Looking for a place to splash the cash now your student loan has come in?
Trinity Shopping Centre has announced it will be hosting a two-day student festival with huge discounts off your favourite brands, bars and more.
During the two-day festival, students will have access to exclusive offers from the likes of New Look, Victoria’s Secret and Superdry.
Even Urban Outfitters will be offering 10% off to students, whilst EE and Three will be enticing students with exclusive mobile contracts starting from £16 per month (unlimited data included).
The festival will run between 4pm and 8pm on both Wednesday the 6th of October and Thursday the 7th of October.
Don’t just stop in stores for discounts though, any fresher using the festival as an excuse to not cook for the night will be delighted to hear that these exclusive discounts are available at a range of bars and restaurants inside Trinity Centre too.
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At MEATLiquor, students will receive 50% odd their entire bill, with both soft drinks or the one-off cocktail included, whilst My Cookie Dough have 30% off their menu and Pho, 25%.
McDonalds will be giving away freebies with every meal: choose from cheeseburgers, hamburgers, mayo chickens or a McFlurry to have whilst browsing some of the best discounts of the year.
For a few lucky winners, the free food will extend far further than the festival.
For the chance to win a year’s supply of Pot Noodles or free takeaways for a term, students will have the chance to play classic games like the Price is Right’s Plinko or Play your Cards Right. Additional prizes include free Netflix for a year, iPads or shopping vouchers.
Freshers can get into the festival spirit by browsing the stores to the beat of DJs mixing decks and the unique wall-to-wall entertainment around the shopping centre.
A Leeds pizza takeaway has received a glowing review from popular review duo.
Edges Pizza opened up their first permanent spot in Leeds back in June this year, after making a name for themselves slinging out pizzas at multiple pop-ups across the city.
Owners Grace and Edge from Harrogate opened Edges Pizza two years ago, taking inspiration from trips to New York over the years.
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Their pizzas are a love letter to the class New York slice, think thin and crispy rather than chewy and floppy. But above all else, think absolutely delicious.
And now, they've caught the attention of a major review page, with Bite Twice Food Reviews (a page with almost 300k followers) paying Edges a visit.
The food review duo of Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany popped up in Holbeck beneath the arches to get their hands on a pizza, and the outcome is brilliant.
In the video, Bite Twice said that the pizza is 'f**cking exceptional' and up there with 'one of the best pizzas in the UK'.
Before even taking a bite, they said: "On aesthetic, I don't think anywhere in the UK is doing pizza like this".
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Then after the first bite, they go on to say: "There are very few pizzas in the UK that create this, I’m a little bit blown away".
As Londoners themselves, they go on to say that Edges is 'easily hitting with the best that we’ve got down south'.
And if that's not high praise enough, they sign off the video saying: "Leeds has got an absolute gem. I give this a stamp so hard my foot went through the pizza. Edges. Don Level."
Yorkshire-set Christmas film by Leeds director starring Richard E. Grant set to hit UK cinemas next month
Clementine Hall
A brand-new Christmas film is hitting cinemas nationwide next month - and it’s a proper Leeds success story.
Jack Spring directed his first feature film at just 19 years old and has spent the last decade carving out a career in independent film, as well as co-founding Leeds-based production company Shush Films.
His first movie, Destination: Dewsbury, was shot just down the road in - you guessed it - Dewsbury. And after moving to Leeds from Grimsby, Jack became determined to build his business from the city, putting down roots and growing his production company here.
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Now, after years of working on independent projects, Jack has taken his biggest leap yet with a brand-new Christmas film, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint.
Set in Yorkshire, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint follows Aubrey Flint, a reclusive model soldier painter with a lifelong hatred of Christmas, who is sentenced to community service at Willow Lodge - a retirement home on the brink of closure.
Roped into helping with a chaotic production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Aubrey clashes with its interesting set of residents...
And the cast is about as star-studded as it gets, featuring Richard E. Grant, John Bradley, Celia Imrie, Adjoa Andoh, Sophia Di Martino, Adrian Rawlins and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
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The heartwarming festive comedy will hit cinemas nationwide on Friday 6 November - a huge milestone for a Leeds-based director and production company, taking a homegrown Yorkshire story to audiences across the country.
You just can't beat a proper wholesome British Christmas film, so you can best believe we'll be watching in the cinema, popcorn in hand.
Sophie Smith -
27th September 2021 
