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Britain’s biggest online diamond jewellery retailer is exploring the sale of a stake in the business to outside investors for the first time in its 69-year history. Sky News has learnt that The Diamond Store, which is owned by its founding family, is working with advisers on a process to bring in new backers amid…
Professor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand. βCan I ask about the Charlie Kirk situation?β she said in Waiteβs classroom at the University of Texas at Dallas. The student, he said, wondered whether recent events carried…
In βAm I Roxie?,β a world premiere one-woman-show at the Geffen Playhouse, Roxana Ortega, a working actress and alum of the Groundlings Theatreβs Sunday Company, revisits the period in her life when she was the caregiver for her mother, whose memory was unraveling. When Ortegaβs father died of a sudden heart attack outside the post…
Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “lying to the whole country” about what he knew regarding Peter Mandelson’s correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Lord Mandelson was this week stripped of his position as ambassador to the US amid fresh scrutiny over his years-long friendship with the convicted paedophile. The prime minister initially defended the…
Theyβre bad. Theyβre really bad. Theyβre, like, 0-12 bad. The Bad News Bruins are a quarter of their way to completing a winless season, and whoβs to say they wonβt do what no UCLA team has done in more than a century and lose every game they play? New Mexico tight end Simon Mapa (85)…
The owner of Uswitch, one of Britain’s biggest price comparison platforms, and Zoopla, the online property portal, is plotting a break-up that could lead to the sale of some of Britain’s best-known consumer websites in the next 12 months. Sky News has learnt that Silver Lake Partners, the American private equity firm, has hired two…
The crew had just poured a concrete foundation on a vacant lot in Altadena when I pulled up the other day. Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house. I asked how things were going, and if there were any problems…
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Friday elected βThe Lord of the Ringsβ actor Sean Astin to be its national president as one of Hollywoodβs most powerful labor unions faces new challenges in a changing film and TV industry. Astin, known for portraying Frodoβs loyal hobbit friend, Samwise Gamgee, in the…
The number of roadworks in Britain has more than doubled in the past two years – and frustrated drivers are more likely than ever to get stuck behind temporary traffic lights. Exclusive data obtained by Sky News reveals there were 425,524 miles of roadworks across the UK last year. That’s enough to stretch around the…
CIF City and Southern Section high school football scores for Friday’s Week 3 games.
