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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
The operation began before dawn – another precious consignment of Mail Force laptops that will transform the lives of yet more schoolchildren. The computers were ready just before 6am yesterday and were on their way up the motorway from the depot in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, within the hour. They were destined for a school in Manchester … Read more
Labour demands ‘task force’ to tackle dangerous cladding as 11MILLION face fire risk, higher costs and plunging property prices Sir Keir Starmer is demanding ministers set up a task force to fix cladding crisis Labour will try to force a vote in the House of Commons this afternoon on issue Labour estimates as many as … Read more
In a boost for British children, one of the country’s most successful online retailers pledged a whopping £500,000 to Mail Force yesterday. The Hut Group’s donation sends our campaign to help pupils in lockdown get online soaring to £5.6million in just a week. Laptops are already being handed out to schoolchildren who desperately need them to … Read more
Protesters say eviction teams are trying to force them out of an underground environmentalist demonstration. Members of HS2 Rebellion constructed tunnels under Euston Square Gardens in central London, claiming the small green space near the station will be built over with a temporary taxi rank before being sold to developers. The group now says eviction … Read more
Mail Force hit the jackpot yesterday with a thumping £1million donation from Camelot. The National Lottery operator’s awesome offer to match reader donations sent the campaign to get laptops to lockdown pupils soaring. In less than a week, £5million has been raised and thousands of computers pledged – and this is just the beginning. Cheques, online … Read more
A sensational £1.25million in a single day was raised for Mail Force to help lockdown pupils yesterday. Online fashion retailer Boohoo pledged a whopping £750,000 towards the ambitious campaign to get schoolchildren online. And a further £500,000 arrived from a generous benefactor who requested to remain anonymous. On top of that, donations from Mail readers … Read more
The United States military said Wednesday it flew a B-52 bomber over the Middle East ‘to deter potential aggression’ amid tensions with Iran – the first such flight under President Joe Biden, and sixth by the US since November. The show of strength comes just days after Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, rejected demands to … Read more
Ministers should SCRAP the school year and force pupils to start it again in September says leading head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh believes pupils should redo the entire year in classrooms She warned teachers were managing to cover as little as 20 per cent of content Gavin Williamson yesterday hailed remote classrooms as a ‘major achievement’ … Read more
FKA twigs recently bared her soul as she detailed the alleged domestic abuse she faced from ex Shia LaBeouf. And the Grammy nominee has channeled her pain into art, putting together an entire album during the COVID-19 pandemic. She attempts to break free from an invisible force in her new music video for Don’t Judge … Read more