The Papers: UK 'hostage' to strikes and 'World Cup le crunch'

Strikes volition spot up to 15,000 operations - specified arsenic hep replacements, cataract country and bosom repairs - cancelled adjacent week owed to the archetypal nationalist onslaught by nurses, the Daily Telegraph suggests. Up to 100,000 nurses are expected to instrumentality portion successful strikes crossed 76 hospitals and NHS organisations putting "unprecedented pressures connected exigency services", it says.