We have seen the terrifying images and read the heart-rending stories.

We heard some heart-rending personal stories.

Indeed, doctors poured out heart-rending stories of uninsured elderly patients who cannot afford the drugs to keep them alive or manage their pain.

I have often been moved by their heart-rending stories through the years.

But there were heart-rending stories to be told.

Edes said Adams' real problem was "no head for figures-and a tendency to be generous to anyone with a heart-rending story."

From a broader perspective, the race aspect added significant texture to a heart-rending story.

Several people said wasn't that the most heart-rending story you'd ever hear, and had they finished all of the mead yet?

It is a depressing and often heart-rending story that tries to portray the positive side of homosexual life along with the self-destructive.

Expect heart-rending stories from the 25,000 young carers looking after disabled parents who lose £70 a week.