The Mail Force laptop campaign has smashed through the £1million barrier in just four days.
The phenomenal milestone has been reached thanks to reader generosity – and a stunning donation from Lloyds. The banking giant has offered 1,000 top-of-the-range laptops worth £500,000.
It is a sensational moment for the Computers for Kids drive to get urgently-needed devices to lockdown pupils. Our readers have now given the charity a staggering £445,000 – since only Saturday – helping children struggling to access online lessons.
Lloyds threw half a million pounds into the pot by donating 1,000 Surface Go 2 devices. Part laptop, part tablet, the cutting-edge machines have detachable screens.
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A study backed by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown reckons that within months at least one in 10 workers (about four million people) will be without work. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
A study backed by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown reckons that within months at least one in 10 workers (about four million people) will be without work. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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Infusion therapy keeps virus patients home
Passavant among hospitals using treatment for those with mild to moderate symptoms
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Art Yarnik relaxes in his Staunton home. He was one of 365 people who have already received an infusion therapy for patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms. Memorial Health System offers the procedure to help keep people from facing hospitalization.Kara Slating | Memorial Health System
Tim Yarnik, his wife and daughter were on their way to an outing in St. Louis and planned to visit his dad, who lives in Staunton, on the way there.
His dad, Art, who’s 87 years old and lives alone, wasn’t acting himself, and his forehead felt warm. They urged him to be tested for COVID-19. Two days later, he tested positive for the virus. His fever was 103 degrees. “We were frightened for him,” Yarnik said.
Former Larsen’s building in Waterville gets ‘top-to-bottom’ renovation and will house nutrition store
Businessman Bill Mitchell is renovating 57 Main St. in downtown Waterville, where Elm City Nutrition is slated to open on the first floor this spring and the upper two floors are large, high-end apartments.
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Bill Mitchell stands Friday in the entryway to his newly renovated property at the corner of Common and Main streets in downtown Waterville.
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WATERVILLE Businessman Bill Mitchell is again investing in downtown as part of revitalization efforts, this time renovating a historic building at the corner of Main and Common streets that formerly was home to Larsen’s Jewelry.
A technology war is being waged between people making bots to snatch highly desirable items like the PS5 and specialists trying to prevent them, but a change in law is not the answer, an expert has said.
Gamers have been battling to get their hands on the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles amid limited stock supplies since both were released in November last year.
Consumers recently expressed frustration after a Twitter account promoting a service called Carnage Bot claimed to help bot users secure 2,000 pre-orders of the PS5 via Game.co.uk, saying it “just keeps getting easier every time”.