The Papers: 'Devastating tragedy' and 'Doctor in your pocket'

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BBC 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.

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".

"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.

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