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South Wales Argus
2 days ago
- Sport
- South Wales Argus
Wimbledon 2025 drink prices revealed - what you'll be paying
There's nothing better than sitting in the sun, courtside, or perhaps on the hill watching the tennis with an ice-cold beverage. Or perhaps the traditional Wimbledon snack of strawberries and cream is more to your liking. Whatever it is that takes your fancy, here is what you'll have to pay for your favourite beverage or snack at Wimbledon 2025. Drinks prices for Wimbledon 2025 Drinks prices during Wimbledon 2025, according to the website, are as follows: Beer and cider Stella Artois - £8.85 (pint) Stella Artois Unfiltered - £8.85 (pint) Camden Easy IPA - £8.45 (pint) Camden Pale Ale - £8.45 (pint) Kopparberg Crisp Apple Cider - £8.45 (pint) Bottled Stella Artois - £7.80 Stella Artois (gluten free) - £7.80 Camden Pale Ale - £7.50 Leffe Blonde - £7.50 Corona - £7.50 Brutal Fruit - £7.50 Kopparberg Crisp Apple Cider - £7.50 Stella Artois (non-alcoholic) - £6.90 Wine Uncommon White Wine - £10.20 (187ml can) Uncommon Rose Wine - £10.20 (187ml can) Uncommon Red Wine - £10.20 (187ml can) NV Saluti Vino Bianca Vinicola Serena - £6.60 (125ml)/£9.40 (175ml) Petit Chenin Blanc, Ken Forrester (2023/24) - £44.45 (bottle) NV Saluti Vino Rosso Vinicola Serena - £6.60 (125ml)/£9.40 (175ml) Côtes du Rhône, Laudun Chusclan (2021) - £46.70 -(bottle) Thirsty Birds Rosé (2023) - £6.60 (125ml)/£9.40 (175ml) Pure Rosé Côtes De Provence Mirabeau (2023/24) - £49.60 (bottle) Champagne Lanston Le Rose Creation Brut NV - £20 (glass)/£29.85 (20cl)/£55.15 (half bottle)/£100.90 (bottle) Lanson Le Black Creation Brut NV - £26.55 (20cl)/£51 (half bottle)/£96 (bottle) Soft Drink Soft drinks 330ml (Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke, Sprite Zero) - £2.75 Evian Reusable Bottle (all day refills) - £5 Evian Sparkling Mineral Water (330ml) - £2.55 Frobishers Juice (250ml) - £4.20 Pimms Reusable glass - £12.25 Spirits and Cocktails House spirits (25ml) - £4.70 Premium spirits (25ml) - £5.85 Mixers 200ml (including tonic, soda water and ginger ale) - £3.15 Sipsmith London Dry/Lemon Drizzle/Zesty Orange Gin and Tonic £11.05 Sipsmith Strawberry Smash Spritz/Centre Court Cooler/Lemon Drop Shot - £13.35 (single)/£15.50 (double) Summer Blossom Spritz/Bergamot Marine Spritz (non-alcoholic) - £10.40 How have these drink prices changed since last year? Pints of beer and cider (including the likes of Stella Artois and Camden Pale Ale) at Wimbledon 2025 have increased by 35p since last year. While the price of bottled beer (and cider) is up 30p compared to Wimbledon 2024. Pimms is always a popular go-to drink at Wimbledon, but punters will have to fork out an extra 30p for a reusable glass in 2025, with prices rising from £11.95 to £12.25. If you are looking to treat yourself with a bottle of champagne, the most expensive bottle will set you back £100.90. Gin and tonic prices have also increased this year, with the tipple costing £11.05 in 2025, up £1.25 from 2024 (£9.80). Other spirits (house), with a mixer, at Wimbledon last year cost fans £7.50, but in 2025 they will be forced to fork out £7.85 (an increase of 35p). RECOMMENDED READING: How much will Strawberries and Cream cost at Wimbledon in 2025? Similar to drink prices at Wimbledon 2025, the cost of Strawberries and Cream has also increased, according to this year's menus (available on the Wimbledon website). Strawberries and Cream will be on sale for £2.70 at Wimbledon this year. Wimbledon 2025 will run from Monday, June 30, until Sunday, July 13.
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Drunk Sanjay Dutt, irritated Javed Akhtar, short Salman Khan: Sanket Bhosale's mimicry leaves Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi in splits
Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi have shared a small-scale vlog, for a change. After posting several food vlogs filmed across Mumbai, and then sharing a series of travel vlogs from their recent trip to Switzerland, the couple invited comedians Sanket Bhosale and Sugandha Mishra to their Madh Island home, and spent an afternoon chilling with them. Sanket and Sugandha, who met over a decade ago, tied the knot in 2020. They're both well known for their impressions of celebrities such as Sonu Nigam, Sanjay Dutt, Usha Uthup and Kangana Ranaut. They have dozens of more impressions in their repertoire. Upon arriving, Sanket and Sugandha immediately made jokes about Archana and Parmeet's wealth. Sugandha thanked Archana for the support she showed to her back in the day, when she'd appear on comedy shows on television. She also told Parmeet that all of Punjab considers him to be a son of the soil, and are extremely proud of his achievements. 'When DDLJ came out, we all went crazy for Parmeet sir,' she said. They were joined by Archana and Parmeet's sons, Ayushmaan and Aaryamann. Also read – Archana Puran Singh's son orders palak paneer in Swiss restaurant, ice-cold glacier water reminds Parmeet Sethi of Mumbai Archana asked them to perform some of their best impressions, and Sanket proceeded to mimic Sanjay Dutt, making references to the actor's stints in jail, his former drug habit, and his bulky physique. Sugandha, meanwhile, sang like Usha Uthup and Asha Bhosle. She also mimicked Kangana Ranaut, and made snappy remarks at the others. Sanket did impressions of both Farhan Akhtar and Javed Akhtar, making jokes that implied the veteran lyricist is annoyed by his son's singing voice, and that Farhan doesn't write original material. Later, Archana and Parmeet took them to their in-house gym, where Sanket did more impressions of Sanjay Dutt. He made jokes about Sanjay's love for alcohol, and then did an impression of Salman Khan where he struggled to reach the monkey bars. Then, Sanket sat down on the floor and did an impression of actor Pankaj Tripathi. Archana and her family were in splits, laughing endlessly at their jokes and their mimicry. Parmeet gave Sanket his blessings, and seemed to be truly impressed with his talent. Extremely talented couple. Maza agaya dekhkar inhe. Bollywood m jana chahiye inhe,' one fan wrote in the comments section. 'Wow what a beautiful couple,' another person commented.
The Star
20-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
JD.com billionaire's viral stunt reignites China's food-delivery feud
One unusually warm evening in April, Richard Liu revved his scooter through Beijing's traffic-snarled streets alongside other delivery workers, and then personally handed food orders to surprised customers. Later that night, over spicy hotpot and ice-cold beer, the Inc founder welcomed a pair of riders from two rival delivery firms to his company. The publicity stunt, broadcast on viral online videos, reignited a fight for China's US$80bil (RM340.39bil)-plus food delivery market. In just a few months, JD, China's largest online retailer by revenue, amassed 25 million daily takeout orders across 350 cities, capturing more than half the volume of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's the runner-up to market leader Meituan. Neither saw Liu coming. China's food delivery industry has been in an effective duopoly after brutal price wars forced out many smaller players almost a decade ago. Takeout became more expensive even as merchants and riders complained about making less. Liu is now turning to an old playbook: charging restaurants no commission, generous hiring bonuses for 100,000 new full-time riders, plus a 10bil yuan (RM 5.92bil or US $1.4bil) discounting campaign for consumers. During its flagship shopping festival this month, JD sold coffee and bubble tea for as cheap as 1.68 yuan (RM1). The food delivery war is indicative of the bifurcation in China's mammoth tech industry. On the one hand, players like DeepSeek are spurring major tech firms to invest in innovations like generative AI. On the other, the effects of Beijing's yearslong Covid lockdowns and regulatory campaigns against Big Tech still linger, and many companies are desperately searching for sources of growth in a saturated market. Liu's marketing stunt is also personal. The viral videos of him waiting to pick up boxed lunches and downing beers with other riders mark a surprise return to the public eye for the 52-year-old tech mogul, who faded from the spotlight in 2018 when he was arrested in the US on suspicion of rape, though prosecutors in Minneapolis ultimately declined to press charges. During Beijing's crackdown on the tech sector in 2022, Liu joined a long list of tech founders who stepped down. His departure coincided with some of JD's toughest times since its founding as a tiny electronics outlet in 1998. Its premium online shopping service ran into China's slowing economy, its own bargain app flopped, and an overseas foray was abandoned. That left JD with no growth story, as giants Alibaba and Tencent Holdings Ltd bet big on generative AI and smaller rivals such as Meituan and Didi Global Inc exported their gig-economy models abroad. Even Meituan has begun selling and delivering everything from iPhones to washing machines in a few hours. 'For JD, it's a lost five years, to put it bluntly,' Liu said during a rare news conference at the company's Beijing headquarters Tuesday. 'No innovation, no growth, no progress. It should be considered the most unremarkable and least valuable five years in my entrepreneurial history.' Explaining their rationale of getting into food delivery, Liu said that it's about leveraging JD's battle-tested logistics network to acquire new users, 40% of whom have already been converted into e-commerce customers. 'Our losses are smaller than what we would have spent on advertising,' he said. Not everyone is convinced. JD's takeout business could generate as much as 18bil yuan (RM 10.66bil) in annualised losses, wiping out 36% of its parent's operating profit for 2025, says JPMorgan Chase & Co. Arete Research estimates that as the market leader, Meituan will only need to spend about a quarter of JD's costs to defend its position. JD's loss per order will narrow to 3 yuan (RM1.78) in the second half of 2025 from 8 yuan (RM4.74) this quarter as it pares back subsidies to confront the economic reality, the equity research house predicts. 'We do not think JD will find material success in local services like insta-commerce, but understand management's sense of urgency in needing to diversify its business mix and feeling threatened by Meituan,' Arete analysts Shawn Yang and Richard Kramer wrote in a note in June. Representatives for JD, Alibaba, and Meituan didn't respond to requests for comment for this story. What's clear is that JD has injected new life into a long-dormant market. hardest hit by JD's offensive, gave out 10bil yuan (RM 5.92bil) in subsidies to customers, then another 1bil yuan (RM 592.27mil) to restaurants. Alibaba also integrated the takeout app into its flagship e-commerce platform Taobao in the hope of diverting more traffic to it. Meituan for the first time ever is giving away vouchers on things like smartphones and liquor during the June 18 sales event that JD invented more than a decade ago. Its founder Wang Xing declared to investors in May that it would do 'whatever measure it takes to win the game'. The renewed food-delivery battle is reminiscent of the all-out war in online shopping just years ago, when alleged abuses like forcing merchants into exclusive arrangements helped fuel Beijing's Big Tech crackdown, wiping out trillions in wealth. Though pressure has eased, government scrutiny remains heightened as high youth unemployment drives more and more people to take up gig work. Regulators in May summoned executives from the three takeout firms into meetings on fair competition and protection of riders, among other topics. By 2024, China had more than 10 million delivery riders, official data showed. In Beijing, there were 17,000 riders in the first half of 2024, up 50% from a year ago. And amid growing awareness of how riders often prioritise speed over safety to earn more, said in April that it would gradually phase out a cash penalty system for riders who miss their deadlines. JD is going further in worker benefits by paying social security – a government-sponsored welfare system including pensions and medical insurance – for all of its full-time riders. Meituan and followed suit with similar policies. JD has won over riders like Jiang Xiaoxi, a migrant worker in Shenzhen who joined Meituan before Covid but quit last year to take care of her sick grandfather in her hometown in Hunan province. When the 25-year-old returned to Shenzhen this year, she picked JD instead for regular eight-hour shifts and persuaded her peers to jump ship. 'I signed a contract on day one,' she said. 'Having social security as a full-time employee gives me a sense of belonging.' Others are wary of such promises, with memories of the past delivery price-war still fresh. Tang Zequan, 36, recalls how in 2016 he could make more than 10 yuan (RM5.92) per order as a new driver for Meituan in Guangzhou. After Meituan emerged dominant, his earnings went down to 7 yuan (RM4.15) per order. As a high-school dropout, he acknowledges that no other job could have helped him pay off debts so quickly after his real estate brokerage business went under during Beijing's crackdown on the property market. 'I have great gratitude for the food delivery industry, but I won't pay allegiance to any firm,' Tang said. 'Without choices we are left with a monopoly.' – Bloomberg
Straits Times
20-06-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
JD.com billionaire's viral stunt reignites China's food delivery feud
BEIJING – One unusually warm evening in April, Richard Liu revved his scooter through Beijing's traffic-snarled streets alongside other delivery workers, and then personally handed food orders to surprised customers. Later that night, over spicy hotpot and ice-cold beer, the founder welcomed a pair of riders from two rival delivery firms to his company. The publicity stunt, broadcast on viral online videos, reignited a fight for China's US$80 billion (S$102.9 billion)-plus food delivery market. In just a few months, JD, China's largest online retailer by revenue, amassed 25 million daily takeout orders across 350 cities, capturing more than half the volume of Alibaba Group Holding's the runner-up to market leader Meituan. Neither saw Mr Liu coming. China's food delivery industry has been in an effective duopoly after brutal price wars forced out many smaller players almost a decade ago. Takeout became more expensive even as merchants and riders complained about making less. Mr Liu is now turning to an old playbook: charging restaurants no commission, generous hiring bonuses for 100,000 new full-time riders, plus a 10 billion yuan (S$1.8 billion) discounting campaign for consumers. During its flagship shopping festival this month, JD sold coffee and bubble tea for as cheap as 1.68 yuan. The food delivery war is indicative of the bifurcation in China's mammoth tech industry. On the one hand, players like DeepSeek are spurring major tech firms to invest in innovations like generative AI. On the other, the effects of Beijing's yearslong Covid lockdowns and regulatory campaigns against Big Tech still linger, and many companies are desperately searching for sources of growth in a saturated market. Mr Liu's marketing stunt is also personal. The viral videos of him waiting to pick up boxed lunches and downing beers with other riders mark a surprise return to the public eye for the 52-year-old tech mogul, who faded from the spotlight in 2018 when he was arrested in the United States on suspicion of rape, though prosecutors in Minneapolis ultimately declined to press charges. During Beijing's crackdown on the tech sector in 2022, Mr Liu joined a long list of tech founders who stepped down. His departure coincided with some of JD's toughest times since its founding as a tiny electronics outlet in 1998. Its premium online shopping service ran into China's slowing economy, its own bargain app flopped, and an overseas foray was abandoned. That left JD with no growth story, as giants Alibaba and Tencent Holdings bet big on generative AI and smaller rivals such as Meituan and Didi Global exported their gig-economy models abroad. Even Meituan has begun selling and delivering everything from iPhones to washing machines in a few hours. 'For JD, it's a lost five years, to put it bluntly,' Mr Liu said during a rare news conference at the company's Beijing headquarters on June 17. 'No innovation, no growth, no progress. It should be considered the most unremarkable and least valuable five years in my entrepreneurial history.' Explaining their rationale of getting into food delivery, Mr Liu said that it's about leveraging JD's battle-tested logistics network to acquire new users, 40 per cent of whom have already been converted into e-commerce customers. 'Our losses are smaller than what we would have spent on advertising,' he said. Not everyone is convinced. JD's takeout business could generate as much as 18 billion yuan in annualised losses, wiping out 36 per cent of its parent's operating profit for 2025, says JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Arete Research estimates that as the market leader, Meituan will only need to spend about a quarter of JD's costs to defend its position. JD's loss per order will narrow to 3 yuan in the second half of 2025 from 8 yuan this quarter as it pares back subsidies to confront the economic reality, the equity research house predicts. 'We do not think JD will find material success in local services like insta-commerce, but understand management's sense of urgency in needing to diversify its business mix and feeling threatened by Meituan,' Arete analysts wrote in a note in June. Representatives for JD, Alibaba, and Meituan didn't respond to requests for comment for this story. What's clear is that JD has injected new life into a long-dormant market. hardest hit by JD's offensive, gave out 10 billion yuan in subsidies to customers, then another 1 billion yuan to restaurants. Alibaba also integrated the takeout app into its flagship e-commerce platform Taobao in the hope of diverting more traffic to it. Meituan for the first time ever is giving away vouchers on things like smartphones and liquor during the June 18 sales event that JD invented more than a decade ago. Its founder Wang Xing declared to investors in May that it would do 'whatever measure it takes to win the game.' The renewed food-delivery battle is reminiscent of the all-out war in online shopping just years ago, when alleged abuses like forcing merchants into exclusive arrangements helped fuel Beijing's Big Tech crackdown, wiping out trillions in wealth. Though pressure has eased, government scrutiny remains heightened as high youth unemployment drives more and more people to take up gig work. Regulators in May summoned executives from the three takeout firms into meetings on fair competition and protection of riders, among other topics. By 2024, China had more than 10 million delivery riders, official data showed. In Beijing, there were 17,000 riders in the first half of 2024, up 50 per cent from a year ago. And amid growing awareness of how riders often prioritize speed over safety to earn more, said in April that it would gradually phase out a cash penalty system for riders who miss their deadlines. JD is going further in worker benefits by paying social security – a government-sponsored welfare system including pensions and medical insurance – for all of its full-time riders. Meituan and followed suit with similar policies. Tang Zequan, 36, recalls how in 2016 he could make more than 10 yuan per order as a new driver for Meituan in Guangzhou. After Meituan emerged dominant, his earnings went down to 7 yuan per order. As a high-school dropout, he acknowledges that no other job could have helped him pay off debts so quickly after his real estate brokerage business went under during Beijing's crackdown on the property market. 'I have great gratitude for the food delivery industry, but I won't pay allegiance to any firm,' Mr Tang said. 'Without choices we are left with a monopoly.' BLOOMBERG Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
The Irish Sun
28-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Watery grave of Bayesian superyacht revealed in eerie last photos as what sank vessel sparks multi-million war of words
DEEP below the deceptively crystal clear waters of Sicily's Tyrrhenian Sea, the wreck of super-yacht Bayesian is yet to give up all its secrets. These exclusive photographs are the last to be taken before dives to the London-registered vessel — which sank in a storm last year — were banned after the death of a salvage team diver. Advertisement 8 Divers from the Italian coastguard inspect the wreck of the London-registered Bayesian superyacht 163 feet below the surface Credit: ugpix 8 Strong currents swirling around the wreck reduce visibility to just a metre for the divers Credit: ugpix 8 A UK probe has revealed the £30m Bayesian superyacht may have sunk due to its towering 236ft mast making it 'vulnerable to high winds' Credit: EPA That tragic loss in an explosion three weeks ago brought the number of victims to eight, with six passengers and one crew member losing their lives when the £30million yacht sank on August 19 last year. They included multi-millionaire British tech businessman Mike Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. Veteran photographer Massimo Sestini, who dived 163 feet down to take these eerie images of the barnacle-covered wreck, knows all too well how treacherous any underwater journey can be. In January, he was left in a coma after a dive in an ice-cold Italian lake went terribly wrong. Advertisement READ MORE ON THE BAYESIAN Fortunate to survive that very close call, the 62-year-old daredevil photographer still went down to the Bayesian in April. Massimo, who has also photographed the wreck of Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, which struck a rock and partially sank in 2012, told The Sun: 'It is dangerous down there. 'It is very dark, there is a current that brings up the sand so that visibility is down to one metre at times. 'But I was not scared.' The mystery of what brought the 'unsinkable' Bayesian to its watery grave is at the centre of a multi-million-pound war of words. Advertisement Most read in The Sun This month a preliminary report by Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch — involved because the Bayesian was a UK- registered vessel — said the yacht, with its Investigators think the boat was knocked over by 100mph winds in a 'mesocyclonic storm front' just before 4am while anchored half a mile off the Sicilian fishing port of Porticello. Chilling photo of Bayesian minutes before superyacht sank reveals key clue to solving mystery of disaster that killed 7 But this theory runs counter to the one put forward by the firm which built the 184ft-long yacht. Giovanni Costantino, boss of boat-building firm TISG, or The Italian Sea Group, insisted the ship's design was safe. Advertisement Legal action He believes that one of the hatches was most likely left open, He said: 'It tilted 90 degrees for only one reason — because the water kept coming in.' It is very dark, there is a current that brings up the sand so that visibility is down to one metre at times. But I was not scared. Massimo Sestini There were rumours that divers to the wreck TISG, which owns the Perini Navi shipyard in Viareggio, Tuscany, where the Bayesian was built in 2008, has taken legal action against the New York Times for reporting in October that the single tall mast design made the vessel ' Advertisement 8 Nine months after the tragedy, the divers found the yacht's hull encrusted with marine life Credit: ugpix 8 These photographs are the last taken before dives to the London-registered vessel — which sank in a storm last year — were banned after the death of a salvage team diver Credit: ugpix 8 Vereran photographer Massimo Sestini took the snaps of the doomed vessel Credit: Instagram/massimo_sestini The Italian authorities are looking into a suspicion that the crew did not react quickly enough to the storm. Advertisement Two weeks ago the yacht's skipper, New Zealander James Cutfield, used his right to silence when magistrates tried to question him. British engineer Tim Parker-Eaton and deckhand Matthew Griffiths have also been placed under investigation. Relatives of the victims, who include chef Recaldo Thomas, 59, guests Chris and Neda Morvillo, 59 and 57, and Jonathan and Judy Bloomer, 70 and 71, may sue if negligence can be proven. Advertisement But the best chance of discovering what really happened is by returning the ill-fated boat to the surface. The risks posed by the perilous operation were made clear on May 9, when Dutch diver Robcornelis Maria Huijben Uiben, 39, was killed in an explosion as he tried to cut the yacht's boom — a pole along the bottom of a sail — with an oxy-acetylene torch. When I saw the cold images of super-professional divers of the wreck on the screen, my heart sank. Massimo Sestini The boom was the first part of the Bayesian to be recovered last week, and Advertisement That means Massimo, from Florence, was the last person to have the chance to photograph the wreck. But he insisted the dive did not remind him of his brush with death in Lake Lavarone, in northern Italy , at the end of January. He had stopped breathing under the icy water when there was a malfunction with his air supply. But fortunately a diving instructor was on hand to rescue him. Massimo, who has snapped the then Prince Charles and Princess Diana during a 40-year career, was taken to hospital in a 'critical condition'. Advertisement The photographer said: 'I feel so privileged because I have a new life. 'For this, a special thank you goes to those who saved me.' His previous exploits include leaning out of helicopters and perching on the end of a ship's rigging to get the best images possible. But watching a coastguard diver inspect the wreck of the Bayesian did remind Massimo of the people who drowned inside the yacht nine months ago. Advertisement He said: 'When I saw the cold images of super-professional divers of the wreck on the screen, my heart sank. 'I thought of the seven people who died in the shipwreck.' 8 Brit Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah perished when the Bayesian went down Credit: PA 8 Rescue workers in Porticello, Italy, after the tragedy Credit: EPA Advertisement
