Newspaper Headlines: EU ‘vaccine Blunder’, and Sport Betting Logo ‘Restriction’.
Newspaper headings: EU ‘vaccine oversight’, and sport sports betting logo ‘ban’
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 government authorities informs the Sunday Times, external and the Sun that the telephone call to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were “quite hot”.
The Mail on Sunday suggests contingency strategies, external were drawn up to airlift vaccination doses out of the EU following the short-lived choice to present export controls on the Northern Ireland border.
British and EU 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 actually used 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 help Brussels.
The Sunday Times states ministers are considering removing sports betting logos from sports betting t-shirts, external.
The paper states a crackdown on sports betting company 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 financial resources struck by the pandemic.
But the Times says MPs and advocates have actually welcomed the possibility because of concerns about gambling dependencies.
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The Observer claims 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 breach its misinformation rules 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 secure all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram could stop police discovering fear plots in Britain.
Ministers have actually 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 needed till the end of May to stop a substantial increase in deaths.
The research study concludes that, if the present 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 states money to combat the condition has actually cut in half in the previous three years.
Mr Mitchell states the federal government had assured to double financing and he had told his other 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 discusses that the intelligence agency is trying to appeal to a larger cross-section of society in its newest recruitment drive.
A source informs the paper it might interest a bored executive of a multinational who wants to spice up their dull life.
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