A POP-up shop has opened in Festival Place, offering customers the chance to buy unusually shaped chocolate.

The Amazing Chocolate Workshop, at the top of the escalators by Debenhams, is in the shopping centre for two weeks selling Italian chocolate that has been sculpted and hand-painted with flavourless food colourings, with shapes including flowers, paintbrushes, wooden spoons, cameras, pieces of cheese and tools.

Jodi Heath, who is running the stand in the shopping centre, said: "We tour around to different shopping centres and visit markets and fairs. It's all handmade and hand painted."

The business was set up in 2014 with chocolate sold at small craft events and markets.

It has since expanded and the chocolate is now taken all over the country.

Most of the chocolate is dairy free, and therefore has a higher melting temperature, meaning it doesn't need to be in a fridge to keep cool.

The pop-up stand is in Festival Place until June 21, and it is hoped that it will return in October.