11/03/2014 BBC Newsline

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Hello and welcome to BBC Newsline. The BBC has learned that the Belfast

Health Trust is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death

of an elderly patient in the emergency department of the Royal

Victoria Hospital. The woman was brought to the Royal's emergency

department last month and lay on a trolley for four hours before being

seen by a consultant. While the woman was elderly and extremely ill,

there's concern that the delay may have been a factor in her death

which occurred around seven hours after she'd arrived in the

department. The health trust is currently examining five other cases

where a delay in treatment could have been a contributing factor in

the death. Meanwhile in another development

today and just weeks after telling BBC Newsline he wouldn't resign, the

Chief Executive of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Colm

Donaghy, announced he was quitting and moving to a new post in England.

Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. While

it is there to shoot -- treat critically ill patients, the

department itself has been in a critical position. The college of

emergency medical report described the department as being

non-sustainable. News that waiting times had

contributed to the deaths of five patients last year followed. I

cannot continue to deliver added benefit of the publishing of Belfast

and to the patients would depend on us for K -- care. Spending around ?3

million daily with a staff of over 20,000, the Belfast trust is the

second-largest the UK. For this chair, it is a thankless task. He

did an excellent job in the Northern trust was at this is the most

difficult job in Northern Ireland. I do not think anybody else could have

done better. We would struggle to get someone to take it on. That is

clearly issues about bed shortages and the need to staff up. The BBC

understands there may be further changes in June when the permanent

secretary is involved in A.D. Shuffle. The Spotlight is fixed on

one man. I think the Minister needs to take positive decisions to

safeguard and secure the delivery of services for patients within all of

Northern Ireland. Colm Donaghy 's future remains in her. He takes a

proposed in England in the summer. The key witness in the trial of two

men accused of beating an Armagh man to death, has told a court it was

the victim who started the fight. But the witness, who is the former

girlfriend of one of the defendants, said what happened had become "more

than a fight". Gordon Adair reports from Armagh Crown Court. Lindsay was

walking along this path with two men when she spotted Lee Smith coming

across this bridge. She says she saw him and Nigel Wilson square up to

each other. She says Lee Smith went for Michael Wilson and a fight

began. She urged another man to break it up but then he joined in.

The two men then overpowered Mr Smith. Michael Wilson then capped an

punching and kicking the man who the prosecution say was defenceless on

the ground. She said he was covered in such -- and so much blood he was

and recognisable. The former girlfriend gave evidence about how

he had become involved in and I command at a party the evening

before. Somebody had thrown a garden ornament at the wall of the house.

He went out, angry. He was intent on finding who had done it.

Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed to conduct an independent

review of the On the Runs scheme following the collapse of the John

Downey Trial, one of the men accused of the IRA Hyde Park bombing. Lady

Hallett, who will report to the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers,

has a legal career spanning four decades.

The former US Diplomat Richard Haass says the controversy over the on the

run letters doesn't justify any party walking away from

negotiatioins. Dr Haass chaired months of talks trying to deal with

problems associated with flags, parades and the past. Speaking to a

congressional committee in Washington this afternoon he

expressed his concerns about the potential for increased division in

the community here. What worries me in that kind of environment where

politics does not appear to be making progress alienation continues

to fester and violence could re-emerge. It is premature to put

Northern Ireland, as much as we would like to, in the outbox of

problems solved. I would love forehead to be there. I look forward

to that Dave was a bit is not there yet.

Two wallabies are still on the loose in County Down. The mother and her

joey escaped from privately-owned land in Clough near Newcastle on

Friday. Our reporter Mark Simpson spent the day on their trail. This

is what they are looking for. Wallabies. To escape here on Friday

evening. In Newcastle, it is the talk of the town. People have been

out searching for the Walkabout Wallabies. Several times we got up

and had a look about them being missing. We looked around where we

are that there were no sightings. People are keeping an eye open for

that we are hopeful that they will turn up. The little Joey is only

four weeks old. Anybody who spots the mother and baby is advised not

to approach them but to contact the police. They are unlikely of

attacking a person. It would be protective towards its young. The

future will be spooked by people, dog walkers or whoever. How many do

you think we have in Northern Ireland? We have a field that are

good at getting out. We have had a few. There are a number and they

seem adept at getting out. The problem for the search teams is that

that are so many different places to look. Miles upon miles of

countryside. If that was not bad enough, you also have the mourns.

The Walkabout Wallabies may be a long way from home.

Now with the weather here's Barra Best.

We have had another cracking spring day with plenty of sunshine. It is

much more to come tomorrow. We are in for a chilly night. Temperatures

will fall to freezing in many places. There will be a widespread

frost and there will be dense pockets of fog as well. A chilly

start tomorrow but it will brighten up as we go through the morning.

Tomorrow morning, the frost will slowly lift. Some of the fog will be

slow to clear as well. Visibility problems on some roads. Otherwise,

the high pressure remains in control across Britain and Ireland tomorrow.

The best of the early morning sunshine across Scotland and down

through northern England and into Wales. As we go through the day,

there will be some good spells of sunshine to enjoy. Towards the North

and West, integers of about 11 Celsius. -- temperatures. Out and

about tomorrow, you will need the umbrella -- you will not need the

umbrella. Feeling quite pleasant. Tomorrow evening, cloudier but is

largely dry day on Thursday. Both places staying dry. It will be a

similar picture as we head into the weekend.

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