Located on Commercial Street in Leeds city centre, you'll find some of the most unique sweets around.
Kingdom of Sweets in Leeds is the only place you can channel your inner immature self and act like, well, a kid in a candy store.
Founded in 2007 as a pick 'n' mix store in a London high street shopping centre, Kingdom of Sweets has grown into a huge supplier of all things sweet and sugary- way before it was the trendy business to start in lockdown.
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Having been in the market for so long, they know exactly what their customers want too- and their out of this world selection of overseas goods shows this. There's everything from Fruit Loops flavoured Pop Tarts to Creme Soda Dr Pepper here to choose from.
Upon entering, your eyes will cascade around the kaleidoscope of colour before spotting out row upon row of flavours you never knew existed.
If you're looking for an early easter gift (to yourself), there's Reeces eggs with white chocolate and XL peanut butter cups, or if you're craving a mid-afternoon snack, there's even mini versions of American favourites Mike & Ike in teeny 25 cent cartons.
Some of our favourite finds inside Kingdom of Sweets included Lays (those crisps that taste like every European holiday you've ever been on); KitKats in a 'fruity cereal' flavour that looks identical to Fruit Loops; pineapple and strawberry flavoured Fanta and Slush Puppie biscuits.
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Although it would never be recommended, you could get every meal of the day from here: there's a whole host of sugary cereals on offer too, including Oreo Os and breakfast Pop Tarts.
If that's not enough, Kingdom of Sweets has a machine that makes those fantastic Tango Ice Blast Frozen drinks from the cinema too.
With a nod to eco-friendly credentials the Kingdom of Sweets even use the Too Good To Go app to offload stock close to its sell-by date. The company sells the sweets on this app at a fraction of the retail cost and helps to bring their wastage down to a minimal level.
The tiramisu hype lives on, and this time it's coming to Leeds.
It really does feel like the traditional Italian dessert has taken the world by storm as of late.
Everything from tiramisu cups and tiramisu coffees have been popping up all over our feed, and now tiramisu in drawer form is popping up in the city centre.
Misu Tiramisu is an independent business that began at Manchester's Christmas Markets and quickly became one of the most popular operators, all thanks to its miniature tiramisu ‘drawers’.
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The individually portioned and colourfully packaged desserts quickly became one of town’s top puddings, and owners Aleem and Aishah went on to launch a stand inside the Manchester Arndale too.
And now they’re branching out again in Leeds inside Trinity shopping centre for a two month residency.
You’ll find all their delicious flavours of handmade tiramisu, including classic, pistachio, chocolate, Biscoff, mango, and lemon - they'll also have some gluten-free tiramisu on offer as well, so no one has to miss out.
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Misu Tiramisu owners Aleem and Aishah spent a year refining the recipe for their tiramisus after a trip to Milan, first launching with their first market stall in Sale.
Misu Tiramisu is now open inside Trinity shopping centre opposite Boots Opticians and Pop Specs.
They're open every day of the week for you to get your tiramisu fix, from 9am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and from 11am to 5pm on a Sunday.
And trust us Leeds, they're just as delicious as they are adorable.
Fossilised 320-million-year-old fish found in Leeds’ Roundhay Park
Clementine Hall
A prehistoric fish fossil has been unearthed at Roundhay Park in Leeds.
The fascinating prehistoric skull bone of a coelacanth fish was discovered by a geologist at Roundhay Park earlier this year.
It is thought the creature was frozen in time aeons ago, during an era when the park was submerged under a vast tropical lagoon.
The remarkable discovery has now been kindly donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries and added to the natural sciences collection at Leeds Discovery Centre.
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The Leeds fossil was found by Ru Smith of the Yorkshire Geological Society during a reconnaissance walk he was carrying out ahead of a planned field excursion in the north Leeds park.
Describing the moment he made the discovery, Ru said: “There’s a layer of rock in the park which dates from around 320 million years ago, from a time before the breakup of the continents, when what is now the park would have been situated close the Equator and under the warm waters of a tropical lagoon. West Central Africa would be a good place to find similar environments in the present.
“There’s a bed of freshwater mussels called Carbonicola at one level in the rock, and opening a piece of shale from this bed in my hands I saw something unusual – a distinctive skull bone of a large fish. I knew straight away this was something different and very rare."
The bone was verified byexperts as belonging to a coelacanth older than those found elsewhere in Yorkshire, making it the oldest fossil coelacanth discovered in the region.
Ru added: “Coelacanths are pretty amazing fish and it’s just very cool to think that at one time, you could have been standing in Leeds and watching them swim around above a bed of mussels in Roundhay Park.
“That’s really the wonder of geology, looking at the rock and time travelling in the imagination to what was a very different world.”
Sophie Smith -
22nd February 2022 
