Newspaper Headlines: EU 'vaccine Blunder', and Sport Betting Logo 'Ban'.
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Newspaper headlines: EU 'vaccine oversight', and sport sports betting logo 'restriction'
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31 January 2021

By BBC News

Staff

Several papers 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 authorities tells the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the phone calls to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were "pretty spicy".

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

British and EU vaccine market bodies warn in the Observer, external of the threats of export restrictions when firms are working collaboratively.

Online, the Independent stresses that the UK has provided 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 gambling logos from sports betting shirts, external.

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

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

But the Times says MPs and advocates have invited the possibility because of issues about sports betting dependencies.

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The Observer declares Facebook is able to generate income, 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.

Facebook said much of these did not violate its false information guidelines but it had eliminated a little number that did.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a warning by a leading counter terrorism officer, external that plans by the social media giant to secure all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram could stop cops uncovering terror plots in Britain.

Ministers have been told that social distancing may have to stay in place all year, according to the Sunday Telegraph, .

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

The research concludes that, if the current restrictions were lifted next month, then by April there would be another large spike in cases.

Barbara Windsor's other half, Scott Mitchell, criticises Boris Johnson, external in the Sunday Mirror over a fall in funding for dementia care.

Alzheimer's Research UK states money to eliminate the condition has halved in the past three years.

Mr Mitchell states the government had actually promised to double financing and he had told his spouse, who died last month, that he would do his finest for her.

Finally, the Daily Star Sunday reports on an MI6 strategy to hire part-time spies - or what it calls "On Her Majesty's Sometimes Service"., external

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

A source tells the paper it may appeal to a bored executive of a multinational who wishes to spice up their dull life.
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