Newspaper headlines: UK defends Oxford jab and vigil policing fallouton March 16, 2021 at 5:48 am

Decisions by EU countries to pause the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine leads the papers.

The Daily Mirror calls it a “good hair Dai” for the lucky few who managed to get appointments, while the Guardian paints the scene in one busy salon in Caerphilly, where colour and cuts were taking longer than usual because the owner “kept having to dart to the reception desk to field calls”.