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A lifeguard who appeared in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie has died after being attacked by a shark off Oahu in Hawaii.Tamayo Perry, 49, who has also starred in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Blue Crush, was attacked near Goat Island on Sunday afternoon, Honolulu’s emergency services said. The incident was reported by a caller who said they had seen a man suffering from what appeared to be shark bites.Emergency services arrived at the scene on Malaekahana Beach just before 1pm local time.Rescuers brought Mr Perry – an Ocean Safety lifeguard and surfing instructor – to shore by…

Investors in Getir, the food delivery app which is abandoning its UK operations, have approved a break-up of the company that will trigger a fresh capital injection of up to $250m (£277m).Sky News has learnt that Getir, which is based in Turkey, held an extraordinary general meeting on Sunday at which shareholders backed plans to split it into two independent companies. The first will consist of its food and grocery delivery operations in Turkey, and will be majority-owned and controlled by Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi state investment fund.Money latest:I bought a new car but it’s been back to dealership six…

Taylor Swift’s American football player boyfriend made a surprise appearance on stage during her performance at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. Travis Kelce, 34, appeared in a morning suit, bust out a few dance moves and carried the singer, who pretended to faint, to a red sofa during the middle of the show. His appearance during the short skit, where Swift appears to “drop dead” during the song The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, sent the crowd of almost 90,000 wild.The US pop star then changed into a two-piece sequin costume – while Kelce pretended to top up her makeup -…

A pack of trade and private equity suitors are circling Evri, one of Britain’s biggest parcel delivery companies.Sky News has learnt that Apollo Global Management and Platinum Equity are among the parties which have lodged initial offers for Evri, which is reportedly worth around £2bn. City sources said that a number of strategic bidders were also participating in the auction, which is being run by bankers at Rothschild.Evri, which changed its name from Hermes in 2022, uses more than 20,000 couriers and has a network of over 14,000 ParcelShops and lockers. Image: Pic: PA It is used by a large…

Summer is finally here, holidays are on the horizon and bottles of sunscreen are being dusted off from the back of the bathroom cupboard. This is often the time of the year when we start thinking about skin protection – even if we know it should be a year-round concern. Some of the UK’s most popular sunscreens have failed safety tests, offering far less protection than promised.But from UVA and UVB to SPF, what do all the acronyms on the bottle mean – and what’s important for protecting your skin?Here is what you need to know. What is the difference between…

Andrew Onwubolu, who goes by the stage name Rapman, says he wants to tell the “black experience” of ordinary life in his new sci-fi show.Set in south London, the Netflix series Supacell follows five people who unexpectedly develop supernatural powers. Doctor Who’s Tosin Cole leads the cast as Michael Lasaki, a delivery driver who gains the power to move through time.He discovers his partner Dionne (Adelayo Adedayo) is going to die in a few weeks but there is a way to stop it happening.Unknown to each other and each equipped with their own unique superpower, across six episodes five Londoners…

The roll-call of UK-listed companies to have attracted foreign takeover approaches this year is a long and distinguished one.It includes Anglo American, the mining giant; International Distribution Services, the parent of Royal Mail; Darktrace, one of the world’s most exciting cyber security specialists and DS Smith, the FTSE-100 packaging company which is Europe’s largest cardboard and paper recycler. To that list was this morning added Britvic, the soft drinks company behind much-loved brands such as Robinsons, J2O, Fruit Shoot, Tango, Aqua Libra, Ballygowan mineral water and R White’s lemonade, and which is also the bottler for PepsiCo in Great Britain.It…

Sabrina Carpenter has set a new UK chart record by becoming the youngest female artist to take the top two singles spots in the same week.The US singer reached number one on the Official Charts Company rundown with Please Please Please, pushing Espresso, which had been at the top for five weeks, down to number two. Please Please Please totalled 9.8 million combined streams, while Espresso came in second with 8.1 million streams. Image: Sabrina Carpenter during the BBC Radio1 Big Weekend in May. Pic: PA At the age of 25 years, one month and 10 days, Carpenter overtakes Ariana…

The parcel delivery group once owned by the proprietors of The Daily Telegraph is in talks to seek extra funding just months after it was rescued from the brink of collapse.Sky News has learnt that Yodel Shift Group is in talks with a number of prospective financial backers, including London-listed Paypoint, about an injection of capital into the business. The discussions with Paypoint, which has a partnership with Yodel through its Collect Plus division, are understood to form part of a broader effort to recapitalise the company.Paypoint is understood to be discussing an injection of about £10m, with other investors…

A convicted film set armourer has been denied immunity to testify at actor Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust, a judge has ruled.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March for her role in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died during a rehearsal on the New Mexico set of the western in 2021. Baldwin pointed a prop gun at Hutchins, 42, when the revolver went off, killing her and injuring director Joel Souza.The actor has maintained he pulled back the gun’s hammer, but not the…