Our men and women in uniform have made us safer and more secure, and we were eternally grateful to them, but war and suffering and hardship still remain in too many corners of the globe.

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Indeed, for a country and a people who are no strangers to hardship and suffering, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible.

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She said concessions for low income families and an appeal panel for people suffering hardship because of the changes had been brought in as a result of the consultation.

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The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Right Reverend Peter Price, said attention should be drawn to cuts which caused "suffering, hardship or deprivation".

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