A CHOCOLATE company was banned by a council from handing out Yorkie bars after complaints that its advertising campaign was sexist.

Representatives from Nestle Rowntree were handing out Yorkies to men only in Liverpool city centre when a woman council worker made an official complaint.

"The Yorkie team applied to give samples, but they did not inform us they would only give them to men," said a Liverpool City Council spokesman. "We think Yorkie bars should be for girls as well so we asked them if they would mind not discriminating and give them to everyone. They refused and we asked them to leave."