Newspaper headlines: Cystic fibrosis drugs row and Nissan fallout

The i features a call from campaigners for the government to intervene in the long-running row over the cystic fibrosis treatment Orkambi.

It would extend the lives of many people who have the condition. But the NHS says the price set by its US manufacturer of £105,000 per patient per year is too high.

The paper reports a group representing parents of people with the disease is calling for ministers to ignore the patent protection the medication has, and make its own cheap generic version.

It's a proposal that the Guardian backs in its leader column.

It would be a very unusual but not unprecedented course of action, the Guardian says, and one worth taking.

Intellectual property rules cannot automatically outweigh health considerations, the paper argues, and the "hopes raised by this powerful drug" should "not be dashed."

Several papers continue to digest Nissan's decision to go back on its pledge to make its new X-Trail model in Sunderland, in part because of Brexit uncertainty.

The Times says ministers are considering withdrawing a £60m package of support it offered the car maker when it initially said it would make the X-Trail in the north-east of England.

"Clearly we will be reviewing it", a government source says.

Nissan's U-turn also raises questions about the ability of other British car-plants to win future work, the FT suggests.

Analyst Ian Henry, from consultancy AutoAnalysis, said Nissan's course of action "will likely be followed by more decisions at other manufacturers".

In its editorial, the Sun acknowledges that "no doubt" what has happened is a "blow to UK plc".

But the paper emphasises Nissan's backtracking is as much to do with people no longer buying diesels as Brexit, and warns Remainers against being "inexplicably smug", saying it's exactly the "condescending" attitude that lost them the referendum.

The Daily Mirror has interviewed the former prime minister, Gordon Brown, who "demands" the BBC does not abandon free licence fees for the over-75s.

The corporation is considering the move after the government made it responsible for funding the concession.

Mr Brown, who introduced the policy, criticised that decision by ministers. But he told the Mirror taking away free TV licences now would risk "criminalising pensioners".

The Financial Times reports on what it calls a "radical departure" for the furniture chain Ikea. It reports the flat pack store is considering leasing, rather than selling its products.

An executive tells the FT that the new approach, which is being trialled in Switzerland, is intended to extend the life-cycle of furniture.

It is also a response to changing consumer habits, as people grow less interested in "collect and assemble" products from out-of-town warehouses.