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Boris Johnson yesterday backed plans for a national Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral, telling the Commons it would be a ‘fitting place of reflection’. The Prime Minister announced the creation of a commission to examine ways for the nation to remember the victims of the ‘gravest crisis since the Second World War’. And he specifically praised plans backed by the Daily Mail to create a magnificent memorial at the cathedral in central London. Mr Johnson told MPs there was a ‘solem...

The Remember Me campaign shifted up a gear yesterday thanks to a stunning £100,000 gift from businessman Mohamed Mansour – taking the cash raised by the Mails drive past £1million. Making his pledge, the Egyptian tycoon said he felt privileged and compelled to support the multi-faith memorial to Covid victims at St Pauls Cathedral after seeing the grief caused by the pandemic. Mr Mansour, who runs his empire from London, said the lasting tribute in the heart of the capital would become a na...

They have arrived in their sackloads – thousands of heartfelt letters each containing cheques from Daily Mail readers sparing as much as they can to help create a national memorial to Covid victims. With donations ranging from £2 to £2,000, more than 2,200 touching messages – including one from a 100-year-old who survived the virus – have flooded in. While hundreds are still to be processed, the letters have so far raised more than £78,000 towards the Remember Me campaign for a lasting...

The Remember Me campaign for a national memorial for Covid victims received another stunning boost yesterday as entrepreneur Matt Moulding announced a £250,000 donation. The pledge from Mr Moulding’s firm The Hut Group (THG) meant the total raised so far has topped £1.3million – more than half the amount needed to build the memorial inside St Paul’s Cathedral. Mr Moulding, 49, said his company felt ‘blessed’ to support the Daily Mail’s Remember Me campaign. Mr Moulding said his fi...

A SCOTTISH entrepreneur who recently won the backing of Touker Suleyman on the TV show Dragons’ Den has revealed plans for potential expansion on the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey. Dom Hogan, owner of Opie’s Emporium, has a store and factory in Hillington Park in Glasgow. However, she’s looking at the potential of opening more stores across the country. “So I’m looking for advice on how best to go about that,” Ms Hogan told the show’s host Donald Martin, edito...

Theo Paphitis, retail entrepreneur and star of TV’s Dragons’ Den, has called for the abolition of business rates to future-proof the UK high street. Speaking on the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey, Mr Paphitis said: “The high street is varied and has lots of moving parts so predicting its future is not just a binary black and white answer. “We can talk about this for absolutely forever but there’s one key thing the government needs to do really sharpish as a catalys...

Readers Letters: Enough woolliness over cost of Independence One thing most will agree on is that Scottish Independence should be decided by the Scottish people. I voted for Independence in 2014, the majority voted for the continuation of the Union, that is democracy. Similarly, on Brexit I voted to Remain but the majority across the Union voted to leave, again, democracy. However, politicians believe in democracy and the outcome of a vote when it suits their own cause, if not, let’s have ano...

Philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter donated an astounding £250,000 to the Daily Mails Remember Me campaign yesterday – taking the total raised soaring above £1million. The retail entrepreneur said he and his family were honoured to support the national memorial to the victims of the Covid pandemic at St Pauls. The Hunter familys generous donation means that more than £610,000 has been raised in just seven days since the Mail launched the campaign last weekend. Combined with the funds already co...

But as many media outlets pointed out, if a person sends money using PayPal, in some instances, the snail-mail address associated with the account will also be sent over. The issue was first pointed out by security researcher Rachel Tobac, who shared in a May 6 tweet that in some instances, the Tip Jar option could reveal a user’s home address — or any that is affiliated with the PayPal account — to the person receiving money. Huge heads up on PayPal Twitter Tip Jar. If you send a person ...

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