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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain put the army on standby to deliver fuel from Tuesday after an acute shortage of truckers triggered panic buying that left fuel pumps dry across the land and raised fears that hospitals would be left without doctors and nurses. Queues of drivers snaked back from those petrol stations that were still serving in major cities, though dozens of forecourts were closed with signs saying that their petrol and diesel had run dry, Reuters reporters said. A post-Brexit shortage of lorry drivers, exacerbated by a debilitating halt to truck-driving-licence testin…