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A former owner of Missguided, the youth fashion brand, is in talks to buy Kurt Geiger, the upmarket shoe and accessories retailer.Sky News has learnt that Alteri Investors, which was backed by the global private equity giant Apollo Management when it launched a decade ago, is among a number of parties in discussions about a takeover of the 61-year-old footwear brand. City sources said this weekend that the talks were at an early stage and were not being held on an exclusive basis.Several other parties are also considering bids for Kurt Geiger, which has been owned by Cinven, the private…

Foo Fighters have cancelled their first official gig since Dave Grohl admitted to being unfaithful to his wife of over 20 years and fathering a child with another woman.The band shared a post on their official Instagram page on Thursday night saying they would no longer be appearing at Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut, this weekend. They did not give a reason for the cancellation. Image: Grohl with (from left) daughter Harper Grohl, wife Jordyn Blum, and daughters Ophelia and Violet. Pic: AP Earlier this month, the band’s frontman Grohl told fans via a statement on Instagram that he’d…

Elon Musk has lashed out at the UK after reports he had been snubbed by a government investment summit. The tech billionaire hasn’t been invited to the summit next month after his posts on his X platform regarding the violent riots in the UK last month, according to a BBC report. In response, he made the inaccurate claim that the government was releasing convicted paedophiles to allow for the imprisonment of people over social media posts.”I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted paedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts,” Mr Musk said…

Boeing and union negotiators will meet later in a fresh bid to end strikes by workers that have hammered plane production, exacerbating the fallout from the company’s safety crisis.The company, which is bidding to revive its fortunes under a new chief executive, has more than 32,000 staff refusing to work. They walked out of factories in the Seattle area and in Oregon, which make aircraft including its 737 MAX models, on 13 September in protest at new contracts.The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is demanding the workers get a 40% pay rise.It is also seeking the restoration…

Scottish comedian Janey Godley has revealed she is receiving end-of-life care for her terminal cancer.The 63-year-old, who found viral fame with her dubbed imitations of Nicola Sturgeon’s COVID-19 news briefings during the pandemic, announced she will be going into a hospice in a video on X on Wednesday evening. She first said she had ovarian cancer in November 2021, but was given the all-clear the following year when a scan showed “no evidence of the disease”.But another scan had shown signs of the disease in her abdomen, she later announced, adding she would continue touring. X This content is provided…

Dame Judi Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina will all voice Meta AI – the artificial intelligence being rolled out by Instagram and Facebook owner Meta.As part of an update to its Llama model, people will now be able to interact with Meta AI – the company’s ChatGPT-like chatbot – by speaking and getting responses from the celebrities. Frozen’s Kristen Bell and comedian Keegan-Michael Key will also be options.During Meta’s annual Connect conference, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg also showed off Orion, a set of smart glasses he described as “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen”.As well as Orion,…

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed a further £500m investment in its Halewood plant on Merseyside to bolster future production of all-electric cars at the site.The country’s largest automotive manufacturer, which revealed plans in 2023 to produce the first emission-free model at Halewood in early 2025, is now targeting a timeframe later that year. It signalled a greater ambition for Halewood at a time when global demand for new cars remains constrained.The plant, which currently makes hybrid, diesel and petrol-powered Range Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport models, has already been expanded to allow for electric vehicle (EV) production to run…

A toy company must pay $71.5m (£53m) for making dolls infringing the name and likeness of a US teen pop group.OMG Girlz sued MGA Entertainment over its LOL Surprise! OMG dolls, arguing the company had copied their look and brand. On Tuesday, the group finally won the long-running intellectual property case after a California jury agreed they had been ripped off.It awarded $17.9m (£13.3m) in real damages and $53.6m (£39.9m) in punitive damages, saying their “trade dress” and “name, likeness and identity” had been infringed. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies.…

Heart conditions are the “number one killer for women”, experts have said, but cases are being “ignored” and more must be done to stop “preventable” deaths.A group of leading heart specialists have warned the “misconception” that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a “man’s disease”, has contributed to cases among women going “under-recognised and undertreated”. Writing in the journal Heart, the academics said most heart disease is “preventable” so more should be done to “ensure parity of care for women with CVD”.Lead author, Professor Vijay Kunadian, said: “Heart disease, in particular coronary artery disease, is the number one killer for women in…

Crime rose sharply in Co-op shops over the last six months, with 950 offences taking place every day, the business said. The cost of theft and fraud in Co-op’s food business rose to £39.5m in the first half of 2024 alone. Compared to the same time a year earlier, it cost 19% more, up from £33.3m. Across the half-year period, 172,008 incidents took place, 4% more than in 2023.Money blog: US suing Visa in case that could have global implicationsIn an effort to bring down stealing, Co-op began testing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in 14 shops to detect…