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

31 January 2021

By BBC News
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Several documents set out details of what the Sun on Sunday, external calls Boris Johnson's "7 hour showdown" 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 President Ursula von der Leyen were "pretty hot".

The Mail on Sunday suggests contingency plans, external were drawn up to airlift vaccination dosages out of the EU following the short-lived choice to present export controls on the Northern Ireland border.

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

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

The paper says a crackdown on sports betting company sponsors could hit football clubs, snooker, darts, boxing and rugby league.

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 actually invited the possibility because of concerns about gambling dependencies.

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The Observer declares 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 discovered 430 such pages.

Facebook stated a lot of these did not break its false information rules but it had actually removed a little number that did.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a warning by a leading counter terrorism officer, external that plans by the social networks giant to secure all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram might stop police revealing horror plots in Britain.
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Ministers have been told that social distancing may need to remain in location all year, according to the Sunday Telegraph, external.

Scientific modelling recommends that even if vaccines could cut infections by 85%, a lockdown would be required up until the end of May to stop a substantial rise in deaths.
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The research study concludes that, if the current constraints were raised next month, then by April there would be another large spike in cases.

Barbara Windsor's husband, Scott Mitchell, criticises Boris Johnson, external in the Sunday Mirror over a fall in financing for .

Alzheimer's Research UK says money to combat the condition has actually halved in the previous three years.

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

The Star discusses that the intelligence firm is trying to interest a broader cross-section of society in its latest recruitment drive.

A source tells the paper it may attract a bored executive of a multinational who wishes to enliven their dull life.

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