The upmarket shoe retailer Kurt Geiger is being groomed for a £400m sale by its private equity backers. Sky News has learnt that Cinven is working with advisers at Bank of America on a prospective auction of the brand. City sources said on Tuesday that a sale process was expected to begin in the coming
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The rate of inflation failed to nudge downwards as expected last month, remaining at an annual rate of 6.7% according to official figures. The headline consumer prices index (CPI) measure had been predicted to slow to 6.6% in September by a Reuters poll of economists. The higher than expected number – largely a consequence of
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced it is investigating leading boiler manufacturer Worcester Bosch over whether it has been misleading consumers by marketing a range of gas boilers as “hydrogen-blend ready”. The regulator – which is responsible for enforcing consumer protection law – said its focus will be on whether “claims made about
More than one million emergency parcels are expected to be distributed by food banks this winter due to an “unprecedented need” for help, a charity has warned. The Trussell Trust network, which supports more than 1,300 food bank centres across the UK, has forecast that more than 600,000 people will rely on food banks from
The only cancer hospital in Gaza has been forced to shut down due to fuel shortages – as Israel bombed areas of southern Gaza where it told Palestinians to flee, killing dozens. Amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the Turkish Friendship Hospital – which is home to the area’s only oncology unit
Hamas’s attack on Israel has given rise to the largest-scale hostage crisis in the country’s 75-year history. About 200 people have been captured and taken into Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Over the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict, armed Palestinian groups have taken dozens of Israelis captive. The vast majority have been Israeli Defence
Conservative HQ is claiming the Tory vote share in two upcoming by-elections could halve to around 30%, based on telephone canvassing data over recent days. The resignation of two Tory MPs have triggered by-elections this Thursday in Tamworth, Staffordshire and Mid Bedfordshire, with the party fighting hard to hold on to both. Party officials say
The younger of two British sisters who were said to be missing after the Hamas attack on Israel has died. Yahel, 13, and Noiya, 16, disappeared from Be’eri kibbutz after it was raided. The family has been informed of Yahel’s death today, Sky News understands. Their mother, Lianne, was killed and their father, Eli, is
Rivian is rolling out one of its most significant software updates to date starting this evening. We’ve been driving the R1S version around for the better part of two weeks and can take you through what’s new and what it is like to use. The Rivian 2023.38 software leaked almost two weeks ago, and shortly
The floating solar photovoltaic power plant by EDPR Sunseap Group, a unit of Energias de Portugal SA, in Woodlands, in Singapore, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Bryan van der Beek | Bloomberg | Getty Images Southeast Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. As energy demand grows, the region is turning to
President Joe Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday, amid fears about the war with Hamas expanding into a larger conflict. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News alerts on a smartphone or tablet via
Government exhibit in Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial Source: SDNY In afternoon testimony on Monday, former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh told a Manhattan jury about two one-on-one meetings he held with Sam Bankman-Fried last year to discuss the dire state of the crypto firm’s finances. Singh, who joined sister hedge fund Alameda Research in 2017
Donald Trump is suing a private investigations firm over “shocking and scandalous” claims that he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia. The former US president is suing Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based company co-founded by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, over a dossier containing rumours about him that caused a storm before his 2017 presidential
Associated Press Oct 16, 2023, 02:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods has another world-class field for his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Still to be determined is whether he is part of it. Woods on Monday announced 19 players in the 20-man field for Albany Golf Club the first
Rachel Riley says it’s difficult to witness the “hideous” Israel-Hamas war because – as a mother – her own children remind her of what’s happening to families trapped inside the conflict. The Countdown star, who has two young daughters, told Sky News the events were “unthinkable,” and her thoughts were with all the families “going
Rolls-Royce Holdings, the aircraft engine manufacturer, is to axe more than 2,000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting drive by its new chief executive. Sky News has learnt that the Derby-based company is expected to announce plans to lay off around 2,500 staff as soon as Tuesday. The cuts will be distributed across its global
The Guardian has not renewed its cartoonist’s contract after he claimed his artwork depicting the Israeli prime minister was “spiked”. Steve Bell’s cartoon showed Benjamin Netanyahu preparing to operate on his own stomach wearing boxing gloves, where an outline of the Gaza Strip could be seen with the caption “residents of Gaza, get out now”.
Two people have been shot dead in central Brussels, according to Belgian media reports. It is being reported that both victims were wearing Swedish football shirts, ahead of the country’s Euro qualifier match against Belgium this evening in the capital. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please
“If I go back, I’ll be murdered. And it will be the government’s fault that I was murdered.” That is the stark assessment of Anna, a victim of sex trafficking, who faces removal from the UK under the new Illegal Migration Act. Anna, not her real name, was trafficked to the UK from Albania, to
According to data put together by Visual Capitalist, the cost of replacing your next-gen RAM 1500 REV’s battery could exceed $25,000 in components alone. Based on information from Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, VC put together a cost estimate comparison of various EV batteries. The RAM 1500 REV’s massive top-tier 229kWh pack was the most expensive by