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Most of Friday's papers lead on the Dame Cressida Dick's resignation as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

"Cressida Ditched" is the headline on the front of , as it says she was "forced to quit", hours after insisting she was determined to stay in the job.

sets out the timeline of Dame Cressida Dicks's day - with just eight hours and nine minutes between her defiant Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio London interview and her resignation statement.

asks what took so long for "Calamity Cressida" to be fired.

According to , Dame Cressida was called to a "showdown meeting" with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Thursday afternoon to discuss her plan to reform the force - but decided to boycott it and quit instead when City Hall told her aides the proposals were inadequate.

Sources have suggested to that Mr Khan had not intended to force Dame Cressida's hand and that he had been taken aback by her decision to leave.

describes the "scramble" to replace her.

The paper says the Met is now "rudderless" while presiding over one of the most politically sensitive investigations in its history, as it prepares to question people about lockdown parties at Downing Street.

Several of the papers set out some of the potential candidates for what the Daily Mail calls the "top cop job". The Met assistant commissioner, Neil Basu, is among those mentioned frequently - but says although he is highly respected, he has a "prickly" relationship with the home secretary.

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reports that ministers are closing in on a deal with City watchdogs to unleash what Boris Johnson has called an "investment big bang" - as the prime minister seeks to prove that post-Brexit regulatory changes can boost the economy.

Sources have told the FT that progress has been made in talks with regulators aimed at allowing reforms that would permit insurance companies to invest billions of pounds in infrastructure, including green energy projects.

is concerned about the Queen's health, after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid two days after meeting his mother.

focuses on comments from a palace source, who said the Queen had no symptoms - but refused to reveal if she had the virus or not.

"Queen in Covid scare as Chas hit" is the headline in - which says she is believed to be waiting for the result of a PCR test.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer uses an opinion piece in to criticise the Stop the War coalition - in which his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn is a leading figure - and imply that the group sides with Russia against Nato.

Sir Keir writes that "the likes of" Stop the War are "at best naive" and "at worst they actively give succour to authoritarian leaders who directly threaten democracies".

And has its own unique focus on the tensions over Ukraine with the psychic, Uri Geller, claiming that sending calming thoughts to Vladimir Putin could be enough to defuse the situation.

The paper has printed a picture of a sickle, which it is urging its readers to tickle at three apparently mystical times of the day, to help stop what it describes as a "global catastrophe".