1 Newspaper Headlines: EU 'vaccine Blunder', and Sport Betting Logo 'Ban'.
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Newspaper headings: EU 'vaccine oversight', and sport sports betting logo design 'restriction'
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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 official informs the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the call to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were "pretty spicy".

The Mail on Sunday suggests contingency plans, external were prepared to airlift vaccination dosages out of the EU following the short-term decision to introduce export controls on the Northern Ireland border.

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

Online, the Independent worries that the UK has offered 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 help Brussels.

The Sunday Times states ministers are considering removing sports betting logo designs from sports betting t-shirts, external.

The paper says a crackdown on wagering company sponsors might hit football clubs, snooker, darts, boxing and rugby league.

A source from one Premier League the timing is the worst possible with finances hit by the pandemic.

But the Times says MPs and advocates have actually invited the possibility since of concerns about sports betting addictions.

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The Observer declares Facebook is able to earn money, external indirectly from pages that share false theories about coronavirus and vaccines.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is reported to have discovered 430 such pages.
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Facebook said a number of these did not breach its misinformation rules but it had gotten rid of a small number that did.
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Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a warning by a top counter terrorism officer, external that strategies by the social media giant to encrypt all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram could stop authorities discovering terror plots in Britain.

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

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

The research study concludes that, if the present constraints were lifted 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 states money to combat the condition has cut in half in the past 3 years.

Mr Mitchell states the government had promised to double funding and he had told his wife, who died last month, that he would do his best for her.

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 agency is attempting to attract a broader cross-section of society in its most current recruitment drive.

A source tells the paper it may attract a bored executive of an international who desires to enliven their dull life.

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