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More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
Companies begin drafting ‘no jab, no job’ contracts to force staff to get Covid vaccinations despite lawyers warning they are ‘risky’ and likely to be challenged in court ‘No jab no job’ contracts are being drafted by companies in the care home sector The move may mean prospective and current workers need to have jab … Read more
The Border Force chief who was last night accused of causing huge delays at Heathrow Airport by splitting the workforce into ‘rigid and inflexible’ bubbles has landed a senior role with NHS Test and Trace. It is understood that Chief Operating Officer Emma Moore instructed Border Force agents to work in 12-person bubbles at the West … Read more
A million children have no laptops for lessons: Former Navy engineer refurbishes old computers for schools as part of Mail Force drive to help needy pupils during lockdown… as research shows 14m devices are lying unused in our home 14million spare computers are sitting in cupboards and drawers in lockdown The Daily Mail is campaigning … Read more
A quarter of all known stars in the universe are thought to host a ‘perfect planet’ — one the same size and temperature as Earth. There are approximately a ‘zetta’ of them … that’s a trillion billions — a one with 21 zeroes after it. So it is presumptuous for us to assume we are … Read more
Nearly half of all Border Force staff stationed at Heathrow were off sick last week as a trade union accused the Home Office of causing mayhem by imposing ‘rigid and inflexible’ work bubbles, MailOnline can reveal. Thousands of passengers who tried to beat the Government’s hotel quarantine regime which has come into force today experienced … Read more
British workers on South American oil rigs lobbying Government for exemption from new hotel quarantine By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 British workers on South American oil rigs are lobbying the Government for an exemption from the new hotel quarantine rules … Read more
Border officials have have warned that they are powerless to stop people dodging quarantine, and have criticised the government’s ‘shambolic’ border policy. Britain risks becoming a ‘super-spreader’ because of how relaxed the rules are, they said, adding that they are unable to stop people from ‘legging it’ from airport terminals to avoid having to quarantine … Read more
To the delight of one secondary school’s pupils – especially some excitable triplets – the Mail Force van has made its latest delivery of laptops. Mail Force has now raised a whopping £10.6millon for the Computers for Kids campaign in just three weeks, to help lockdown pupils struggling to follow online classes. The charity has … Read more