Newspaper headings: EU 'vaccine oversight', and sport sports betting logo 'ban'

31 January 2021

By BBC News

Staff

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

A senior federal government authorities tells the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the call to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were "quite spicy".
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The Mail on Sunday suggests contingency plans, external were drawn up to airlift vaccination doses out of the EU following the brief choice to introduce export controls on the Northern Ireland border.

British and EU vaccine market bodies caution in the Observer, external of the dangers of export bans when firms are working collaboratively.
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Online, the Independent stresses that the UK has actually used to help 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 head out of its way to assist Brussels.

The Sunday Times states ministers are thinking about eliminating sports betting logo designs from sports betting t-shirts, external.
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The paper states a crackdown on sports betting firm sponsors might strike football clubs, snooker, darts, boxing and rugby league.
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A source from one Premier League club recommends the timing is the worst possible with financial resources hit by the pandemic.

But the Times says MPs and advocates have welcomed the possibility since of issues about gambling 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.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is reported to have discovered 430 such pages.

Facebook said a number of these did not violate its misinformation rules however it had removed a little number that did.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a caution by a leading counter terrorism officer, that plans by the social networks giant to secure all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram might stop police revealing fear plots in Britain.

Ministers have been told that social distancing might have to stay 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 till completion of May to stop a substantial increase in deaths.

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

Barbara Windsor's other half, 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 says cash to combat the condition has actually cut in half in the previous 3 years.

Mr Mitchell states the federal government had actually assured to double funding and he had actually informed his spouse, 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 describes that the intelligence firm is trying to interest a larger cross-section of society in its newest recruitment drive.
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A source informs the paper it may appeal to a bored executive of an international who desires to enliven their dull life.

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