You can order GIANT buckets or bags of premium quality pick n mix, filled with sweets of your choosing, to be delivered to your home this Christmas.
Once you’ve made your selection, you can add a custom festive message or picture to your bucket or bag of sweets, free of charge for that personal touch.
Sweet Cheeks, a business based here in Greater Manchester, is also joining in with the massive Black Friday discounts and is slashing prices on their website right now.
Through its easy to use website, you can choose from classic pick n mix sweets like fizzy cherries, cola bottles, giant strawberries, jelly snakes, fried eggs and sour dummies.
Credit: Sweet Cheeks
There’s also giant dolphins, gummy meerkats and jelly Minions up for grabs, as well as some festive Christmasthemed sweets. In fact, you can select your own custom mix from over 100 different varieties of sweets.
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Having had masses of the sweets delivered to The Manc office, we can wholeheartedly vouch for them being absolutely delicious, with varieties of pick n mix we didn’t even know existed. They even had The Manc branding on the bags and buckets.
Stockport-based Sweet Cheeks stocks options to cater to vegans, vegetarians and people with gluten or dairy allergies too.
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For Black Friday, which falls on 25 November this year, Sweet Cheeks will be offering a 25% discount, so you can get your Secret Santa gifts or stocking fillers sorted.
The family-run business was first launched during lockdown in 2020. Owner Donna McCafferty told The Manc it was ‘a way for people to send a sweet little customised message or picture on custom bags or buckets of sweets to help cheer people up when they were not allowed to meet up’.
She continued: “It really helped put a smile on people’s faces during the hard times and we have continued to do this for people since then.
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“We do get quite a few very cheeky messages from time to time too! ‘I love you Chippy Tits’, ‘Sorry for being such a d*ck’, and ‘I love you more than fizzy cola bottles’ being some that stick in our minds.”
Sweet Cheeks pack all their orders fresh on the day of ordering, ready for delivery all over the UK – including free delivery in the SK6 postcode in Stockport.
You can browse the massive range of pick n mix sweets and place your order at www.sweetcheeks.store.
You can follow Sweet Cheeks on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok at @sweetcheekspicknmix.
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Sweet Cheeks is also doing bespoke corporate orders for events.
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Manchester’s iconic Rylands building is being reborn – and the developers want to hear from you
Daisy Jackson
Manchester’s iconic Rylands building, formerly home to the Debenhams department store, is being reborn.
And now the developers working on its new chapter want Mancunians to weigh in on which businesses we want to see in the landmark building.
The transformation of Rylands Manchester will honour the heritage character of the building, which dates back to 1932, but will introduce contemporary design and a list of residents that’s bang up to date for our modern city centre.
The plans include building a four-storey extension with panoramic city views and a bright, central atrium. When it completes, this Grade II-listed art deco building will bring together workspace, retail, and leisure, right at the beating heart of town between the Northern Quarter, Piccadilly, Manchester Arndale, and the central business district.
Standing proudly at the top of Market Street, this next era for Rylands will establish it as an exciting new destination in the heart of town when its phased completion begins from late 2026.
Already confirmed to be moving in is Market Place Food Hall with its first northern location, which has signed on for a 15 year lease to occupy the ground floor of Rylands.
Market Place Food Hall is already confirmed to be moving into RylandsRylands is entering a new era
But now Rylands are putting it back to locals to ask what shops, restaurants, or cafes we’d love to see moving in.
It could be a high street hero you’ve loved for years, an independent business you’ve fallen for, or a foodie spot you return to time and time again.
Your ideas could help to shape the future of this landmark building and make it a destination us Mancs can be proud of.
And if you submit your suggestions in the comments of THIS Instagram post, you could be in with a chance of winning a £100 Love2Shop voucher (make sure you’re following @Rylands_manchester for a chance to win).
Science and Industry Museum announces new major exhibition taking visitors on an ‘epic space adventure’
Emily Sergeant
A major new exhibition taking visitors on an ‘epic space adventure’ is making its world premiere in Manchester next year.
Horrible Science: Cosmic Chaos will invite visitors to explore our wondrous Solar System when it launches at the Science and Industry Museum next February.
Fresh off-the-back of the new BBC Children’s and Education TV show, Horrible Science, the ‘thrilling’ new exhibition will encourage visitors to ‘do science the horrible way’, and join both scientists and supervillains to unveil the secrets of space.
The new exhibition will propel families up into space where mystery, intrigue, and rocket-loads of silly and surprising science await. You’ll get to venture through a series of cosmic zones, walk in the shoes of astronauts, explore the life-giving energy of the sun, marvel at mysterious moons, and discover far-off weird worlds.
Left teetering on the edge of our Solar System, explorers will then find themselves staring into the dark depths of space, on the lookout for any extra-terrestrial life that could be staring back.
Whether its sniffing astronauts’ smelly socks, dancing on an alien disco planet, feeling the tremors from a mysterious moonquake, or launching a space rocket, organisers say this new adventure will engage all the senses in a truly immersive experience.
This is the first time Horrible Science has been brought to life as a major exhibition.
The Science and Industry Museum has announced a new major exhibition taking visitors on an ‘epic space adventure’ / Credit: BBC | Science Museum Group
Visitors will get to see familiar characters from the BBC series – like Dr Big Brain, in particular – on their mission to find out more about our fascinating Solar System through interactive experiments, playful challenges, and sensory exploration.
The exhibition is being developed by the Science and Industry Museum in collaboration with producers of the Horrible Science TV show, BBC Children’s and Education, and Lion Television, together with Scholastic, who are publishers of the much-loved Horrible Science book series by Nick Arnold and illustrated by Tony De Saulles.
‘Unmissable’ objects from the Science Museum Group’s world-class space collection will also be on show when the exhibition premieres.
Horrible Science: Cosmic Chaos will open at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester on 13 February 2026 for an 11-month run before heading down to London, and tickets are now on sale priced at £10 – with family discounts available, and under-threes going free.