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Spicy Monkey
Spicymonkey offer delicious handmade curry sauces from around the world. As well as Indian-style curry, you can try something adventurous like Persian curry, Jamaican curry or Jungle curry.
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Stornoway Distillers Co
Stornoway Distillers capture the essence of the Outer Hebrides in every drop of their multi-award winning gins. Hand foraged botanicals from Stornoway’s dramatic hills and wild shores are delicately balanced to create beautiful coastal spirits.
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Summer in a Bottle
Pretty Prospector and toffee apple vodka.
Tartan and Tweed
Tartan & Tweed is produced by the brilliant Val Morgan, visit her for beautiful tartan and tweed hand made lamp shades, stools, cushions and chairs.
Thatype
A North East-based jewellery brand offering stylish, accessories crafted with care. They provide a six-month warranty on all products and proudly donate 25p from each order to The King's Trust.
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The Alnwick Rum & Spirits Company
A Taste of Northumbria: bringing together a selection of award-winning Northumbrian drinks from the likes of Lindisfarne Ltd, Alnwick Rum Company and Hepple Gin.
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The Arty Northumbrian
An array of original and unique art – framed originals, framed fine art prints, printed greeting cards, coasters, and-painted terracotta pots, inspired by beautiful Northumberland.
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The Brownie Bar
Gorgeously gooey, rich chocolate brownies and white chocolate blondies in a wide range of flavours.
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The Dessert Hub
A family-run dessert bakery based in the North East. They pride themselves on producing bespoke items which are full of flavour and pleasing on the eye and the palette.
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The Hot Tub Warehouse
A local, family-run business who operate the largest hot tub, swim spa and sauna showroom in the North of England. Visit NE23 1WG to see their huge range from seven different manufacturers.
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The Olive Store
They source their products in person and travel throughout the rural heart of Spain from north to south finding new regional specialities like cherry-infused balsamic vinegar to pork and potato chorizos plus their standard olives and olive oil.
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The Sawley Kitchen
A family-run bakery which specialises in hand-crafted shortbread, vintage biscuits and giant meringues.
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The Sunrise Patisserie
Handmade Portuguese tarts made with love in Lisbon and brought to you baked fresh every.
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The Travelling Bee Company
Happy bees make the best honey! At the award-winning Travelling Bee Company, their mission is to supply you with the highest quality honey – and that’s what they do. Their honeys are all 100 percent raw and unprocessed.
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