One of the London stock market’s largest exhibition groups is in talks about a big capital injection that would further underline an ongoing frenzy of private equity interest in UK plc. Sky News has learnt that Hyve Group is in preliminary discussions with Carlyle about a so-called private investment in public equity – or PIPE
Month: May 2021
Downing Street has defended a meeting between Viktor Orban and Boris Johnson amid renewed criticism over the Hungarian leader’s derogatory comments about migrants. Mr Orban has previously spoken of “Muslim invaders” and said migration is “a poison”, forcing Number 10 to condemn the comments as “divisive and wrong” ahead of their meeting on Friday afternoon.
Bethel Christian Reformed Church on Penrose Street in Sun Valley. (File photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Here is a sampling of indoor, outdoor and online religious services in the San Fernando Valley area. Temple Beth Hillel services: Havdalah online, 7 p.m. May 29 (click on the Facebook link here: bit.ly/3hT1LyG). Shabbat service,
President Biden has announced his first annual budget – a $6trn (£4.2trn) package that includes investment in fighting climate change and steep tax hikes for the wealthy. The US federal government’s spending plan for the fiscal year ending September 2022 would increase spending on infrastructure, education and provisions for the poor and middle class. However,
UPDATED with latest: On Friday, Disney announced it will livestream the opening ceremonies for the brand new Avengers Campus at Disneyland-adjacent California Adventure. The event should provide fans with their first extensive close-up of the actual attraction, as the Campus is not slated to be open to the public until June 4. Disney refers to
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques on certified PDF documents that could potentially enable an attacker to alter a document’s visible content by displaying malicious content over the certified content without invalidating its signature. “The attack idea exploits the flexibility of PDF certification, which allows signing or adding annotations to certified documents under
“Cosmic Americana” duo Blue Cactus examine the seasons of a relationship in their song “Stranger Again,” and its accompanying music video, premiering exclusively on The Boot. Press play below to watch the brand-new clip. “On your mind / That’s where I want to be all the time,” Blue Cactus’ Mario Arnez and Steph Stewart sing in
One thing that is common right now is that everyone is bored sitting at home. And for entertainment, most people turn towards the photo-sharing platform Instagram. Instagram launched Reels back in 2019 and it rose to popularity because of its 30-second video span. Many people started uploading their videos to it hoping they would become
The Sinister Six are Multiverse villains with “no way home” when they crossover into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Spider-Man: No Way Home, according to a new report. After he’s unmasked by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will battle a team of dimension-hopping supervillains led by the Green
The Mortal Kombat movie that released this year has all sorts of brutal fights and squishy Fatalities to satisfy fans, but those clashes wouldn’t be the same without the right sound effects to compliment the blows and special moves. In a new video featuring the sound team that worked on Mortal Kombat, we got to
Howard University announced Wednesday that it would rename its College of Fine Arts after late actor and Howard alum Chadwick Boseman. Following Boseman’s death in August 2020 after a long battle with colon cancer, students at the Washington, D.C., school started a petition to have the fine arts program named after the Black Panther actor,
OF COURSE HE SAID THAT… If you know anything about Garth Brooks, you knows he’s on of the highest-selling entertainers of all time, he’s a country music superstar, he still routinely sells out football stadiums in a matter of minutes, and he’s married to the great Trisha Yearwood. You also might know that he’s one
Raven’s Home has been a hit for Disney Channel, resulting in four seasons of fun with Raven, Chelsea, and their kids. The recent season 4 finale did leave some questions as it could very much serve as the series finale if it needed to, and fans started thinking it might end up being the finale
Howard University is cementing Chadwick Boseman‘s legacy into its campus — putting his name on a college, and securing some financial backing from a Disney bigwig. HU announced Wednesday that its College of Fine Arts would be named after Chadwick, who graduated from Howard in 2000, and had deep ties to the higher-ed facility and
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer issued a stern warning Thursday to a pair of unidentified suspects sought in the road-rage shooting death of a 6-year-old boy on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway in Orange, as the reward posted in the case swelled to $310,000.
Writing literary fiction that alters the way we think about the world is quite a feat! The stars haven’t been kind to us in the past few years, but they did bless us with incredible literary fiction that forever changed the book industry for the better. In tough times like this, authors who have penned
This Star Wars: The Bad Batch article contains spoilers. The Bad Batch have always been short on friends and allies but never more so than now. The rise of the Empire has cut them off not only from the rest of the Clone Army but the vast resources of the Republic. This band of clone
France has suffered a double-dip recession according to revised official figures that showed it had a worse start to the year than previously thought. Europe’s second biggest economy shrank by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2021, sharply revised from an initial estimate of 0.4% growth, statistical agency INSEE said. It was the second consecutive
The government’s refusal to implement an insurance scheme for mass events this year means the festival industry is looking at a “lost summer”, according to a Commons report. Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has previously ruled out the introduction of such a scheme, claiming it could “pull the rug out from underneath” organisers. Boomtown Festival, which
Shark season has kicked off and it’s already shaping up to be a busy one. On a recent day, a great white shark was seen on camera swimming not far from Doheny State Beach in Dana Point and a few weeks earlier a shark was spotted leaping out of the water off T-Street in San
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