The Papers: Tributes to Dame Vera amid tracing app 'fiasco'

Image caption The Mirror calls Dame Vera Lynn a "true British hero" following the news of her death aged 103. She was "there for us" during World War Two and the coronavirus pandemic, it says. Dame Vera is pictured wearing her Entertainments National Service Association uniform and visiting troops in the 1940s on the front page.

Image caption The Daily Express goes with the same photograph of Dame Vera and quotes her assistant, Susan Flood, saying that the Queen was "very, very sad" on hearing the news. The paper says the Queen was "the first to be told" after "decades of friendship" with the singer.

Image caption The Metro has ditched its usual red, white and blue branding in favour of a nostalgic black and white front page paying tribute to Dame Vera. It quotes lyrics from her wartime hit We'll Meet Again below a smiling photograph of her as a young woman.

Image caption Dame Vera was the "voice of a generation", says the Daily Mail, which features a six-page souvenir tribute to the singer. In its top story, it says the governent's decision to ditch the way its coronavirus-tracing app works is an "embarrassment" and a "damaging U-turn". "How many more corona fiascos?" it asks.

Image caption Leading with the same story, the Times says "ministers played down the setback" but it will "hamper efforts to lift social-distancing restrictions". It quotes Health Secretary Matt Hancock vowing to "join forces" with Apple and Google, but reports that Apple said it had "not been... consulted about the plan to work together".

Image caption Labour's 2019 general election campaign was "a picture of dysfunctionality, toxicity and drift", according to the Guardian. Its top story is based on a 150-page review of the election by party group Labour Together. A lack of clarity on strategy and leadership, "poorly coordinated" digital content, "unrealistic" seat-targeting and the Tories' pledge to "get Brexit done" are among the review's key findings, the paper reports.

Image caption The i newspaper pays tribute to Dame Vera at the top of its front page but leads with a report that "millions" of proposed GCSE and A-Level grades are "likely to be marked down" this summer. The paper says it comes after "generous" predictions by teachers, with draft grades "higher than the average awarded last year in every subject".

Image caption The Daily Star has superimposed a smiling picture of Dame Vera sporting a poppy onto a backdrop of the white cliffs of Dover. The paper leads on Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab saying that football players' decision to take a knee "seems to be taken" from TV drama Game of Thrones. It calls it an "embarrassing gaffe". "Where do we find em?" it asks.

Image caption And a graphic on the front of the Financial Times shows the plummeting shares of German payments company Wirecard, after its auditor warned that €1.9bn (£1.7bn) was "missing from its accounts". The paper says the fintech group - once seen as "the star of the German tech sector" - has spent the past year and a half "battling to allay concerns over its accounting practices".

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