Tesla sales bounce back in Britain
The electric carmaker run by the billionaire Elon Musk sold 7,700 vehicles last month, up 3.7 per cent on June 2024.
After a weak first half of 2025, however, Tesla registrations in the year to date remain down by 1.3 per cent year-on-year at 22,700.
Earlier this week Tesla reported that its worldwide sales had fallen more than 13 per cent in the second quarter of the year.
Its weak performance has been put down to a mixture of issues: Musk taking his eye off the ball as he became part of President Trump's government efficiency drive; a backlash by car buyers against Musk's politics and public pronouncements on social media; increased competition from the rise of Chinese electric carmakers led by BYD; and legacy manufacturers finally increasing their production of zero-emission vehicles under pressure from legislators and regulators.
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The Sun
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- The Sun
Foodie reveals the easy way you can get free Wagamama sides – and why you should never throw away their takeaway boxes
WITH the costs skyrocketing, going out for dinner has become more expensive than ever, especially if you have a family. But as cash-strapped Brits are struggling to make ends meet, one savvy foodie has revealed how you can enjoy two sides at Wagamama for free. 2 The beloved restaurant chain has become a firm favourite for many looking for delicious meals that are also hearty - and turns out, you can now upgrade your dishes with extra free sides. The Japanese-inspired chain, known for its legendary Chicken Katsu curry and ramen dishes, offers a huge variety of sides customers can choose from, such as edamame beans for that protein kick and prawn crackers. According to one money-smart foodie, only known as @ catchagemm on TikTok, there's a simple way to save almost £5 for the edamame beans alone during your next visit. And if you love ordering a cheeky takeaway from the popular chain, you might not want to chuck those boxes away. Spilling the beans on the platform, the TikToker first urged foodies to download the Wagamama app on their mobile devices. ''Once you download the app and sign up a new account, you'll get a free voucher for either edamame or prawn crackers,'' he said in the video. ''You can redeem these with your main.'' The cheapest mains, according to their new menu, start from just £10 - and by adding the free side, you'll make them more filling. The savvy foodie went on to reveal another easy hack to bag a free side. ''If you have one of these Wagamama takeaway boxes, all you need to do is just bring it in. I'd heard brilliant things about Too Good to Go so spent £4.40 on an Asda bag - it was an epic fail, I can't eat it all ''The staff will let you know that you can actually trade this for a side. ''Then they will give you one of these vouchers.'' With this voucher, he said, bargain-hunting foodies can claim the free side on the same day or during their next visit to the beloved chain. ''You can trade it in for a free side as long as you buy a main. ''Combine both offers - the one on the app and the one for the free side - and then all you need to do is just buy the main and then you'll get two free sides.'' Where can kids eat for free this summer? THE summer holidays are here, but entertaining the kids need not cost a fortune. Here, we reveal where you can get free and cheap meals for your little ones during the 'endless' summer holidays. ASDA CAFE: Nip into an Asda cafe to feed the kids after the weekly shop. Under-16s get a hot or cold meal for £1 at any time of day. Little ones are covered, too. Kids under 18 months get a free Ella's baby food pouch with any purchase. BEEFEATER: This family-friendly pub chain makes mornings a breeze. Two kids under 16 eat for free with the purchase of an adult breakfast for £10.99. It's available from 6.30am to 10.30am midweek and 7am to 11am at weekends. BELLA ITALIA: Book a table and order an adult meal at the Italian eatery for kids aged two to 11 to get three courses and a drink for £1. Offer valid between 4pm and 6pm on Sundays to Wednesdays. On Thursdays, kids eat free all day when an adult meal is ordered from the a la carte menu. DUNELM: Make homeware shopping a fun day out. Dunelm's Pausa Cafes are offering free kids' meals for every £4 spent on their food or drink. Available all day, every day. BILL'S: Dine in at a Bill's restaurant to get up to two free kids' meals (normally £6.95 each) with an adult meal. Valid weekdays only until August 30. IKEA: Make it a food day at the Swedish home store. On every day except Fridays, enjoy a pit stop at their famous cafe from 11am to get a kids' pasta or mac and cheese dish for 95p. Other mini meals are available for £1.50. PIZZA EXPRESS: Kids up to age ten can get a free three-course Piccolo meal including dough balls, pizza or pasta and dessert with every adult meal purchased. The offer runs every day until August 11. TESCO: Pop to the supermarket cafe from Monday to Friday until August 30 for free kids' meals when an adult buys any item in the cafe. You must have a Clubcard to redeem the offer. THE RANGE: Kids under 16 get one free meal per adult main purchased at The Range cafes. Options include sandwiches, a cooked breakfast and fish and chips. All kids' meals come with a piece of fruit and a drink. Site closure However, if you live in Manchester, you won't be able to enjoy this epic offer - as its Spinningfields location has shut its doors after two decades of serving up fan-favourite dishes, we reported in February. The chain first opened the Spinningfields site in August 2005, making it the second Wagamama restaurant in the city. The venue, located in Spinningfields Square opposite Rosa's Thai, is now listed as permanently closed on the chain's website. A message told customers: 'We're now closed at this location. but don't worry, you can still get your favourites at the nearby St Peter's Square or Printworks restaurants.' A spokesperson for Wagamama confirmed the decision, stating: 'Given there are already two other wagamama restaurants in Manchester, guests are being directed to the two other sites to either wagamama Printworks or wagamama St Peters Square.' The spokesperson also hinted at potential future expansions, adding: 'We are always looking for suitable sites in and around the area.' Despite the closure, Wagamama continues to operate across more than 170 locations across the country, including Greater Manchester locations in the Trafford Centre, Didsbury, and Salford's MediaCity.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
A four-day week could be the final nail in our economy's coffin
South Cambridgeshire District Council, after a lengthy trial, is to adopt a permanent four-day (32-hour) week. On Friday it published a report supposedly justifying this. The report claimed that its exciting new way of working had saved the council just under £400,000 in a full year. The savings came from sharply reducing the number of voluntary leavers and attracting 120 per cent more applicants for vacancies. This reduced the need to recruit and train new staff, and to employ agency staff to fill any gaps. Moreover self-reported staff health, wellbeing and motivation are shown to have improved, with 'burnout' – that strange Gen Z affliction unknown until a few minutes ago – being greatly reduced. And scores on 21 out of the council's 24 'Key Performance Indicators' were maintained or improved. So what's not to like? Few of us are against shorter working hours as such. As we have got richer over the last century and a half, the normal working week has halved. It will probably shrink further over the future – as the campaigning Four Day Week Foundation is eager to point out, citing a number of private sector employers already moving in this direction. Nevertheless, a number of things bother me about the South Cambridgeshire claims. One is that the apparently improved productivity may be in part a statistical artefact, a product of the way KPIs are drawn up and measured. For example, 'planning applications completed on time' or 'invoices paid in 30 days' look to be indicators which could easily be gamed. Even if the productivity increase is real, it may be a temporary phenomenon – perhaps a modern example of the early 20th-century 'Hawthorne effect' where observing workers' response to new work arrangements leads to a change in behaviour which dissipates when the practice is normalised and oversight removed. Another concern is that, if it has proved so easy to get five days' work done in four days, there must surely have been plenty of scope for reorganising work within the existing working week. As the TaxPayers' Alliance has pointed out, why could productivity not have been increased without changing the working week, with money saved by cutting the number of employees? This is a national issue, as public sector productivity growth has been abysmal for years. Inadvertently, perhaps, the South Cambridgeshire experiment reveals just how much slack there may be in local authorities. The council makes great play in the report of the trial's 'positive picture' – for the organisation and employees. However not much information is provided about the response of end-users of council services – businesses and local residents. What information there is suggests that significant numbers of users may be dissatisfied over matters such as bin collections, communication difficulties and repairs to tenants' accommodation. The council says that it was going to investigate this further, but they couldn't run a survey because the previous government forbade them to do so. The cost savings to the council, at a time when local government faces severe financial constraints, have been headlined by supporters of the four-day scheme. But these gains probably arise from what economists call 'first mover advantage'. Within commuting distance of South Cambridgeshire District Council are four other district councils plus the upper-tier Cambridgeshire County Council. As South Cambridgeshire, tied to the same national pay scales, is offering a better package, it is not surprising that fewer of its staff want to leave, and that job adverts attract more applicants. But what you can't assume is that if every Fenland council adopts a four-day week, there will be a similar financial gain for all of them. The latecomers would not be offering anything which you couldn't already get in Cambourne. It seems very possible that the shorter week will attract copycats far beyond South Cambridgeshire. Trade unions such as Unison, a long-time supporter of the 4-day week and the organiser of around 30 per cent of local government workers, will press for it to be applied across the sector. The government's Employment Rights Bill makes flexible working the default: any employer resisting a claim for new ways of working will have to have a very strong case that a change will damage its business. If Unison organises a test case in another part of the country where staff demand a shorter working week, they will be able to use the South Cambridgeshire case as evidence for its feasibility. Our soft-centred employment tribunals will probably agree. Nor will this be the only possible knock-on effect. Remember that many workers cannot feasibly increase their productivity much when working shorter hours. Teachers, emergency workers, dentists, ambulance drivers – if they work fewer hours, extra staff would have to be employed to generate the same output, so employers would have a defensible argument against the change. But that doesn't end the matter. For these workers will rightly point out that the South Cambridgeshire arrangement is in effect an increase in hourly pay of between 15 and 20 per cent. If other workers can't be switched on to a shorter week, they'll be demanding whacking great pay increases to compensate. This all looks like another load of trouble at a time when the economy already seems to be heading for the knacker's yard. The touchy-feely crowd at Cambourne Business Park don't know what they're potentially unleashing.
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
Crystal Palace in dark over European place and stuck in Textor's tangled web
A champion skateboarder in his youth, John Textor has never been averse to risk. The American businessman even warrants a mention in Craig Snyder's book A Secret History of the Ollie as 'one of the few who beat eight-time world champion Rodney Mullen in freestyle competitions during the turn of the 70s', but a serious head injury put an end to his competitive career. Textor surprisingly turned his attention to football club ownership in 2021 when he bought a stake in Crystal Palace after making his fortune in digital technology and the next week could prove decisive for his latest venture. The New York Jets owner, Woody Johnson, is poised to complete his purchase of Textor's 43% share in the FA Cup winners if – as expected in the coming days – he passes the Premier League's owners' and directors' test. However, Palace's participation in the Europa League appears to rest on the outcome of Lyon's appeal against their relegation from Ligue 1. That is due to be heard this week by French football's national directorate of management control (DNCG), with Lyon – who are also owned by Textor's company Eagle Football Holdings – having accepted in a meeting with Uefa that if they fail they would relinquish their Europa League place and clear the way for Palace. In an attempt to increase hopes of winning the appeal, given his rocky relationship with the DNCG since Textor bought out Jean-Michel Aulas in June 2022, he announced last Monday that he had resigned from his leadership roles at Lyon. Michael Gerlinger has been appointed as chief executive and Michele Kang – who also owns the Washington Spirit and London City Lionesses and bought Lyon's extremely successful women's team from Eagle Football Holdings last year – as chair and president. On Friday Lyon were fined €12.5m (£10.8m) by Uefa for a breach of financial sustainability requirements. Reports in France say Lyon must inject €70m to be allowed to play in Ligue 1 next season. Should the appeal fail, Textor is understood to be confident Lyon will be cleared, even if it it means ending up in court. But with the American fund Ares Management, that provided a €425m loan to complete the purchase of Lyon, breathing down his neck, time is of the essence. Eagle Football was listed for an initial public offering in the United States last month, with Textor understood to want to begin selling shares in September. He is believed to have spent the weekend in the Bahamas after stating he was 'looking forward to the reduction of my day-to-day management responsibilities in Europe, so I can focus on markets where we have the full freedom to run our football clubs … to invest, innovate, grow and compete. OL [are] in great hands with Michele, and I will focus on Botafogo, Daring Brussels and our next club in England.' Sheffield Wednesday, who have been banned from spending money on transfers until January 2027 after the repeated failure to pay players' wages, have been mooted as a potential target once the sale of his Palace shares to Johnson is ratified, although Dejphon Chansiri is reported to want more than £150m for the Championship club. Textor has held talks with Watford's owner, Gino Pozzo, about investing at Vicarage Road in the past. Textor's close relationship with Evangelos Marinakis – the Nottingham Forest owner whose side would stand to be promoted to the Europa League should Uefa rule against Palace – has led to several players moving from Botafogo and Lyon to the City Ground over the past 12 months. Igor Jesus's signing was announced on Saturday and Jair Cunha could be to be latest after the Brazilian champions' elimination from the Club World Cup that cost the coach, Renato Paiva, his job as Textor was unhappy with team selection and formation. 'I'm shocked,' Paiva said of his dismissal, 'and the staff and players are open-mouthed about the decision.' He was appointed in February after Artur Jorge led Botafogo to victory in the Copa Libertadores in 2024. Textor is said to be leading the search for the coach's successor. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Textor's frustration over his lack of influence at Palace led to a breakdown in relations with the chair, Steve Parish. Despite holding the biggest stake, Textor was unable to persuade Parish and his fellow American co-owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer that Palace should be fully integrated into Eagle Football's multi-club network, and repeated efforts to take full control – like his attempt to buy Everton – failed. He has taken credit for last year's appointment of Oliver Glasner, having spoken to him about the vacancy at Lyon a few months earlier. But it is understood Palace produced evidence of correspondence between the Austrian manager, Parish and the then sporting director, Dougie Freedman, to support their argument to Uefa that Textor played no part in their decision-making process. If a shareholder has a decisive influence over more than one club, those clubs are not allowed to play in the same Uefa tournament. Palace are expected to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) should the decision go against them, with Forest – the first visitors of the Premier League season to Selhurst Park on 23 August – likely to do the same if Palace are cleared to play in the Europa League. It will be intriguing to see whose side Textor is on if summoned to give evidence to Cas in Lausanne. He officially resigned as a director of Palace's board on 18 June and Parish will be hoping that Johnson, who described a report that named him as the NFL's worst owner this year as 'bogus', can provide some stability and finances as they anxiously await their fate in Europe.
