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

Several papers set out details of what the Sun on Sunday calls Boris Johnson's "seven hour showdown" with European Union chiefs.

A senior government official tells the Sunday Times 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 were drawn up to airlift vaccination doses out of the EU following the short-lived decision to introduce export controls on the Northern Ireland border.

British and EU vaccine industry bodies warn in the Observer of the dangers of export bans when firms are working collaboratively.

Online, the Independent stresses that the UK has offered to help the bloc with its production crisis.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, the vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, says the UK would continue to go out of its way to assist Brussels.

The Sunday Times says ministers are considering removing gambling logos from sports shirts.

The paper says a crackdown on betting firm 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 hit by the pandemic.

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

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The Observer claims Facebook is able to make money indirectly from pages that share false theories about coronavirus and vaccines.

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

Facebook said many of these did not violate its misinformation rules but it had removed a small number that did.

Meanwhile, the Mail reports on a warning by a top counter terrorism officer that plans by the social media giant to encrypt all messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram could stop police 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 suggests that even if vaccines could cut infections by 85%, a lockdown would be needed until the end of May to stop a significant rise 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 husband, Scott Mitchell, criticises Boris Johnson in the Sunday Mirror over a fall in funding for dementia care.

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

Mr Mitchell says the government had promised to double funding and he had told his wife, who died last month, that he would do his best 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".

The Star explains that the intelligence agency is trying to appeal to a wider cross-section of society in its latest recruitment drive.

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