Newspaper headings: EU 'vaccine blunder', and sport wagering logo design 'restriction'

31 January 2021

By BBC News

Staff

Several documents set out information of what the Sun on Sunday, external calls Boris Johnson's "7 hour face-off" with European Union chiefs.

A senior federal government official tells the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the phone calls to the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen were "pretty spicy".

The Mail on Sunday recommends contingency strategies, external were prepared to airlift vaccination dosages out of the EU following the brief choice to introduce export controls on the Northern Ireland border.

British and EU vaccine industry bodies alert in the Observer, external of the dangers of export bans when firms are working collaboratively.

Online, the Independent worries that the UK has actually offered to assist the bloc, external with its production crisis.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, external, the vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, says the UK would continue to go out of its way to help Brussels.

The Sunday Times states ministers are considering eliminating gambling logo designs from sports betting shirts, external.

The paper states a crackdown on sports betting firm sponsors might hit football clubs, snooker, darts, boxing and rugby league.
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A source from one Premier League club suggests the timing is the worst possible with financial resources struck by the pandemic.

But the Times states MPs and advocates have actually welcomed the possibility because of issues about sports betting addictions.

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The Observer claims Facebook is able to earn money, external indirectly from pages that share incorrect theories about coronavirus and vaccines.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is reported to have found 430 such pages.

Facebook stated a number of these did not breach its false information guidelines but it had actually gotten rid of a small number that did.
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Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a caution by a top counter terrorism officer, external that strategies by the social networks giant to encrypt all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram might stop cops discovering horror plots in Britain.

Ministers have been told that social distancing might have to remain in location all year, according to the Sunday Telegraph, external.

Scientific modelling suggests that even if vaccines could cut infections by 85%, a lockdown would be required up until the end of May to stop a considerable increase in deaths.

The research study concludes that, if the present restrictions were raised next month, then by April there would be another big spike in cases.

Barbara Windsor's hubby, Scott Mitchell, criticises Boris Johnson, external in the Sunday Mirror over a fall in financing for dementia care.
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Alzheimer's Research UK states cash to combat the condition has cut in half in the previous three years.

Mr Mitchell says the government had assured to double funding and he had actually informed his wife, who died last month, that he would do his best for her.
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Finally, the Daily Star Sunday reports on an MI6 plan to recruit part-time spies - or what it calls "On Her Majesty's Sometimes Service"., external

The Star discusses that the intelligence company is trying to attract a larger cross-section of society in its most current recruitment drive.

A source informs the paper it might interest a bored executive of a multinational who wishes to spice up their dull life.
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