Newspaper headlines: 'Ambulance unlikely if you fall' and 'Mone alone'
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Many front pages react to the vote in favour of strike action later this month by ambulance workers and paramedics.
"Ambulance Unlikely if you fall - Elderly told", external is the warning from the Daily Telegraph.
It says that because such tumbles are usually classed as Category 3 for a response, they're unlikely to merit a call-out during the industrial action.
The Times reports that the details of what unions have described as 'life and limb' cover are still being worked out, external - but that bosses are demanding a pledge to protect heart and stroke patients.
"Ambulance strike 'to put lives at risk'", external is the headline for the Daily Express.
Columnist Leo McKinstry suggests it's time for Rishi Sunak to channel the spirit of Margaret Thatcher, external - and 'get tough' with the unions.
"Mone Alone" is the headline for Metro. It suggests that the Conservative peer Michelle Mone is 'isolated' and 'abandoned by her party', external as she fights claims she cashed in on government contracts for PPE provided by the company Medpro during the pandemic.
The Guardian splash features a new claim that Lady Mone lobbied on behalf of a second company that had secret links to the office that manages her husband's wealth, external.
The paper says she pushed for LFI Diagnostics to provide lateral flow tests during the pandemic and was reminded of the need for propriety at the time by a fellow peer.
Lady Mone has said she's taking a leave of absence from the Lords to clear her name over the Medpro allegations.
Several papers carry pictures of the UK's ninth victim of strep A - five-year-old Stella-Lily McCorkindale from Belfast.
In the Daily Mirror, under the headline "Strep A took my Princess away", external, her grieving father Robert McCorkindale describes how he took his daughter to A&E three times before she was admitted to intensive care where she died on Monday.
The front page of the 'i' warns that as health chiefs consider deploying antibiotics in schools to fight outbreaks of the infection, the government may need to source extra supplies of amoxicillin, external.
Health officials have said there are no current supply issues.
"Palace must reject Sussex lies' says former aide", external, is the front page headline of the Times.
The paper says that ahead of the start of the Netflix series, Harry & Meghan, an ex-employee bound by a confidentiality agreement has called to be allowed to speak out about the couple's time in the royal household and give their version of events.
The series is expected to make serious allegations - including that the Palace leaked and planted stories.
The Daily Mail asks "Who's the real force for race harmony", pointing out that while Harry and Meghan flew to New York in a private jet to pick up an award for their stand against racism, external, the King quietly led by example with a trip to a Sikh temple in Luton.
And under the heading "not a tall story after all" the Sun is one of a number of papers to pick up on research which suggests that 'Short Man Syndrome' is a genuine phenomenon, external - not a myth.
Scientists quizzed an admittedly small - no pun intended - group of 367 US adults and found that shorter respondents who wished they were taller often displayed antagonistic behaviours to compensate for not being physically formidable.
A handy list of 'Famous Shorties' tells us that both Rishi Sunak and Vladimir Putin are both just 5ft7in.
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