£10m Mail Force for good: Readers and donors send Computers for Kids drive to soaring heights 

Mail Force has shattered the £10million barrier with a stunning pledge of 6,500 laptops. The mammoth total has been reached only 16 days after the launch of the Computers for Kids crusade to help locked-down pupils study from home. The huge haul of laptops comes from the Crown Prosecution Service. Previously used in court by … Read more

Slow start for government’s £2bn green homes drive

Slow start for government’s £2bn green homes drive: Just 20,000 grants have been given to households to make homes more energy efficient against target of 600,000 since scheme started in September Rishi Sunak’s £2bn grant scheme is part of £3bn green employment package It is focused on cutting emissions, improving the environment and creating jobs  … Read more

Slow start for government’s £2bn green homes drive

Slow start for government’s £2bn green homes drive: Just 20,000 grants have been given to households to make homes more energy efficient against target of 600,000 since scheme started in September Rishi Sunak’s £2bn grant scheme is part of £3bn green employment package It is focused on cutting emissions, improving the environment and creating jobs  … Read more

China’s drive for military supremacy: Beijing’s armoury of weapons

HYPERSONICS China is spending huge sums to create hypersonic missiles that will go so fast (up to twenty times the speed of sound) that military chiefs believe they will be invulnerable to any form of defence. Indeed, some analysts fear that human capability to respond to such lethal weapons will be inadequate and that the … Read more

Boris Johnson ponders tax that would drive up price of meat and cheese 

Shoppers could be punished with higher prices on meat and cheese at the supermarket and on gas for their hobs and boilers at home as Boris Johnson ponders new carbon taxes and charges for Britain, it emerged today. The Prime Minister has ordered Whitehall departments to look at how much greenhouse gas emissions produced by … Read more

PC World bosses donate 1,000 laptops to Mail Force drive… as sporting stars get behind campaign

Mail Force’s drive to get schoolchildren online shifted up a gear yesterday with a sensational donation from Dixons Carphone. The retailer offered 1,000 ‘top spec’ laptops worth £380,000. Dixons Carphone said it was delighted to pledge the nearly new devices to help youngsters struggling to follow online classes during lockdown. All the machines, from well-known … Read more

Charitable trust boosts Mail Force’s laptops-for-children drive with £500k pledge 

A wonderful £500,000 was pledged yesterday by a charitable trust that said: ‘We cannot stand by and let a generation slip through the net.’ The registered charity, set up to serve the needs of society, preferred to remain anonymous. But its generous donation will start work straight away helping the Daily Mail’s crusade to get … Read more

Israel’s ‘doses for data’ vaccination drive sparks privacy concerns

Israel’s world-leading vaccination drive has come under fire over a ‘data-for-doses’ deal struck with Pfizer in which the country pledged to share medical information with the pharma giant. The Israeli health ministry has agreed to hand over data about vaccinations among different population groups to help assess how quickly herd immunity is achieved.   In return, … Read more

How the EU bungled its vaccine drive

Europe’s vaccine drive has been thrown off course by a shortage of supplies that has left member states reeling and leaders in Brussels thrashing out at big pharma. Constant comparisons between Britain’s well-oiled rollout and the bloc’s own sluggish delivery has stoked frustrations on the Continent, which reached a crescendo last night when the Commission … Read more

Serena Williams’ toddler daughter and husband Alexis Ohanian at the Day at the Drive tennis event

Serena Williams’ toddler daughter looks adorably impatient as she waits for her mother with her father Alexis Ohanian at the Day at the Drive tennis event in Adelaide By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:27 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 08:27 GMT, 29 January 2021 Serena Williams was giving it her all … Read more