The Prime Minister penned an open letter to parents, carers and guardians to say they have responded magnificently to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
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 continued to flood in, including cheques and letters from retired teachers inspired to help the Computers for Kids drive.
It was the most successful fundraising day yet in an already phenomenal week. Some of Britain’s leading companies have thrown their weight behind the campaign, sending either cash or laptop computers.
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Kate Bingham revealed that she was part of Novavax trial that was found to defeat Covid in 9 out of 10 cases
US biotech firm announced its vaccine had successfully completed Phase Three clinical trials in UK
Under a deal with the UK government, 60million doses of the vaccine will be produced on Teesside for UK use
The vaccine still requires final approval from the UK s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
First Minister Mark Drakeford will extend lockdown restrictions in Wales by three weeks and hint pupils may return to schools after the February half-term if cases call.
The phrase ‘Daily Mail reader’ is used as a term of abuse by some on the left of British politics who may not read the paper but nonetheless see those who do as small-minded little Englanders. Editor Geordie Greig, not surprisingly, sees them a little differently.
Greig spoke about his typical reader this week as the paper kicked off its Computers for Kids campaign, which seeks to ensure less privileged children in the UK have access to laptops as the pandemic sees most children forced to learn from home.
In a rare interview, he told Press Gazette: “Daily Mail readers are ordinary people with extraordinary lives. They are people you sit next to on the Tube, on the aeroplane, at the bus stop – it’s the biggest newspaper readership in Britain and they are the bedrock of middle Britain. When they get behind something and feel there’s an injustice, they really support us.