TalkTalk and Heart have teamed up to bring a spooky 'Fright and Delight' escape room to White Rose Shopping Centre from 10am until 6pm on Wednesday 27th October.
A trio of spooky pop-up escape rooms have landed in Leeds thanks to TalkTalk and Heart Radio Station.
For one-day-only, visitors will be channeling their inner Sherlock Holmes and using their detective skills to find hidden devices in White Rose Shopping Centre for the chance to win some incredible prizes from TalkTalk.
TalkTalk and Heart Radio pop-up escape rooms.
Dance to the tunes from the UK's largest commercial radio station and try to unravel the clues to escape, all whilst trialling Future Fibre.
Make sure you've had your morning coffee as the first exciting challenge is all about reacting to Batak-style lights in record timing. You'll then move on to the 'Concurrency' room where 75 golden coins are hidden somewhere within the escape room.
Even a metal detector won't get you out in time, but if you're smart enough to quickly find the treasure, you'll still have to face one more spooky surprise before escaping.
Lead your group around to the exit and watch out for rotten pumpkins, broken wheelbarrows and the scary pumpkin man on your journey as only the most reliable route will land your team back in time.
Oh and did we mention one member will be blindfolded and they can only be guided out verbally?
TalkTalk and Heart Radio pop-up escape rooms.
If you have no success escaping in time, there will still be plenty of opportunities to win big at this pop-up event. To celebrate the launch of TalkTalk's Future Fibre, there will be the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nintendo Switch, a Ring Video Doorbell and much more.
Lucky winners and visitors alike can also grab a photo for the 'gram at the pop-up selfie station and share on social using #PoweredByFutureFibre.
Future Fibre is almost 50 times faster and five times more reliable than standard broadband, so clearly TalkTalk's latest launch is worth celebrating.
The pop-up event will demonstrate the capacity and speed of Future Fibre, which can effortlessly handle all household devices’ streaming, gaming and video-calling at once.
No more buffering WiFi? We're in.
For more information on Future Fibre from TalkTalk visit their website or come down to the White Rose Shopping Centre tomorrow between 10am and 6pm to see what the fuss is about at their free-to-attend escape room event.
In honour of National Chocolate Week, two big brands are joining forces.
Fancy a freebie? Silly question, of course you do.
Tony’s Chocolonely and Yorkshire Tea have joined forces for National Chocolate Week to ask Brits to declare themselves a ‘Melt’...yes, really.
It comes after the brands discovering a new Gen Z dunking trend, with research finding that 80% of 18–24-year-olds say chocolate is their preferred tea-dunking treat.
To understand why the perculiar pairing has become so popular, the brands recruited Associate Professor of Psychobiology, Dr Lorenzo Stafford, to investigate what happens when tea and chocolate come together.
Associate Professor, Dr Lorenzo Stafford said: "It's fascinating to see how much thought Brits put into what makes a great dunk. Flavour, texture and temperature all shape how we experience food, and the combination of hot tea with melting chocolate creates a particularly enjoyable sensory experience.
"When it comes to dunking, tea and chocolate have great chemistry so it’s no surprise young people have embraced it."
If you want to try it out for yourself, then you can for free - but there is one catch.
From Monday 19 to Friday 23 October, anyone who walks into one of Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds and says ‘I'm a Melt’ will get a free mug of Yorkshire Tea and bar of Tony's Chocolonely.
Not only that, but the first 100 customers will also get a limited-edition ‘Melt’ cap.
Yorkshire Tea & Tony’s Chocolonely said of the partnership, “Brits love their tea and their chocolate and now the science shows why. This National Chocolate Week, we’re inviting everyone to give it a go, embrace their inner Melt and discover just how well chunky chocolate and a proper brew can work together.”
Leeds Bradford Airport strikes will NOT go ahead following ‘late offer’ over pay
Clementine Hall
This weekend's strikes at Leeds Bradford Airport have been cancelled.
Around 130 workers were set to walk out this weekend, Unite said, but this has been suspended to allow air traffic controllers to consider a new pay offer.
The Unite members planning on to go on strike were a mixture of air traffic control workers, customer experience staff, security staff and cleaners.
The workers involved in the dispute had recently come out of a four-year pay deal, with some of the departments having fallen behind other airports in equivalent roles.
Pay talks have been happening since December 2025, with the airport's formal offer not going far enough to address the lack of pay parity which led to the decision to strike.
However, as of yesterday 15 October, the workers have been given new pay offers from the airport and the strikes will not take place to allow a ballot on the offers.
Air traffic controllers and hourly paid staff are being balloted separately on their respective offers.
Unite regional officer Neil Whitaker said: "After receiving offers from Leeds Bradford Airport, we have suspended this week’s strike action in good faith to allow members to vote on pay deals.”
In a statement, Leeds Bradford Airport said: "While the ballot process continues with certain members of our frontline colleagues, we remain hopeful that a positive outcome can be achieved and that an agreement can be reached which works for everyone involved.
"Regardless of the outcome of this ballot, LBA has a robust contingency plan in place and will be operating as normal this weekend.
"Our focus remains on supporting a smooth and reliable experience for customers while maintaining safe and efficient airport operations."
Sophie Smith -
26th October 2021 
