Newspaper headlines: EU 'vaccine oversight', and sport sports betting logo design 'restriction'

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

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

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 go out of its way to assist Brussels.

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

The paper says a crackdown on wagering company sponsors could 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 actually invited the possibility because 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.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is reported to have found 430 such pages.
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Facebook said a lot of these did not violate its false information guidelines however it had gotten rid of a small number that did.
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Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a warning by a leading counter terrorism officer, external that plans by the social media giant to encrypt all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram might stop authorities revealing horror plots in Britain.

Ministers have been told that social distancing might have to remain in place all year, according to the Sunday Telegraph, external.

Scientific modelling recommends that even if vaccines might cut infections by 85%, a lockdown would be needed up until the end of May to stop a considerable rise in deaths.

The research study concludes that, if the existing 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 funding for dementia care.

Alzheimer's Research UK says cash to eliminate the condition has halved in the previous 3 years.
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Mr Mitchell says the government had promised to double financing and he had told his partner, who passed away last month, that he would do his best for her.

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

The Star explains that the intelligence firm is attempting to interest a larger cross-section of society in its newest recruitment drive.

A source informs the paper it might attract a bored executive of an international who desires to spice up their dull life.

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