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'Susan is a very sensitive person'

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Britain's Got Talent's runner up Susan Boyle has been taken to a private clinic after being examined under the Mental Health Act.

Fred O'Neil, her friend and former voice coach tells the Today programme that Ms Boyle was "overwhelmed" by the media coverage, but that implications that she is "not in command of her full intelligence" are inaccurate.

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