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Recovering from Cumbria shooting

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How does a community cope with an ordeal such as the Cumbria shooting? Ron Tarry was a mayor of Hungerford when Michael Ryan shot dead 16 people in the town in 1987.

He says people got on with their lives once the media attention left: "It was a relief when the spotlight moved off."

But he says "some people may never come in terms" the events.


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