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 new aesthetics clinic with a budget-friendly tiered pricing model
The Manc
There’s a new medically–led aesthetics clinic in the heart of Manchester, which offers a tiered pricing model that will get you the right treatment at a price that suits your budget.
The Academy Clinic has opened up on Quay Street, specialising in natural, balanced results with a massive range of injectable and cosmetic dermatology treatments
The clinic was founded by Dr Tristan Mehta, Dr Emily Mehta, and Dr Marcus Mehta, who want to raise the standards of injectable and cosmetic dermatology treatments across the UK.
It’s part of Harley Academy, the UK’s leading provider of postgraduate training in aesthetic medicine.
And that’s what sets it apart from a lot of other clinics in the UK, and makes it a stand-out in an industry that is largely unregulated – at The Academy Clinic you won’t ever be treated by non-medics or anyone without formal medical training.
It means that you are always in the hands of a registered medical professional – whether it be practitioner or trainee, and doctor, nurse, dentist or clinical pharmacist – who would be able to manage complications, so you can feel confident you’re in the best hands.
The Academy Clinic in Manchester. Credit: Supplied
And the tiered treatment model really does suit every patient’s budget and preferences – you can take a more affordable treatment option, where qualified medical professionals are learning and being upskilled with expert supervision during your treatment; or you can opt for a fully private experience with a senior practitioner and no training elements involved.
There’s a wide range of treatments available, including popular injectable skin treatments such as Profhilo® and Profhilo Structura®, polynucleotides, dermal fillers, microneedling, HydraFacial and more, all designed to deliver natural-looking, confidence-boosting results.
Beyond patient care, The Academy Clinic’s clinical team also trains and mentors medical professionals through its GMC-registered aesthetics training academy, Harley Academy.
Dr Tristan Mehta, Founder & CEO of The Academy Clinic and Harley Academy, said: “Our mission has always been to raise standards in aesthetics. By combining education with patient care, we can ensure treatments are delivered safely, ethically, and with natural results.
Treatments include HydraFacials
“Bringing The Academy Clinic to Manchester means more people can access medically-led aesthetics with confidence.”
The Academy Clinic is now open at St John’s Court on Quay Street in Manchester, having acquired SkinViva last October.
To keep up to date with the latest news and promotions, you can follow The Academy Clinic on Instagram @theacademyclinic. For bookings or enquiries, call 0161 865 1141, visit theacademyclinic.co.uk or email [email protected].
Exclusive offer for The Manc readers: Use code MANC25 at the time of booking or when in clinic for 25% off any treatments excluding wrinkle reduction treatments.
Wigan favourites Stanleys release first single ahead of debut album next year
Danny Jones
Fast-rising Wigan band Stanleys have dropped the lead single from their debut album, which is finally on its way and will be coming sometime next year.
Entitled ‘Pass The Time’, the Stanleys’ latest outing arrived on Friday, 20 February, and while there’s still no specific release date for the first-ever full-length LP, we do know it’s coming at some point in 2027.
To simply label it as more catchy indie would be a disservice to the craft and graft these lads have put in: this is definitely a step forward and in a slightly different direction, with an even more guitar-driven feel and an extra bit of gruff about it compared to previous Stanleys material.
Our only minor complaint is that we wish it lasted a little longer – we want MORE.
An energetic two-and-a-half-minute track that we can already see becoming a fan favourite, it’s one we’re looking forward to hearing in the flesh.
We’ve caught the Stanleys boys live a few times now, both here in Manchester city centre and at their sold-out show in Wigan as part of The Monaco relaunch, as well as at the likes of Kendal Calling festival in recent years.
Safe to say, they never disappoint, and neither do their growing crowd of die-hards.
With lyrics touching on not just the passing of time but also that sense of youthful ambition and how it fluctuates with age, it feels like one of those defiant indie rallying cries we grew up listening to in our own adolescence, and it definitely has plenty of energy to it.
Both The Manc and our wider Audio North team had the pleasure of chatting with them back in November 2024, and you can tell they have big plans to take on not just the local music scene but the UK and beyond.
The release of ‘Pass The Time’ comes almost a year on from their last song, ‘Out the Door’: a similarly fast-run song, albeit with a different vibe.
Positioned as part of Wigan’s next generation of new bands and artists, Stanleys are clearly looking to keep developing as musicians, and if tunes like these are anything to go by, then we can’t wait for their first full record.
They’re also going to be playing a night here in Manchester city centre and beloved grassroots venue, Night and Day, this April; you can grab tickets HERE.
So get adding it to your Spotify playlists, watching the music video, and maybe we’ll see you at the gig.
Daisy Jackson -
23rd November 2022 
