Britain's sweetest job?

It’s a job that would make any chocoholic melt with envy; eating up to 130 bars of chocolate a week working as an Easter egg taster for Marks and Spencer.

This is the delectable task that awaits Alex Emerson-White every week – consuming up to 13lbs of chocolate a week – and getting paid for it. ‘It varies in terms of week-to-week but I can eat 50 or 60 pieces of chocolate, it all adds up to about five kilos. I can't complain, I have a brilliant job where I get to eat chocolate all day’ she says.

It’s all in a day’s work for the 27-year-old Londoner, as she roams the world searching for the perfect ingredients for the store’s confectionary, most of which are hand-crafted in the UK or Ireland.