Within another few days he is lying on the ground, exhausted and barely able to move, as clots form in blood vessels throughout his body.

Amid a sea of tears, they hugged - barely able to comprehend the evil that happened just a few yards away.

It was when she returned to hospital barely able to breathe that the cancer was diagnosed.

Find supermarket shopping almost impossible now, barely able to walk let alone push a trolley so did my first internet shop last night.

Forced from her home by the civil war, she lived almost penniless in temporary camps barely able to find enough food.