Coffee cup feud settled

Ottawa - A feud over a discarded coffee cup worth thousands of dollars in a fastfood chain contest has been settled in favour of a 10-year old girl, ending weeks of national debate in Canada over who should claim the prize.

"We have awarded an SUV to the parent of one of the little girls in Quebec (who contested ownership of the cup)," Jodi Bond, a spokesperson for the Tim Hortons coffee chain, told AFP on Wednesday.

Last month, the 10-year-old girl found the prize-winning coffee cup in the garbage at her Montreal area school, but was unable to "rrroll up the rim" to determine if it was a winner, so she asked an older girl for help.

The annual promotion urges coffee drinkers to check under the rim to look for millions of dollars in prizes, including a brand new Toyota sport utility vehicle worth C$28 000.

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