A SAVVY fashionista has revealed the epic Tesco clothing haul she bagged in the 25% off sale – and urged people to run for a “beautiful” co-ord.
Lara Mercer, from Scotland, regularly shares her shopping hauls and style inspiration on her TikTok page (@laralouisemercer).
In a recent video, the mum showed off the “perfect for holiday” summer buys she picked up in the supermarket this week.
Tesco’s in-house fashion label, F&F, is renowned for its stylish buys at affordable prices.
But Clubcard users can save an extra 25% on items if they purchase them before Sunday, June 29.
Lara, a size 14, had only nipped to the supermarket to grab bin bags and coffee when she stumbled across the promotional signs in the F&F aisles.
“Why did no one tell me there was 25% off?” she cried.
“Obviously that roped me in, and there was so much [new things]. I didn’t think there would be, I felt like I was only just there last week.
“They had loads of sizes as well. So Monday mornings are a good time to go to Tesco guys.”
First up, she bagged a £25 black and white polka dot satin midi dress which she described as “just beautiful”.
She also found a gold sheer metallic dress for £19.50 that she insists is so pretty you’ll want to wear it by the pool and at night time too.
She gushed: “How beautiful is that? Oh my god. That on holiday, some chunky jewellery.
“It’s got this wee slip dress inside which is perfect so it’s not see-through. So you could probably wear it at night as well. Obsessed. The colour is just everything.
“Guys it’s a win win any time that’s on. It’s just a bargain.”
Next, the Scots fashionista picked up a £22.50 cream crochet mini dress that she said would be the perfect day-to-night outfit if you “get a wee slip dress or Skims underneath”.
Lara styled it with a gold belt to cinch in the waist, and sized up to a large for a comfy look.
But it was two summery co-ords that she was most impressed with.
She bagged a £25 white maxi skirt with a black floral pattern, sizing down to a size 12, and matching bandeau crop top for £14.
She hailed the outfit as “the perfect co-ord for your holiday”, adding: “How stunning is this? I genuinely love it.
“It’s not anything I would ever wear, especially the long skirt. But I am obsessed. The print, the fit, the black and white. Oh my god, I want to scream.
“How beautiful is that print? Oh my goodness. Love it. Love, love, love.
“And it’s got this stretchy material at the back.”
She also tracked down a pretty sage green high-waisted mini skirt and tie-front waistcoat, priced at £22.50 each.
“Look at the colours of that. That sage green, all embroidered”, she gushed.
“This is going to be the new viral co-ord 100 per cent. It’s stunning. And it’s really good quality, it’s lined as well.
“This is beautiful, I can 100 per cent guarantee this is going to sell out so quick.”
Lara’s haul should have set her back £151 in total, but she managed to get it for just £113.25, saving £37.75.
She said: “When you’ve got the 25% off it makes a good bit of difference.”
And fashion fans were loving her gorgeous picks, with her video racking up 49,000 views.
One gushed: “Love the waistcoat co-ord set and the swimsuit cover up, you have styled so well. Running to Tesco.”
“You look great in all of them”, someone else added.
Meanwhile, a third wrote: “You just keep finding better outfits.”
While you’re in store, you may also want to keep an eye out for the £19.50 ‘chuck on’ summer dress that is “gorgeous on” and comes in three colours.
Fashion fans are in a frenzy over the “prettiest” £35 Tesco dress too – it’s perfect for weddings and comes in on-trend, classy colour.
Elsewhere, shoppers have fallen in love with Tu’s Yellow Striped Tie Detail Midaxi Tea Dress, which is priced at £28.
DEPUTY Fashion Editor Abby McHale weighs in:
The supermarkets have really upped their game when it comes to their fashion lines. These days, as you head in to do your weekly food shop you can also pick up a selection of purse-friendly, stylish pieces for all the family.
Tesco has just announced a 0.7 per cent increase in the quarter thanks to a ‘strong growth in clothing’ and M&S has earnt the title of the number one destination for womenswear on the high street.
Asda’s clothing line George has made £1.5 million for the supermarket in 2023, 80 per cent of Sainsbury’s clothes sold at full price rather than discounted and Nutmeg at Morrisons sales are also up 2 per cent in the past year.
So what is it about supermarket fashion that is becoming so successful?
Apart from the clothing actually being affordable, it’s good quality too – with many being part of schemes such as the Better Cotton Initiative.
A lot of the time they keep to classic pieces that they know will last the customer year after year.
Plus because they buy so much stock they can turn around pieces quickly and buy for cheaper because of the volumes.
WHEN John Fogerty walks out on to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage tomorrow, he will be taking care of unfinished business – in more ways than one.
After a struggle dating back more than 50 years, he finally owns the publishing rights to the much-loved songs he wrote as Creedence Clearwater Revival’s chief creative force.
“For most of my life, I’ve been angry, hurt and frustrated,” Fogerty tells me.
“Not owning the songs meant that I didn’t control their destiny. I didn’t get to say what movie they’d be in or whether they could be used in a commercial.
“But the unease I’ve felt all these years is now at peace.”
It means he can belt out Proud Mary, Born On The Bayou, Bad Moon Rising and Up Around The Bend with unbridled joy rather than lingering bitterness.
Should the heavens open on Worthy Farm, he will have the perfect response with Who’ll Stop The Rain.
If it stays dry, as is forecast, he can unleash Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Isn’t that great for an artist who couldn’t bear to sing Creedence songs for the first 25 years of his fight to reclaim his legacy?
As he heads to the Somerset countryside, another motivating factor for Fogerty is that his last visit to Glastonbury, 18 years ago, was less than satisfactory.
Now he says: “I want to go there and kick butt!” A month’s worth of rain fell during festival weekend in 2007, making it the wettest Glastonbury on record and reducing the huge site to a quagmire.
“It rained like a son of a gun,” reports the rock legend who turned 80 in May.
“It was so muddy, and somewhat chaotic, with all these people wearing rubber boots.”
Fogerty recalls playing “very, very well” despite challenging conditions. “But we were almost fighting for survival just to stay above water and put on a good show.”
He continues: “We went on way after our start time and, near the end of our set, a big commotion was going on.
“People were shouting, ‘You have to come off!’ Proud Mary was meant to be our last song but they pulled the power. That didn’t leave a good taste!”
He compares his experience to the festival which took place in August, 1969 — the daddy of them all, Woodstock.
Creedence were one of the headline acts for “3 Days Of Peace & Music” on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in upstate New York, attended by half a million people.
The band were at the peak of their powers, selling more records that year than any other act in the world, INCLUDING The Beatles.
“The rain and mud very much figured into everything at Woodstock,” he says.
When Creedence finally appeared in the early hours of Sunday morning, at least the deluge had subsided.
But Fogerty adds: “My frustration with Woodstock was that we went on very late.
“The Grateful Dead had been on for well over an hour, a lot of that time with no music coming from the stage. Half the audience was asleep!”
Fifty-six years later, I’m speaking to Fogerty as he puts past disappointments aside to ensure that his appearance at Sir Michael Eavis’s dairy farm is a rock ’n’ rolling success.
“I want to be great and I’m looking forward to it,” he says, “especially as I’m playing with my sons [Shane and Tyler].”
I’m meeting Fogerty in the dimly lit basement bar of a hotel in the heart of London’s Soho.
The trademark checked flannel shirt is present and correct. He still sports a full head of hair, though perhaps not as impressive as the fulsome mop seen during his early years in the limelight.
Unafraid to be outspoken — just what you’d expect of a rock elder statesman — he soon lights up the room.
Fogerty is marking the end of his fight to get his songs back with an album called Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years.
As with his live shows, it was made in the company of his sons and it summons all the old fire and brimstone.
He says: “It was absolutely wonderful to be making this record with Shane and Tyler — in keeping with the tradition of a father passing on his work to his sons.”
Each track comes with the words John’s Version in brackets after the title, echoing the Taylor’s Version re-recordings by the world’s biggest singing star.
At a time when Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Sting have been selling off their back catalogues for vast sums, Fogerty and a certain Ms Swift have “done the opposite”.
“I even lobbied to call mine Taylor’s Version,” he laughs. “That would have been good marketing.”
On a more serious note, Fogerty says he understands why those other legends have sold their rights.
“Miraculously, they owned their stuff from a young age. They had better representation,” he says.
“But it’s been a quest all my life to gain the ownership I never had.”
It all came about because the head of his small record label Fantasy, the late Saul Zaentz, acquired the rights before Creedence Clearwater Revival hit the big time — and wouldn’t let go.
“It was awful,” admits Fogerty. “If it had been RCA or EMI, some huge conglomerate, and we were a little rock band, you might expect that sort of relationship.
“But this became very personal. I knew Saul Zaentz and he was a nothing, like I was a nothing before I started writing those songs.
“A song like Run Through The Jungle hadn’t even been written but it was already owned by Saul because of a piece of paper — the contract I signed.
“So, I had a lot of ill will towards him because he treated me so meanly. He was arrogant and dismissive.”
After years of legal proceedings and despair, Fogerty credits a very special person in his life for helping to get his songs back.
“My dear wife Julie fought for this and made it happen,” he says. “It has changed my life. It has changed everything.”
Now it’s time for a quick Creedence recap.
The four members, Fogerty (lead vocals and guitar), his brother Tom (rhythm guitar), Stu Cook (bass) and Doug Clifford (drums) first got together in 1959.
They met at high school in El Cerrito, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
As The Blue Velvets, they enjoyed little success and had to endure their name being changed by a record company executive to The Golly***s, which they hated.
I want to be great and I’m looking forward to it, especially as I’m playing with my sons
John Fogerty
Only when they became Creedence Clearwater Revival in January, 1968, did everything start falling into place — creatively if not contractually, that is.
Their self-titled debut album featured their first hit, a cover of Dale Hawkins’ Suzie Q, and Fogerty’s most significant early composition, Porterville.
He says: “I wrote Porterville while on active duty in the military, marching around in unbearable heat and going into a hallucinating mental state.
“Everything was coming to life in my mind and that was pretty new for me. The song is a bit autobiographical, especially about my father/son situation. It captured my feelings in those times.”
Porterville is the oldest Fogerty song to get a stirring 2025 reboot on his new album.
Many of the other songs first appeared during his golden year of 1969 when inspiration came thick and fast — and THREE top ten albums were released.
He says: “The wonderful thing was that it was all organic and created by the band — not some publicity machine or a record label.
“We didn’t have a manager, we didn’t have a publisher, we weren’t on a big label, so I thought I’d just have to do it with music.
“My bandmates became resistant to all this work but I was the one staying up every night, usually until 4am, writing songs.
“I took it on because, in my mind, I was really the only one of us who could do it.
“I kept kicking myself in the butt instead of going on a vacation or acquiring a bunch of material things. It felt like a matter of life and death.”
The first of the three albums, Bayou Country, served notice of Californian Fogerty’s infatuation with America’s Deep South.
I ask him why he relocated, in his mind at least, to the Mississippi Delta and wrote such songs as Proud Mary and Born On The Bayou.
Fogerty says: “I was doing that intuitively. Starting with Susie Q, the way I played the guitar seemed to have a Southern feel.
“As for the musical stars I loved, the spookier the better. People like Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf and Slim Harpo.
“There was something so mysterious about what they were doing, almost untouchable, but I wanted to go in there and let it resonate.”
He adds with a wry smile: “I realise this sounds a little strange for a white, middle- class boy but my writing comes from deep inside.”
Fogerty recalls movies set in the South having a big impact — Swamp Water with Dana Andrews and Walter Brennan, The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis.
He affirms: “At later times in my life, after the band broke up and through all kinds of trends, I’ve always thought that bluesy, supernatural place is where I’m at my best.”
I invite Fogerty to explain how his most famous song, Proud Mary, came into being.
He describes the “happy confluence” of things going on in his life that “miraculously came out in that song”.
“I’d just got my honourable discharge from the army. I was very happy about it,” he says.
“Most of us didn’t want to go into the jungle [in Vietnam] without knowing why and have to fight an unseen person, perhaps die doing it.”
Fogerty remembers the euphoric moment he arrived home: “I immediately went into the house and started playing chords on my little guitar that were slightly reminiscent of Beethoven’s 5th.
“With that happy feeling, I got to a place where I was ‘rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river’. I thought, ‘Oh, I like that but what am I writing about?’”
He dived into the songbook he’d been keeping and saw the words “Proud Mary” at the top of the first page.
At the bottom of the page, which yielded Bad Moon Rising and Sinister Purpose as well, was the word “riverboat”.
Cue a lightbulb moment for Fogerty. “I thought, ‘Proud Mary, oh, that’s the name of a boat!’
“There is so much Americana in that idea. Hopes and dreams connected to this boat, which is connected to the Mississippi, which is connected to hundreds of years of folklore.
“I didn’t try to make it happen but it converged right there in the perfect way.”
I was a team player but the idea of relinquishing and letting the others write the songs seemed like career suicide.
John Fogerty
Did Fogerty like the Ike & Tina Turner version of Proud Mary which hit No4 in the US singles chart in 1971?
“I loved it,” he replies. “The first time I heard it, I was in the car. It was dark, somewhere around seven o’clock, so it must have been winter, and it came on the radio.
“I’d been a Tina fan for years. In fact, since hearing It’s Gonna Work Out Fine at a club [in 1961], I was always pulling for her.”
Proud Mary took pride of place on Bayou Country and the hits kept on rolling through the next four Creedence LPs — Green River (1969), Willy And The Poor Boys (1969), Cosmo’s Factory (1970) and Pendulum (1970).
One of Fogerty’s best songs was searing Fortunate Son which took aim at rich families paying for their children to avoid the draft while poor kids went off to fight.
By way of explanation, he says: “I grew up in a lower- middle-class situation — not at poverty level but many times it felt like it.
My parents divorced and my mom had five boys to raise. There was certainly an element of us being behind the eight ball.
“We had a basement that flooded every time it rained. It felt like a semi-prison at times.
“The funny thing is, I’ve earned millions of dollars in my life, right? But I still feel like that kid in that room.”
By the time of 1972’s disastrous Mardi Gras album, which shared songwriting duties rather than rely solely on Fogerty, irreparable cracks appeared — and Creedence split in circumstances that he likens to a bitter divorce.
“I was pretty sure that none of the other fellas could come up with anything like I was doing,” he says. “Before a rehearsal, I’d say, ‘Does anybody have anything?’ They would look at their toes, so I just kept going.
“I was a team player but the idea of relinquishing and letting the others write the songs seemed like career suicide.”
Things came to a head at a band meeting in late 1970 when Fogerty’s brother Tom said he wouldn’t be in the band “if it stays the way it is”.
“I had to relent because I realised there would be no band otherwise. So, I gave everybody what they wanted, then it fell apart anyway.”
Tom Fogerty was first to leave and sadly died aged just 48, never reconciling with his younger brother.
John says: “When Tom left, it broke my heart.
“He was clearly disliking me and even said publicly that Saul Zaentz was his best friend. That hurt me and drove my anger.
“When Tom passed away, we had not come to grips with the situation but, years later, I made a point in my heart and my mind to forgive him.
“I realise we both messed up but I expect to meet Tom in the afterlife, and that everything will be joyful.”
Speaking of joyful, it’s the perfect word to describe John Fogerty’s return to Glastonbury.
Festival-goers will be surprised at how many of his songs they can sing along to.
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years
RTE Fair City viewers have all been left shocked after Liam snatched Ger’s locket and destroyed the photos inside.
On tonight’s episode, with her flight back to Spain booked, Ger visited Sharon to say goodbye.
Ger asked Dean to tell Georgie to keep his mouth shut about the picture inside of her locket.
The locket contained an SD card containing a picture of well-known gangster Aidan O’Rourke shaking somebody’s hand.
When Liam overheard Dean warning Georgie about the photos inside the locket, he demanded answers from them.
However, when Liam confronted Ger, she tried to throw him off and insisted the picture inside was of her aunt.
Liam then spotted the locket around Ger’s neck and took the opportunity to snatch it and destroy the SD card.
RTE viewers were all quick to react as the drama unfolded.
Ellen wrote on X: “Sweet Jesus what was that?”
Thomas said: “Ger is bound to be clever enough to have a false card in the locket.”
While Adam added: “There’s no way he’s just gone and destroyed it.”
And John remarked: “Why would she wear the locket down to the pub.”
Elsewhere, Emma told Holly that she managed to secure her the job with the interiors company, despite the failed interview.
A stunned Holly tried to tell her that she had already got another job, but Emma insisted she could leave it for the interiors role as she was eager to get her discounts.
While that was happening, James encountered Mondo and Holly working together and Holly was forced to come clean to Emma.
Cass was enraged when Nikki showed him the comments on his latest video, making fun of the tacky filters and images Kira had added to his stories.
Kira begged him to give her another chance with the videos, insisting that he would have full creative control, but he refused.
Later when a letter arrived from the National Museum asking to authenticate his Michael Collins teaspoon, Kira was thrilled.
Cass, however, was anxious.
Separately, Ray surprised Leo by revealing he had fast-tracked the cab repair, just like Pete asked but they quickly realised it was a setup.
When Ray revealed Pete had orchestrated the plan so that he could be Nora’s boules partner, Nora called it quits with Pete.
Now partnerless again, a dejected Pete apologised to Nora and Ray.
Hughie admitted that his shoulder was too sore to play and suggested that Pete ask Jacinta if he could take over from him.
RTE star Doireann Garrihy has told how she was almost “outed” before announcing her pregnancy.
The 2FM host revealed she was expecting her first child with husband Mark Mehigan back in April – but the star has now admitted the news was close to being leaked before she had the chance to share it herself.
On a recent episode of her hit podcast, Doireann & Friends, the radio star and her sister, Ailbhe Garrihy discussed their experience with pregnancy.
Ailbhe then asked Doireann to share some of the “crazy” stories she’d never told her—before revealing that she was pregnant.
The Dancing With The Stars host explained: “When I hadn’t announced I was pregnant, one person kept writing to me on Instagram saying ‘I think you have news for your followers’.”
Ailbhe sighed and said: “Ugh that is so annoying.”
Doireann continued: “So when I got that message my brain went into overdrive and I just thought, ‘I’ve been seen in the hospital, I look pregnant, who have a I said it to that has maybe said to someone else?’.
“And this wasn’t like a faceless account, it was a totally normal woman in her 40s.”
Ailbhe remarked: “I just don’t know what goes through people’s minds to send that.”
The TV star agreed: “Exactly, this is the thing. You’ve had experiences like this before too, when people have been like, ‘Oh yeah I knew’, and you have no idea how they knew or found out.
“Surely women need to understand to just say nothing.”
Ailbhe added: “But even if you were spotted in the hospital, you could have been in there for multiple reasons.”
Doireann responded: “That is what I don’t get, there are many reasons why a woman might find themselves in a maternity hospital, it doesn’t automatically mean you are expecting.”
The popular presenter admitted that she had always tried to be “so aware” of the fact that she might bump into someone she knows while getting a scan.
She said: “You just have to act like you don’t see them and if you do see them just say, ‘How’s it going, how are you?’, but never ask why they are there.
“It should be a part of girl code.”
The popular presenter went on to suggest that waiting rooms in maternity hospitals should have signs warning people that it is a “confidential place”.
Doireann uploaded a clip of her chat with Ailbhe to Instagram and wrote in her caption: “Since this week’s episode, so many have shared stories about being “outed” by someone who spotted them in a maternity hospital.
“I think it is so wrong and wonder if some sort of etiquette should be formally introduced.”
Fans all agreed with the star’s statement in the comment section.
Aoife wrote: “I really think people should have a bit more cop on.”
Mandy said: “I 100 percent agree. You never really know another woman’s story.”
Julie remarked: “Surely it’s an unwritten rule or common decency??!!”
And Eva added: “I thought it was just general kindness and common sense.”
KYLIAN MBAPPE has accused former club PSG of “moral harassment” as the legal battle took a fresh turn.
France and Real Madrid ace Mbappe is already claiming the French champions owe him £55m from his final year before his free transfer move to Spain.
But in a separate development, Mbappe, 26, is also arguing PSG ownership attempted to strong arm him into signing a new deal rather than letting his contract run down.
And it means the damaging dispute between the two sides will play out even further.
In the latest twist, Mbappe filed an official complaint with the French courts against PSG last month, with two examining magistrates now appointed to investigate the claims.
Mbappe alleges that the incidents took place in the summer of 2023, ahead of his final year at PSG, when he was excluded from the first-team squad and placed in the club’s “loft” of unwanted players.
His lawyers allege that the move to isolate Mbappe was PSG attempting to coerce him into signing a new deal, with the claim saying that it added up to “psychological pressure” and the “attempted extortion of a signature.”
The new move comes with the wages claim also set to be played out in the courts.
Mbappe claims PSG owe him his final three months’ salary and bonuses from that last season in Paris, with the club insisting he waived the payments as a condition of his release.
Meanwhile, Mbappe is ruled out of Madrid’s final group game in the Club World Cup against Salzburg tonight as he recovers from the bout of gastroenteritis that saw him briefly hospitalised for tests last week.
The France striker has not featured in the tournament so far but will be available for Madrid’s last-16 game on Tuesday.
Mbappe returned to the gym this week in a bid to get back to full fitness before the next round.
Reports in Spain have claimed that he lost between four and five kilograms due to the virus.
It is believed that he may have contracted the illness back in Madrid before flying to the US earlier this month.
A STALKER of former BBC presenter Emily Maitlis will serve extra prison time after writing her letters from jail.
Edward Vines, 55, wrote to Ms Maitlis and her family while locked up for harassing her.
Twenty letters were sent over ten months to February 2024 — but were intercepted by staff at HMP Lowdham Grange.
Former Newsnight host Maitlis has said her fear of Vines’ behaviour is “like a chronic illness”.
Nottingham crown court heard she ended their friendship at university in 1990 — after he told her he loved her.
Vines was jailed for eight years in 2022, but was sentenced to a further five years for breaching and attempting to breach a restraining order.
In a short victim personal statement read to the court by prosecutor Fergus Malone, Mailtis wrote: “For over 30 years I have been living with the consequences of the persistent and unwanted attention of this individual.
“I feel especially vulnerable and worried when the matter comes to trial.
“The idea that he might be bailed is deeply worrying and I would be very concerned for my safety and the safety of my family.”
She also described her husband finding Vines on their doorstep, her children needing to be escorted to the school bus, and “upsetting interactions” with her 92-year-old mother.
Judge Mark Watson said: “His imprisonment is the only thing stopping him from contacting the Maitlis family directly.”
THIS is the dramatic moment a £50,000 electric vehicle explodes into a huge fireball – destroying both cars next to it.
The shocking footage shows the Mercedes EQA going up in flames in a matter of seconds while parked up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
It can be seen smoking for a few seconds before it spontaneously explodes in the quiet residential street.
The explosion – which set a nearby shed ablaze and damaged part of the road – is believed to have been caused by a faulty battery.
The blaze also destroyed two other nearby cars.
James Musonda, who owns the courtesy car, was woken up by the loud bang, mistakenly thinking a tree had fallen on his house.
The 33-year-old pensioner consultant told MailOnline that he was “hysterical” when he eventually realised it was his car and has vowed to steer clear of EVs.
He said: “When I realised it was my car I was screaming and hysterical.
“All I could see was flames when I opened the door. We couldn’t get out the house because of the flames.
“My daughter was in the house. I could have died if I was in that car.”
Mr Musonda continued to explain that the fire brigade managed to get them out, but it kept making little explosions.
They were left very shaken up, and left keen to keep their distance from electric cars.
Fire crews attended the scene until noon the following day,
The Mercedes was recalled to the factory for “safety work” by the German manufacturer in October 2024.
The father-of-one explained that Mercedes had the car until mid-January this year.
The incident occurred six weeks after he got his car back.
Mercedes told MailOnline that it was sorry to learn of the incident that took place in March.
A spokesperson explained that the customer services team have been in contact with Mr Musonda and have kept him mobile in a courtesy car.
In October last year, a similar incident occurred in Northamptonshire, when CCTV captured the terrifying moment an electric Mercedes went up in flames.
The owner of the vehicle, Scott Bayliss said: “The pace and ferocity at which the fire took hold and engulfed the entire car and pretty much the entire front of our house was scary beyond belief.
He also explained that the initial investigator concluded that the vehicle was in such a bad state that it was difficult to establish what the fault was.
A Mercedes spokesperson said the company could not comment while the investigation was ongoing, but did stress that the company had reached out to the family.
A 70,000 Alfa Romeo was also caught bursting into flames in a Birmingham shopping centre carpark last December.
The terrifying moment saw emergency crews rush to the fourth floor of Selfridges Moor Street to put out the blaze, which managed to destroy one other car.
In an update, a fire service spokesman reported: “Faulty engine from a petrol powered car caused this fire.
An incident recently occurred in Bournemouth too, which saw a 27-year-old woman narrowly escape the flames.
The vehicle suddenly erupted into flames while the driver was dropping off her fiance.
The driver who was inside the car told the news site “it just started smoking and I got out of the car, then it caught fire”.
