COCA-COLA’s ALCOHOLIC SECRET RECIPE REVEALED?
Coca-Cola's secret recipe has been let out of the bottle? 'Coke recipe' found in a 130-year-old notebook belonging to inventor's best friend.
For almost 125 years, the secrecy surrounding the recipe for Coca-Cola has been one of the world's great marketing ploys. As the story goes, the fizzy drink's famous "Merchandise 7X" flavourings have remained unchanged since they were concocted in 1886 and the recipe is today entrusted only to two Coke executives,
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neither of whom can travel on the same plane for fear the secret goes down with them. The seven-ingredient formula was created by John Pemberton, an Atlanta chemist and former Confederate army officer who crafted cough medicines and other concoctions in his spare time. In 1887, he sold the recipe to a businessman, Asa Griggs, who immediately placed it for safekeeping in the then Georgia Trust bank. The secret formula was in back issue of Pemberton's
local paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tucked away on an inside page 28 of the 8 February 1979 edition. The column was based on an old leather-bound notebook that belonged to Pemberton's best friend and fellow Atlanta chemist, RR Evans. Found in the notebook had been handed down the generations until it reached a chemist in Georgia called Everett Beal, whose widow still possesses it. Turn to Page 4
Schools repair budgets 'slashed' Schools will see their budgets for maintenance and repairs slashed by 80% next year as a result of Government cuts, Labour said. Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham accused Education Secretary Michael Gove of sending schools back to the "dark ages" of crumbling classrooms and inadequate equipment. Research commissioned from the independent House of Commons Library found that secondary schools would lose on average 86,000 from their budget for building work, repairs and computers. Primary schools will lose an average of ÂŁ26,000. "We are looking at a return to the bad old days of the 1980s when children tried to learn in crumbling classrooms with equipment not up to the job," Mr Burnham
said. "With these cuts Michael Gove is sending schools back to the dark ages." Aides to Mr Gove said that the Government had already announced that the funds directly allocated to schools would be "much lower" next year. "The reality is that on average we will be spending more on education capital over the next four years than Labour did in its first two terms," one aide said. "But unlike Labour we will be doing it efficiently and quickly and targeting schools most in need. Waste was endemic in Labour's school building programme. "We have prioritised frontline education spending and money for the poorest children rather than extravagant and expensive buildings."
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