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GMP donate 2,400 tablets to Tech Fund to support communities facing digital exclusion Date published: 28 May 2021
The generous donation has enabled the fund to support a total of 3,527 people and 132 schools and colleges since it launched
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has donated 2,400 tablets to the Greater Manchester Technology Fund to be repurposed to support young people and families facing digital exclusion across the city-region.
The Greater Manchester Tech Fund was launched at the start of the pandemic by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to support digitally excluded young people with the technology and connectivity needed to continue their learning at home while schools and colleges remained closed.
Coward from Oldham jailed for robbing woman s handbag Date published: 28 May 2021
Adrian Licurici
A man from Oldham, who admitted stealing a woman s handbag in March last year after she had withdrawn money from a cash point, has been jailed.
Adrian Licurici (aged 27), of Ashton Road, has been sentenced to three years in prison after previously pleading guilty at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to one count of robbery.
The conviction relates to an incident on the afternoon of Saturday, March 7, 2020 when Licurici, who was purporting to be injured by walking with a crutch, followed a woman in her 50s before grabbing her bag from behind and running off with it on Zeland Street.