Newspaper Headlines: EU ‘vaccine Blunder’, and Sport Betting Logo ‘Restriction’.

Newspaper headings: EU ‘vaccine oversight’, and sport wagering logo ‘restriction’

31 January 2021

By BBC News

Staff

Several papers 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 authorities tells the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the call to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were “pretty hot”.

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

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

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, states the UK would continue to go out of its way to assist Brussels.

The Sunday Times states ministers are thinking about getting rid of gambling logo designs from sports betting t-shirts, external.

The paper says a crackdown on wagering firm sponsors could strike football clubs, snooker, darts, boxing and rugby league.

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

But the Times says MPs and campaigners have actually invited the possibility because of concerns about gambling addictions.

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The Observer claims Facebook has the ability to generate income, external indirectly from pages that share incorrect theories about coronavirus and vaccines.

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

Facebook said numerous of these did not violate its misinformation guidelines but it had eliminated a little number that did.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a caution by a leading counter terrorism officer, external that plans by the social networks giant to encrypt all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram might stop cops uncovering 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 recommends that even if vaccines could cut infections by 85%, a lockdown would be required until completion of May to stop a significant increase in deaths.

The research concludes that, if the present limitations 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.

Alzheimer’s Research UK states cash to combat the condition has halved in the previous three years.

Mr Mitchell states the federal government had actually assured to double financing and he had informed his better half, who died last month, that he would do his finest 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 describes that the intelligence firm is attempting to appeal to a wider cross-section of society in its latest recruitment drive.

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

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