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The Papers: NHS ‘kindness army’ and Charles test ‘queue jump’ NewsColony By BBC News Staff Image caption The Daily Express dubs the 500,000 people signing up to volunteer to help the NHS tackle coronavirus as a “kindness army”. It says the vast number of sign-ups is an “incredible display of public spirit”. The paper’s splash image shows the Queen holding her weekly meeting with the prime minister over the phone from her base in Windsor. Image caption The Daily Mirror describes the more than half a million volunteers as an “army of kindhearts”. It says the “selfless members of the public” will join the 11,000 former medics who have agreed to return to the NHS to help out the health service. Image caption “At last some good news,” the Daily Mail says. It labels the volunteers “heroes” and says the “overwhelming” response made Wednesday the “first real day of optimism” since coronavirus began to spread in the UK. Image caption It’s not all good news in the Metro, thou...