21/11/2011 BBC Newsline

The good evening. -- and good evening.

The headlines: The police investigate an average of 10 rape

reports every week. The rising cost of getting old and

how many of us are unprepared. The battle over the will left by

this flamboyant member of the landed gentry.

Is nothing sacred? Food for the needy stolen from the doorway of

this church. It is not Rory McIlroy grabbing a

sporting headlines. We cannot afford to a dry day

tomorrow. -- we can look forward to.

The police investigated the rate of three women in various towns over

the weekend. That may be shocking but when we look at the police

figures it emerged they received on average 10 reports of rape a week,

more than 500 a year. Even that figure does not tell the full story.

A man attacked a young woman in Portadown on Saturday morning

between three and 4 o'clock. On the same morning another attack,

another young woman the victim, in Londonderry. At around 1 o'clock

yesterday morning, a third rate, in west Belfast. The victim, in her

40s, attacked by two men. Last Tuesday, a 16-year-old girl was

raped in Banbridge. Four rapes in the past week. All four, including

the one here, were carried out by strangers. I have discovered the

police are also carrying out three other cases of rape or from the

weekend described as domestic. The police investigated 525 claims of

rape last year. That is an average of 10 claims in Northern Ireland

every week. There is no surprise about this figure among those who

help the victims. They believe there are many more cases than ever

reported. The shock for us would be that they have been reported. We

are taking, on average, anything between three and seven new contact

calls a week. Some of them are strangers, some of them are

instances of men and women who have reached a point in their life for

they feel they are able to do with historic childhood sexual abuse,

because we work with survivors of that as well, and then the other

end of the scale, people reporting rape by somebody that they know.

some people may be surprised that the number of claims, but you are

not? I would say it is the tip of the iceberg. I would say for every

500 and twenty-five claims the police are receiving, we were deal

with travel that amount. -- 525. A police are looking for help from

the local communities. As our population ages they Health

Service is spending more on caring for older people. Soon, the cost

will be unsustainable and that most people are making no provision for

their own future, a crisis is not far away. One charity says it is

already here and the social care system has already broken down. Two

reports today argue for a radical rethinking of how we look after

elderly people. To a report out today, but one big

dilemma. Simply, our taxes cannot pay for care for everybody. One

study by the University of Ulster as his ball out of five of us have

not considered saving for future care while a second study says we

need fundamental reform. That has been backed by Eid Chennai.

Currently, are elderly are means tested. I find that an unpopular

concept when I visited a day-care centre today env Dunmurry. These

pensioner's still have independence. None is in full-time residential

care. They come here to socialise. Jim is 97 answers the elderly,

having paid a lifetime of taxes, deserve free care. It should be.

When you have paid into it, you cannot understand when they say

they haven't the money. Where has it gone? Many people find they have

to pay for it and it is getting more expensive. They are laughing

all the way to the bank. It used to be homes were provided by the NHS.

They have gone. He can afford �600 a week, unless you are loaded, and

it will not last. -- who can. I would not agree with it at all. I

would be afraid to take it on, even if I could. Both reports are due it

is time to review the system. -- are due. -- are due. Just how shock

-- shocked our people when they find out the cost? There is the

shock of the system, but also the shock of the funding arrangements,

that they have to enter into. some people have to sell their home,

for example? A ultimately it comes down to that. The Health Trust will

step in initially and help people deemed of needing it, but initially

-- eventually they end up having to sell. Give me one example of an

area you think it needs to be looked at? Probably the equity side

of things. It is often people most in need are those who have to spend

most of their own money. If they are in their own home, often

services are completely free at the point of delivery. When they come

to somewhere like this there is a demand upon them to fund part of

the care themselves. One of these reports has gone to the Health

Minister. There are huge sums of money involved. It is an area where

there is going to be much debate in the future.

The future of the Health Service is the subject of a series on BBC

Newsline this week. Our Health correspondent tells us what is

planned... I our Health Service is changing. A

major review is expected to bring the biggest shake-up in a

generation. Which hospitals will close? How we pay for the care of

elderly people? Will your GP offer more services so hospitals can do

less? What changes are you prepared to make your life to reduce demand

on the NHS? So much is happening. We are here to help you make sense

of it all. This week, we have a series of special reports Looking

at the future for the Health Service in Northern Ireland. Join

the debate on Radio Ulster and BBC Newsline.

It is understood Robert Black, convicted last month for the

kidnapping and murder of Jennifer Cardy, is to appeal his conviction.

It was reported tonight his legal team will submit papers for the

appeal in the next couple of weeks. He is due to hear the minimum

tariff for the murder on the eighth of December.

Famous, but now Raymond Brown Leckey is at the centre of a legal

wrangle. And down at champions and Burren

make their first Ulster football final in 20 years. -- Down

champions. Age 70-year-old woman has died in a

crash in County Down. There was a collision on the Newry Road outside.

Passes afternoon. The trial of two men accused of

murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in March 2009

has been hearing from a forensic scientist. Scientists say a DNA

profile matched Colin Duffy and that a partial DNA profile on a

seat belt buckle was also a match. There were also tests on

matchsticks and a mobile phone, which concluded Brian Shivers could

be linked to them. Both men deny the charges.

Now the story of a flamboyant County Tyrone man and a badly over

his dying wish. -- and the battle. Raymond Brown Leckey wanted

revenues from his estate to go to two charities. We have discovered

the payments to those charities have stopped.

This is the first of two exclusive reports.

Raymond Brown Leckey was definitely one of Northern Ireland's more

colourful characters. He was part of the landed gentry and lived in a

great big house in County Tyrone, and was well known in the area as a

somewhat eccentric but very generous individual. He would be

driven by his chauffeur and he was always dressed in purple. He would

get out of the car in a velvet cloak. He had at Tyrolean hat and

lots of gold jewellery. The local people sometimes made fun of him,

which she took in bold spirits. He did a lot for the area. Faber time

they were grateful for his charity work. -- at the time. This

scrappage is a testament to Raymond Brown Leckey's charity work. It is

full of records of events he took part in, everything to raise money

for Cole to those affected by the Titanic disaster. You can see from

the articles that he had a great love of the arts. He was an actor,

a musician and a renowned female impersonator. He used his talents

to raise money for those less fortunate than him. It was no great

surprise that these passions were high in his faults when he made his

will. -- In his faults. This is the actual will that he made in 1956,

just five years before his death. Despite his colourful life he asks

to be buried in the same grave as his father and mother in the old

churchyard and that the funeral arrangements be on a simple

character. He said that how he wants his possessions and divided,

many going to the church and some are going to the government in

Northern Ireland. -- some going. The rest was to be divided between

the actors' Charitable Trust and the musicians Benevolent Fund. Both

charities are based in London and help people in the arts. The Calmac

actors' Charitable Trust works specifically with children. --

Actors terrible trust. In the 1800s we have an orphanage. Nowadays, we

have children in their own homes. Sometimes, the children have

special needs, or sometimes that Herod is ill. Sometimes we still

have orphans. The musicians Benevolent Fund helps musicians

around the UK. Musicians do not have a pension and often they do

not get sick pay. If they have a crisis they do not have the

financial ability to get through it. We are here to support them. Both

charities rely heavily on legacies for funding. It was welcome news

they were to benefit from Raymond Brown Leckey's will. The solicitor,

who has been dealing with the estate for around 30 years,

explained how they were entitled to money from two sources. Firstly,

the money raised by the sale of properties belonging to Raymond

Brown Leckey in Londonderry and secondly, from brown bread he owned

You have a responsibility to pay the ground rent. All ground rents

historically are payable half yearly on 1st May and 1st November

in areas and that is the same for everybody. There are thousands of

ground rents at all over Northern Ireland. Some for as little as a

few pounds a year, others going into the hundreds. The two

charities were to benefit from a number of ground rents but one in

particular was quite lucrative to them and it was to be paid by Derry

City Council. For a time, the charities received the money but

around 15 years ago, it stopped and no one really knows why.

Tomorrow, we will be hearing Derry City Council's response to the

claim that they owe the charity thousands of pounds.

The Christmas season is a time for giving but as our next report shows,

some people can take advantage of that spirit of generosity. Claire

Savage visited a church in County Down where donations for a

Christmas food appeal was stolen from its very doorstep.

Even in a place of worship, for some, nothing is sacred. Yesterday

during an the day service, thieves stole bags of food meant for the

needy, right from the entrance of the Church. The congregation was

still coming to terms with the news at last night's service. It appears

that during the sermon, someone came and removed FID and why we are

distressed about it is, we are not victims, it is the people who would

have been in receipt of those goods and we are dumbfounded that anybody

would feel they could take things from a church like that. The items

were meant for the East Belfast Mission so they could give

Christmas hampers have to 300 struggling families. I was

literally stunned and I am still struggling to come to terms with

this because I find it so difficult to understand. This is not a

victimless crime. What these people have done is removed food literally

from the hands of hungry people and potentially hungry children. That,

I just find impossible to understand. The mission of the food

was collected for have never had anything like this happen before in

the 12 years it has been running the appeal. Its director said it

could be a sad reflection of the spur economic times. I was quite

astonished to hear it and yet, not surprised. The climate we are in,

strange things happen and I think there are people who might be doing

things that are wrong and cannot be condoned but possibly out of

desperation. Parishioners have not been put off by this Act and have

already left enough donations to replenish the stolen food.

With European fines draining the Northern Ireland budget, today the

Department of Agriculture admitted making mistakes in administering EU

farm subsidies while calling on Brussels to acknowledge that

safeguards are being introduced and to halt the financial penalties.

From a camera mounted on an airplane, every field and farm is

now being remarked at a cost to taxpayers of �14 million. If the

new maps convince Europe that farmers are claiming only what they

are entitled to and the Department of Agriculture here is policing

their claims properly, then the investment will be worthwhile.

Bringing a halt to financial penalties from Europe which are

bleeding away taxpayers' money. Today the Agriculture Minister

admitted her department had for too long left itself open to the

European Court just and the financial penalties imposed. Into

1006, they advised a mapping system was not good enough, that our

farmers were not telling us of changes to their fields. There are

controls that they said were not vigorous and that our approach to

penalties was too lenient. Department of Agriculture was not

arguing with Brussels over their fairness, the European fines were

building up. Just four years, starting in 2005, the financial

penalties amounted to over �80 million. Still, they continued.

the department is continuing to calculate finds it has allowances

at a rate of �15 million, or at �18 million year on year, with the

minister not agree with me that that suggests two things. First,

either the minister, the new measures have been ineffective or

not been brought in at all and secondly, the negotiation with the

Commission has borne no fruit whatsoever. Persuading Europe to

stop the fines means persuading Brussels that we can be trusted not

to pay out subsidies on land covered with winds and scrub but

that is proving easier said than done. With the best will in the

world, there are just things that she cannot see properly in an

aerial photograph, things like bracken and Hedges, they can only

be a certain width at the base of a hedge but because we are looking

from above, we could only see the top of a hedge so we need farmers

to work with us to make sure that the area they claim for it is fully

eligible. Optimists hope the new maps will be enough to persuade

Europe not to impose more fines. But as yet, there is no sign of

Brussels softening its stance and will the Department can prove that

EU money is no longer at risk. There is a Rory in the sporting

headlines tonight and it is not the one you might think. Here is

Stephen Watson. Normally the Rory who hogs the

headlines is golfer Roy McIlory but in recent weeks it has been this

Rory and he is even younger. Cliftonville footballer Rory

Donnelly is just 19 but is attracting attention from

Championship clubs across the water, thanks to his goalscoring heroics.

He has netted nine in the last three weeks including four at the

weekend. Its goals like this which have made

Rory Donnelly one of the hottest properties in local football. He

has now helped Cliftonville to 10 winds in a row. And into title

contention. He is a very bright lad, he anticipates things. The only

thing that will be 10 is that if he becomes complacent. Linfield still

lead the way at the top of the table. After a 5-1 victory over

Donegal Celtic. I thought our own players stood up and were counted.

They won the right to play and I thought they played some excellent

football and deservedly took the three pounds. Portadown are in

second place, just two points adrift. Kevin grammar scored twice

in the 3-0 win against Dungannon Swifts. Glentoran are the Labour's

top scorers. Two more on Saturday earned them a victory against

Glenavon. It was very important that we got back to winning ways.

We didn't play too well but we have to start learning how to grind out

results. Crusaders were the only team in the top five to drop points,

they drew 1-1 with Lisburn Distillery.

Northern Ireland's women's football team had their best ever result on

Saturday, beating former world champions Norway 3-1 in the

European Championship qualifier at Mourneview Park. Next they face

Hungary away on Wednesday. It was never going to be easy but

after losing to Leicester, Ulster are going to have to win all their

remaining games if they are to qualify for the knockout stages of

the Heineken Cup. Ulster lost by 20-9.

The look on the Leicester coach's fierce pre-match suggested what was

to come from his team. But it was Ian Humphreys who gave Ulster some

early momentum. Stephen Ferris was that his physical best and with Ian

Humphreys on form with the bit, any Leicester mistake was penalised.

But the home side always looked dangerous. This run summed up their

threat. Ulster were in contention with 15 minutes to go but when they

gifted Leicester possession, to be flood created the only try of the

game. Ulster frustrations boiled over in the dying moments and a

penalty was knocked over in the last kick of the game to seal the

win for Leicester. Ulster will play an Italian side home and away

before Christmas. Two winds and they are still very much in

contention for poll for. He has ridden over 13,000 races,

the equivalent of 1 1/4 times around the earth and had nearly 700

falls in that time but jockey Tony McCoy has told BBC Newsline that he

has no plans to retire. He has won just about everything there is to

win in racing but he is not about to hang up his whip yet.

It is obviously getting closer but I am lucky in that I enjoy what I'm

doing and I have always enjoyed it. I am probably enjoying it more now

than I ever have done. I have never really thought about it but all

sportsmen, we'll have time limits and I'm sure that at some point,

mine will come sooner rather than later. But I'm still enjoying it, I

still love what we do and why I am doing that, I will continue for a

bit longer. Burren will make their first

appearance in an Ulster Gaelic football club final for 19 years.

The Down champions defeated Latton of Monaghan in yesterday's semi-

final and now face the current All Ireland champions in the decider.

Yesterday's semi-final was a tight affair but there was a sense that

Burren had that little bit extra. The rest of the team followed.

Three pounds inside the opening six minutes of the second half giving

the Down champions that will bit of breathing space. And a place in

next Sunday's final against the team that knocked them out of last

year's also championship, Crossmaglen. We got there it need

and we build on that but Latton came into its strong and we're

under no illusions. It was a tight winning game. Can you defeat

Crossmaglen? Yes, we can beat Crossmaglen. It is going to be a

tough job, is going to be a tough job for them to beat us. Burren

will appeal this late red card for this challenge. They will hope he

will be available for Sunday's final.

Lisnaskea Emmets Ladies team who we featured on Friday's programme won

the All Ireland intermediate club final yesterday. Caroline Little,

sister of the manager, scored the only goal of the game in one 10 to

12 points victory. Well done to them.

Peter Canavan is expected to be confirmed as Fermanagh gaelic

football manager later tonight. It hasn't been too bad a start to

the new week. It has turned cloudier but we had a hint of

sunshine first thing this morning. This was a picture just a short

time ago, you can see the cloud pushing up northwards. The rain

will become widespread for a while as we go through this evening and

overnight but eventually clearing out towards the Irish Sea, turning

drier behind that. For parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, a very cool

night at one or two degrees. Further east under that cloud cover,

not quite as cold, between three and five degrees. Some fog

developing overnight and some of that maybe slow to clear up first

thing tomorrow but after that, we are looking at a decent day, dry

and sunny. Some of that fog lingering at parts of Fermanagh but

quickly burning oven that sunshine and that sets the picture for the

day. Plenty of sunshine, perfect conditions for getting out and

about and those winds tomorrow will be fairly light as well.

Temperatures may be down a little on today but still, neither ten

degrees, above average for the time of year. Not much changes in the

second part of the day. The cloud will begin to roll in from the West

during the afternoon. Into tomorrow evening, it becomes more fresh and

the winds pick up. We will see rain edging its way in as we go through

Wednesday. Not as cold tomorrow night and then on Wednesday,