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30 January 2021 • 12:01am Stella Kyriakides, the EU s health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca s vaccine supply: We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order. With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – provided it cuts the unnecessary bureaucracy on our exports? ....
A top private school has been condemned for including Soviet spy Donald Maclean among a list of former pupils that it wants to honour with blue plaques. Gresham s School has applied to put up plaques celebrating a selection of notable alumni on its Old School House building in Holt, Norfolk. Those selected include The Crown actress Olivia Colman, Sir James Dyson, composer Benjamin Britten, poet WH Auden and hovercraft inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell. The school, which costs £36,000-a-year to attend for those boarding, also hopes to honour Donald Maclean, a British diplomat who leaked government secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. ....