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Navy man on mission to help out  A former Royal Navy engineer is using his skills to help children struggling without laptops while their schools are shut. Phil Macrae, 33, now runs a computer repair workshop and is devoting his spare time to refurbishing old devices donated after he appealed on Facebook. In just five weeks he has spent more than 350 hours rebuilding 250 second-hand computers which have been given to more than 30 schools in the West Midlands. He travelled all over the world i...

Education firm Pearson has backed Mail Force with a fantastic double donation. The company is offering 250 laptops and £50,000 cash on top. Both donations will go straight into the campaign to get lockdown schoolchildren online. Pearson, which publishes everything from pupils’ textbooks to educational resources for teachers and companies, pledged to add more laptops at a later date. The firm employs more than 22,000 in 70 countries and is the latest corporation to back the Daily Mail’s Com...

To the delight of one secondary school’s pupils – especially some excitable triplets – the Mail Force van has made its latest delivery of laptops. Mail Force has now raised a whopping £10.6millon for the Computers for Kids campaign in just three weeks, to help lockdown pupils struggling to follow online classes. The charity has had a sensational boost with a video appeal fronted by David Beckham and 29 other famous British faces going viral – reaching some 123million social media users...

Now pupils of Manchesters Moston Fields Primary School have another reason to smile. For they find themselves starring in a video alongside David Beckham, David Walliams, Helena Bonham-Carter, Stephen Fry and umpteen other celebrity supporters of the great Mail Force drive to get all Britains children learning through lockdown. Packed with many of our favourite stars of film, television, sport and the arts, the new film is raising both funds and awareness for the charitys Computers for Kids cam...

David Beckham, David Walliams, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Joan Collins are among the 30 big names backing the Mail Force charity. They star in a unique fundraising video for the charity.

There’s an old saying in politics: never let a good crisis go to waste. That is certainly the approach adopted by the National Education Union (NEU), Britain’s biggest representative body for teachers. With breath-taking cynicism and self-serving ruthlessness, the union is using the Covid-19 pandemic to hammer the Government over cheap political points — at terrible cost to the nation’s children. Its mission not only ignores entirely the educational needs of pupils, it also casts aside ...

Share The donation came about after an IT worker at the CPS saw the Mails campaign. We are accepting used laptops and – for around £15 – having them professionally refurbished for young learners. All the latest 6,500 devices are lightweight and powerful ThinkPads made by Lenovo. The CPS said it would delete all the data on them, including sensitive notes kept by prosecutors of criminal records and case evidence used in trials and plea hearings. Their value is estimated to be at least £3mi...

Konnie Huq: Lets help families who dont have devices to home school Konnie Huq For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Brace yourselves!, Eeeek, Help!, Oh no... not again! read the messages on school WhatsApp feeds across the country when the news broke. It was December 19, a Saturday – the first Saturday of the school Christmas holidays to be precise – and as parents tucked their kids into bed that evening, excited for the Christmas break ahead, a las...

Six Prime Ministers in laptops plea: In their own moving and personal words, how EVERY living premier, past and present, backs Mail Force campaign to help lockdown children In an unprecedented show of support, Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May have joined Boris Johnson to back campaign Development came as total raised has now reached an incredible £6.9million Sir John Major has described campaign as a beacon of light in darkest of times 

Anonymous donor pledged a massive £500,000 to the Mail Force campaign   The charity, set up to serve societys needs, preferred to remain anonymous  Generous Daily Mail readers have given over £1.2million in just one week  Many of the donations were accompanied with humbling messages of support  Grandparents and retired teachers were among those to help raise £1,245,460