Newspaper headlines: Brexit 'deadlock', and Weinstein claims - BBC News
Friday's papers report on the latest round of Brexit talks and more claims against media mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Philip Hammond's role as chancellor is challenged by some of the papers

The Daily Telegraph says the prime minister has been forced to put her Brexit plans on hold because of what it calls a "potentially disastrous" Tory rebellion.

According to the paper, the government has delayed parliamentary scrutiny of the EU Withdrawal Bill because it faces defeat on more than a dozen hostile amendments.

The Guardian says Theresa May's government is "struggling to respond" to the "deluge" of amendments which now amount to about 300. The paper says the growing scale of the discontent in Parliament just underlines the challenge facing Mrs May over Brexit.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that Whitehall is planning to hire 2,000 extra staff to deal with Brexit in a sign, it says, of how its resources are increasingly being diverted towards the challenges of leaving the EU.

The Times focuses on the intervention of the former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Lawson, who has called on the current incumbent, Philip Hammond, to be sacked.

He says Mr Hammond's unwillingness to prepare properly for the eventuality of no deal being struck at the end of the Brexit talks is close to sabotage and should lead to his dismissal.

Nigel Lawson's demand is also the lead for the Daily Mail which carries the simple headline: "sack 'saboteur' Hammond".

The Sun claims an exclusive with its report that the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein propositioned the singer and TV presenter Myleene Klass with what it calls a "sex contract".

The paper says she declined the offer which was apparently made over lunch in 2010.

According to the LA Times, Hollywood is already starting to, in its phrase, "kick the tires" of the Weinstein Company.

It says studios, production companies, distributors and other investors have been calling bankers to assess whether to bid for pieces of the company if the firm is unable to stay afloat amid the scandal.

A number of papers carry a photograph of a Western family who have been rescued after being held by militants in Pakistan for nearly five years.

The Times reports that Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband Josh Boyle and their three children, had survived death threats during their captivity.

Josh Boyle told the Ontario Star that he and his family had been in the boot of their kidnappers' car when the rescue operation took place and five of their captors were shot dead by Pakistani security forces.

The Daily Mail is among a number of papers to tell the extraordinary story of a Dorset fisherman.

The unnamed 28-year-old had just caught a small Dover Sole which he was holding up near his face when the fish slipped out of his hands and down his throat, blocking his airways and provoking a heart attack.

His friends gave him CPR until help arrived, the fish was extracted and his pulse returned to normal.

A paramedic who treated him at the scene said: "I have never attended a more bizarre incident and I don't think I ever will."

And the Daily Telegraph recounts the distressing ordeal of Keith Boleat - a veteran of the Jersey Petanque Association.

Mr Boleat and his playing partners were on their way to an international competition in Denmark when the suitcase carrying his three steel boules was confiscated by airport authorities because they suspected they were bombs.

The 62-year-old had to make do with a borrowed set and the team duly lost - to Germany.