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Amazon Surprises Schoolchildren with “Very Important Breakfast (VIB) Clubs” – Star-Studded Lessons in Freestyle Football, Biology, Jiving, Maths and Rap

Amazon and charity partner, Magic Breakfast, line up Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell, Professor Green, Dr. Ranj, Lia Lewis, and Rachel Riley to teach “VIB Clubs” at schools across the country this Christmas

Amazon extends partnership with Magic Breakfast to provide healthy breakfasts for children across the UK, including during school holidays; since the start of the pandemic Amazon has delivered more than two million meals

Magic Breakfast is among the thousands of charities around the world receiving millions of items through product and monetary donations from Amazon this festive season

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Toggle Summary ‘Mamma Mia!’Here we go again...Amazon.co.uk's biggest-ever Christmas product is also the best-selling item of 2008
December 30, 2008, London: Amazon.co.uk today revealed that ‘Mamma Mia!’ was the biggest-selling product of 2008. The Abba musical took the top spot ahead of ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ by J.K.Rowling and Batman blockbuster ‘The Dark Knight’. Top Ten Best-Sellers on Amazon.co.uk in 2008 1.
Toggle Summary ‘Mamma Mia!’ is Amazon.co.uk’s biggest-ever Christmas product with almost four times as many sales as last year's bestseller
December 26, 2008, London: ‘Mamma Mia!’ is Amazon.co.uk’s biggest-selling Christmas product ever having sold almost four times as many copies as last year’s Christmas bestseller ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ In any other year, sales of ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ by J.K.Rowling and ‘The Dark Knight’
Toggle Summary ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ Launches in the UK to Help Children and Young Adults from Low-Income Backgrounds Build Careers in Computer Science
New research shows the UK needs 21,000 more computer science graduates every year, or the economy faces losing up to £ 33bn a year by 2030   Programme includes support for over 200 careers specialists and 50 computer science teachers, free robotics workshops for 10,000 primary school children and a
Toggle Summary Xbox Fans Plan Mass "Sickie" This Friday
Amazon.co.uk reveals the secret plans of UK gamers 13 March, 2002, London : on Thursday14th March, the day the most eagerly awaited games console ever goes on sale, three quarters (74%) of people who buy an Xbox are planning to pull a "sickie" to spend time at home playing the world's most
Toggle Summary X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows now available on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick - answer the classic movie-watching question "Who’s that guy?" on your TV for the first time ever
X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows is available exclusively on Prime Instant Video and Amazon Instant Video and is powered by IMDb — the number one movie website in the world, with a database of more than 180 million data items, plus over 200 million unique monthly visitors worldwide Get instant access

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