Child using a laptop Credit: PA Wire/PA Images
An investigation has been launched into reports that some of the laptops handed out to vulnerable children for homeschooling are infected with malware.
According to an online forum, teachers from a school in Bradford, Yorkshire noticed the issue and believe it contacts Russian servers.
“Upon unboxing and preparing them it was discovered that a number of the laptops are infected with a self-propagating network worm (Gamarue.I),” the forum message says.
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council confirmed to the PA news agency that it alerted schools via email as soon as it became aware of the problem.
Skipton High Street AN application has been made to provide live entertainment and film screenings at a venue in Skipton. Unity Bars and Clubs Limited has applied to Craven District Council for a premises licence for premises to be known as Time Out Sports and Social on the ground floor of Regal Buildings, Keighley Road, Skipton. The proposal is for regulated entertainment, to include exhibition of a film, on Sunday, Monday and Friday 11 to 03:30 the following morning, Tuesday to Thursday 11am to 3am the following morning and Saturday 11am to 4pm the following morning; live music and recorded music (indoors), performance of dance and anything of a similar description to live music, recorded music and dance Sunday to Thursday 11am to 3am the following morning, Friday 11am to 3am the following morning and Saturday 11am to 5am the following morning.
Families in need are getting extra government support in time for Christmas
The £170 million Covid Winter Grant Scheme announced last month is already in action, as vulnerable families across England get help through councils.
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18 December 2020
“No child should have to worry about food or warmth this winter” says Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey
Eating and heating are priorities for the scheme, backed by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Supermarket vouchers, winter clothing and funding for utility bills are among the support now being offered to vulnerable families through the government’s Covid Winter Grant Scheme (CWGS) announced last month.