'Devastating tragedy' and 'Doctor in your pocket'
Most of Friday's front pages feature the death in a car crash in Spain of Liverpool forward Diogo Jota and his brother. "Devastating tragedy" is the headline in Metro. It includes an image of the footballer with his three children and wife.
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The Star leads with a headline quote describing Jota as a "fantastic player, great friend and a loving husband and father".
For The Sun, "Football has lost a champion". The "just-wed star" was in a "horror crash", it says.
The Daily Express leads with a football fan saying, "Our hearts are broken".
The Mirror uses one word to describe the news: "Devastating". It also features a story on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's 10-year plan to "revitalise the NHS".
According to the Daily Mail, the government plans a new NHS app dubbed the "doctor in your pocket". The paper questions whether ministers will "really be able to deliver the all-singing, all-dancing" app by 2028.
The Times likewise has the planned NHS app as its main story, with another on Chancellor Rachel Reeves' response to her tears in the Commons. The chancellor says she is "cracking on" as she "paves the way for tax rises" to pay for the gap left by the watered-down welfare bill, the paper reports.
The i Paper leads on a report that Labour will look to taxing pensions as it seeks to pay for the "welfare U-turn". Also on its front, along with tributes to Diogo Jota, is a report that weight loss jabs may be made available in supermarkets as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting seeks to take pressure off the NHS.
The FT leads on how markets reacted to Reeves tearing up and the way this suggested she might leave her job. It reports that "big asset managers piled into gilts" following the dip in markets. It is a sign of Britain's "precarious financial position", the paper reports.
The Guardian's top story is Israel stepping up its strikes on Gaza, with hundreds of people reportedky killed this week, as it launches "one of the the deadliest and most intense bombardments in the devastated territory for many months".
The Daily Telegraph leads with what it reports is former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's "hard-Left challenge" to Sir Keir with the launch of a new party. Corbyn has been contacted but has not confirmed his involvement in a new party to the BBC. The front page also shows a photograph of Diogo Jota on his wedding day on 22 June.
"Devastating" is how the Daily Mirror describes the death of the Liverpool footballer, Diogo Jota, external, at the age of 28 in a car crash. The Sun, external's headline is "football has lost a champion". The Daily Express, external says "stunned" Liverpool fans "flocked" to Anfield to pay tribute. The manager that signed him for the club, Jurgen Klopp, is quoted on the front of the Daily Star, external describing Jota as a "fantastic player, great friend and a loving husband and father". The Daily Mail , externalcalls him a modest, clever footballer who played with joy and elan.
The Daily Telegraph, external leads on the announcement by Zarah Sultana that she has quit Labour to co-lead a new party alongside Jeremy Corbyn. In a "hard-Left challenge" for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Sultana has pledged to fight against his benefit cuts and "genocide" in Gaza.
"The doctor in your pocket will see you now" is the Daily Mail's headline as it leads on plans for people to be able to book, move and cancel appointments through the NHS app. According to the Times, external, everyone is being promised a unified health record. The Guardian, external says the "dramatic expansion" in app technology will lead to fewer staff than had been expected by 2035.
The Sun says there was an "awkward show of unity" at the event announcing the NHS plans, as the chancellor appeared alongside the prime minister. A day after she broke down in the Commons, the Financial Times , externalsays Rachel Reeves "appeared much more buoyant". But the Times suggests her appearance as a "special guest" only "fuels suspicions that everything isn't fine".
On what is Labour's first anniversary in office, the FT's editorial column says a disastrous few days have done great damage to the government and its political project. The Daily Mail reckons the UK is feeling an overwhelming sense of buyer's remorse - people feel they have been had. The i Paper, external says Labour has made some progress - on economic stability and infrastructure - but big challenges lie ahead.
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