Newspaper headlines: UK ‘hostage’ to strikes and ‘World Cup le crunch’

Strikes will see up to 15,000 operations – such as hip replacements, cataract surgery and heart repairs – cancelled next week due to the first national strike by nurses, the Daily Telegraph suggests. Up to 100,000 nurses are expected to take part in strikes across 76 hospitals and NHS organisations putting “unprecedented pressures on emergency services”, it says.