The Papers: School closure 'chaos' and 'misery for the NHS'

Friday's Guardian leads with a communicative that features successful galore of today's papers - the last-minute closure of schoolhouse buildings that are made with aerated concrete. "Thousands of pupils successful England whitethorn statesman the autumn word taking lessons remotely oregon successful impermanent buildings," the insubstantial reports. Elsewhere determination is an representation of Grant Shapps, who has been made defence caput - his 5th furniture presumption successful a year

Parents with children successful affected schools are "scrambling for childcare", the one says. More than 100 schools crossed England person been told their buildings are astatine hazard of collapse, it adds, with erstwhile Home Secretary Priti Patel telling the insubstantial "this is simply a large mess" and criticising the authorities for failing to enactment sooner. A smiling Mr Shapps besides features connected the beforehand page

The Daily Telegraph compares the concern to the Covid lockdown, erstwhile pupils were past taught remotely. It says unions person warned this is the "tip of the iceberg" and that "hundreds" much schools built with reinforced autoclaved aerated factual (RAAC) could beryllium closed. It adds the Department for Education is "facing questions astir wherefore it waited until the eve of the caller schoolhouse year" to marque the call. Cartoonist Matt Pritchett makes airy of the concern with a drafting of a parent fretting astir her children going backmost to schoolhouse - increasing retired of their hard hats "so quickly"

The "last-minute bid to close" schoolhouse buildings has travel contempt a assertion by the Times that "first warnings" astir RAAC successful roofs cracking "came arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1995" - raising questions astir the government's handling of the issue. The insubstantial besides has a slot for the coordinated onslaught of inferior doctors and consultants successful England, owed successful October, which it says wellness work leaders person warned is "a measurement excessively far"

"How callous tin get get?" the Daily Mail asks striking doctors successful its headline, pointing to "record NHS waiting lists" arsenic a large concern. The days-long walkout is the effect of an ongoing wage enactment with the authorities - and marks the archetypal clip some groups person walked retired unneurotic successful this dispute. "Staff volition enactment connected a Christmas Day basis," the insubstantial explains, meaning exigency attraction volition proceed to beryllium given

The Daily Express describes the onslaught arsenic "more NHS misery", beside an representation of consultants holding placards with messages astir their pay. On schools, the insubstantial asks wherefore it has taken "five years to unopen unsafe" buildings, claiming it has been that agelong since the "danger" of RAAC was enactment to the applicable officials

A striking representation of the occurrence successful Johannesburg, South Africa, that killed much than 70 radical sits atop the Financial Times. The concern paper's main communicative is astir India's Adani Group, which it says mislaid $4.2bn (£3.3bn) successful shares pursuing revelations astir "family-linked shareholders successful the company's stock"

Continuing with its run to prevention England's railway summons offices from being closed, the Daily Mirror focuses connected protesters who "descended connected Downing Street" connected Thursday to request the authorities "stop the cull". Alongside an representation of immoderate of those who marched is simply a header claiming the authorities knows the determination "will punish the elderly, wounded disabled radical and frighten women" who are travelling alone

The Metro's main communicative is astir Sam Newey, a 22-year-old British combatant who died successful Ukraine trying "to propulsion backmost against Russian imperialism". Hailed arsenic a leader by his brother, the insubstantial says Newey had fought "repeatedly connected the beforehand enactment since joining an planetary unit, known arsenic the Dark Angles", aft Russian person Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine past year

Responding to its ain beforehand leafage from Thursday, the Sun carries an interrogation with a British warfare seasoned who disagrees with Prince Harry's caller accusation that the media did not bash capable for troops warring successful Afghanistan. Ben McBean, a roadside weaponry unfortunate who the insubstantial says was among the "badly-injured troops Harry saw erstwhile ... they were airlifted from the warfare zone", tells the insubstantial helium has had the royal's "back for 15 years - [but] connected this 1 he's wrong"