Dean Finch, Group chief executive of York-based housebuilder Persimmon which has recorded a strong start to 2021. Picture: A Persimmon home at Germany Beck in York. THE UK s mini-housing boom has helped push property sales for York-based Persimmon for the first quarter of 2021. The housebuilder has reported a strong start to the year with sales up by more than 20 per cent on the previous year. The FTSE100 company said house sales so far in 2021 are running 11 per cent higher than the year before the coronavirus pandemic. Forward sales for the period from January 1 until now are worth £3bn, up 23 per cent from £2.4bn year-on-year, and 11 per cent ahead of the same point in 2019.
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Among those to already benefit is Ramonjit Parmar, 11, who has had minimal access to the family computer at home because her sister has priority as an A-level student
Mail Force has received another stunning boost of more than £200,000 as the nationwide initiative to deliver laptops to schoolchildren hits top gear.
Experian, the consumer credit reporting company, and charity donation website The Big Give have raised the money together.
It lifts the running total of donations in cash and computer pledges from generous Daily Mail readers, philanthropists and corporations to an astonishing £12.1million.
Experian matched every £1 donated – up to a generous £100,100 – to the Computers for Kids campaign on The Big Give.
Pupils were delighted to get their hands on new Mail Force laptops after months of sharing tiny mobile phone screens with their siblings.
Children who struggled with online learning because of limited resources at home are returning to school today – but they need to catch up on the months of schooling lost during the pandemic.
So youngsters were jumping for joy when the Mail Force van made a delivery to the Langley Academy Primary and Langley Academy Secondary schools in Slough, Berkshire.
After being handed ten Microsoft Surface Go 2 devices, Tracey Bowen, head teacher of the primary school, said the donations would help to narrow the academic gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.