Lee had learning difficulties and was vulnerable.
This, one must hope, will be the case with Trott, whatever the nature of his sudden difficulties.
Child and adolescent mental health referrals are accepted only if they have severe mental health difficulties; GPs are asked to manage the remaining patients, yet we are not trained in child psychiatry.
Because of the difficulties being faced by the commercially financed public service broadcasters - ITV, Channel 4 and Five, the idea that the public broadcasting system could only be preserved by offering them direct public subsidies started to catch on.
Smith's work explores the difficulties faced by the remote community and also looks at the cultural fabric that remains in the face of those challenges.
In particular, governments should give priority to providing employment and training measures for the long-term unemployed who experience a range of difficulties in finding jobs and are most likely to drop out of the labour force," it added.
Young British artists invited abroad very seldom face the difficulties faced by young artists who live outside the EU and are invited to perform here.
4. The US supreme court in 2002 banned executions for prisoners who are "mentally retarded" – in other words, those with learning difficulties.
But the Lib Dems' difficulties will not end when and if the tuition fees row dies down.
This town, which has suffered over various recessions, had real economic difficulties, deindustrialisation, in the seventies and eighties, hit us hard as a town.
The transsexual blogger Sarah Brown explained the special difficulties she faces: "My papers are not in order, and so I'm not going to the party conference".
