 180,000 entries were submitted by budding inventors across the UK and Ireland this year.
The new Dairy Milk bars – which are now available to get your hands on – are Roxy’s Cadbury Dairy Milk Fizzing Cherry, Josh’s Cadbury Dairy Milk Banoffee Nut Crumble, and Sophie’s Cadbury Dairy Milk No Frownie Brownie.
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The Fizzing Cherry flavoured-bar contains pieces of cherry, popping candy and biscuits, while the Banoffee Nut Crumble is made up of fudge pieces, golden almond caramel and biscuit, and the No Frownie Brownie includes chocolate brownie chunks, salted caramel chips and biscuits.
Roxy’s Fizzing Cherry contains pieces of cherry, popping candy and biscuits / Credit: Cadbury UKJosh’s Banoffee Nut Crumble is made up of fudge pieces, golden almond caramel and biscuit / Credit: Cadbury UK
Cadbury is asking fans to taste each chocolate bar and pick their favourite based on a listing of tasting criteria, which features everything from the design of the packaging and the smell of the chocolate, right to the texture, feeling, nostalgia factor, and of course the taste.
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It’ll be a tricky decision, but someone’s got to make it.
“We know the Cadbury Inventor competition is a fan-favourite because it allows for delicious new ingredients and flavours to be explored and tasted,” said Pippa Rodgers, Brand Manager at Cadbury UK.
“This year has really set the bar high.
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“Together with Josh, Roxy and Sophie, we couldn’t be more excited to share the three delicious Cadbury Dairy Milk flavours with the nation – but sadly there can only be one winner [and now] it’s time for us to put it to our experts, the fans, to ‘Be The Judge’ and decide what bar is worthy of returning to supermarket shelves next year.”
Sophie’s No Frownie Brownie includes chocolate brownie chunks, salted caramel chips and biscuits / Credit: Cadbury UK
The three new Dairy Milk bars are now stocked at all major supermarket retailers across the UK, and you can cast your votes online via the Cadbury Inventor website here.
You can vote for your favourite to be crowned the winner up until 5 September 2021.
Stockport County defender Brad Hills ruled out for the rest of the season
Danny Jones
In a big blow to their promotion push, Stockport County have been hit with a major injury and loss to their first-team squad, as defender Brad Hills has been ruled out for what looks to be the remainder of the season and then some.
Not what Hatters will want to hear with crunch-time in and around the playoffs now well underway.
Having emerged as even more of a starring centre-back this year, following his initial loan spell with the club during the previous campaign, Brad Hills has arguably been one of Stockport’s best and most reliable players in 2025/26 thus far – but not County will have to do without him.
Although the exact severity is yet to be fully revealed, the former Norwich City youth academy graduate is said to have hurt his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Confirming the news on social media, the Greater Manchester side stated: “We regret to inform supporters that Brad Hills sustained an ACL injury in Saturday’s draw at Luton Town that will rule him out for the foreseeable future.
“Our full focus is on supporting Brad throughout his recovery – we know he’ll come back stronger”
For anyone unaware, ACL tears/ruptures are among some of the worst injuries in football, and depending on the extent of the damage, it can take anywhere between six months and a full year to bounce back.
Safe to say, therefore, that supporters have been left gutted by the update, with one commenting, “Awful, awful news”; another simply wrote, “FFS”.
After typing a very long expletive following the show news, fan podcast The Scarf Bergara Wore wrote: “Wishing Bradley Hills a speedy recovery – come back stronger!
Since becoming a permanent signing back in August, he’s earned multiple man-of-the-match awards in blue and white, not to mention contributed to a decent number of clean sheets. He’ll be a big miss in their backline.
While it’s no doubt a big setback as the League One team looks to get promoted into the Championship, the absence could see manager Dave Challinor reshuffle the pack and perhaps even the formation for the remaining fixtures.
One option is Louie Barry, who – depending on the setup – could finally be set for a return to the pitch after he was signed on a third loan deal this past January, but is still continuing his own rehab following a knee operation.
Put it this way, with not many games left, lots of County fans are probably wishing that the pending and potential further changes in the EFL could have come sooner…
Embrace announce intimate live show in beloved Bury music venue
Danny Jones
British alternative veterans Embrace have announced another intimate show here in Greater Manchester, only this time it’s over in Bury at a stunning small-cap arts venue.
It’s not often you get to see such a long-standing band play outside of the city centre so far into their career, especially in gorgeous grassroots spaces like this one.
A fellow Northern outfit, they’ve often been lumped in with that ‘post-Britpop’ era of music, and plenty throw around the so-called ‘dad rock’ label, but honestly, we couldn’t care either way: they remain among the UK’s perennially underappreciated underdogs that never get old, as far as we’re concerned.
Revealing a handful of new live dates for their album launch this summer, they’ll be making just two appearances in the North West on the run.
Writing in the post, the group said: “We’ve lined up a run of exclusive UK dates in venues that are some of the smallest we’ve played in years. It’s going to be special, but capacity is extremely limited.”
As you can see, besides the Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool, the only other place in this region where they’re set to play for this mini tour is The Met over in Bury.
One of the most beautiful gig spots, not just in the town but in all the 10 boroughs, for our money, the room only holds around 400 standing and roughly 250 seats.
For seasoned artists like this lot, who are more used to playing big festival stages and big domestic headline tours – which they’re also doing later this year – it’s sure to be a special night.
Toasting the release of their ninth studio LP, Avalanche, this spin-off on the tried and tested in-store format wouldn’t be possible without the help of local record store, Wax and Beans, who are promoting and hosting the show.
But we can’t lie, there’s something about the idea of seeing them decades on from when they first tightly-packed out crowds of this size.
If you want to be part of the Embrace album launch tour, you can get ready to grab your tickets at 10am this Friday, 27 March, right HERE. And speaking of great record shops…
Emily Sergeant -
22nd June 2021 
