It would mean patients from Slough and Maidenhead having to travel up to 20 miles for beds at Reading's purpose-built Prospect Park Hospital.

BBC: Psychiatric patient waiting in a ward

"There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them, " she says.

CNN: AllPolitics - TIME This Week

These include not only the perseverance that kept him tramping through the slough of despond when others might have given up, but also a nimble and well-stocked mind, an approachable manner on the stump and the big prize that eludes Mr Romney a palpable sincerity.

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