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they've still got a long way to go. That's all from us.

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Good evening. People with eating disorders have claimed that the

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treatment they have received here has been second rate. One woman has

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told BBC Newsline that she received electric shock treatment for

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depression associated with her illness. More than 300 adults and

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109 children were treated for eating disorders here last year, as Tara

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Mills reports. Two

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Amanda Gibson has spent 20 years living with bulimia, 18 months ago

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she decided she had enough and decided to get treatment. She spent

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three months in a treatment hospital. Amanda and her sister both

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say they were surprised that the treatment she was given. Most days I

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just sat on the bed or walked around the Ward, because there was not much

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to do. Next, she was given electric shock

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therapy, or ECT, 12 sessions in six weeks.

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My memory was very bad. I had forgotten things like where I

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lived, I had to ask my mum when I lived, I forgot my last house and

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how old I am. There are concerns about children

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with eating disorders. One father whose daughter is now being treated

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in London told us the care she received at the Beachcroft unit in

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south Belfast is completely different than the regime in

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England. A complete ban on any kind of exercise, any kind of fresh air,

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any kind of home visit. She was really kept inside for two

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or three months. The health and social care board say

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they are working to improve the service. Even if we had a local

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specialist unit we may still have to send people across the water because

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of those unique and conflict situations, but I accept it would be

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ideal if we had in due course a regional specialist unit and we are

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thinking about it. Families will hope that will happen

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sooner rather than later. Two men - including a soldier in the

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Royal Irish Regiment - who were charged with murder - have admitted

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unlawfully killing a man in Armagh. Lee Smyth never regained

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consciousness after the attack four years ago. Gordon Adair reports.

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23-year-old soldier Michael Wilson, who is from the game and Gareth

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McAuley from -- Gareth McKinney from Portadown were originally charged in

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2010. The pair beat Lee Smyth that a police officer described him as

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unrecognisable. Lee Smyth never regained consciousness, spending two

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years in a nursing home before his life-support machine was switched

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off. Today as the trial here was about to go into its second day,

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lawyers for the two men asked for them to be rearranged. Again, they

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pleaded not guilty to murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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Prosecuting lawyer said that in the interests of justice he would accept

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their plea to the lesser charge. The judge then instructed the jury here

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to find them not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by way of

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confession. They will be sentenced at a later date.

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The Ulster Unionist minister Danny Kennedy says his party wants Richard

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Haass to clarify his remarks that violence could re-emerge in Northern

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Ireland. Speaking in Washington, Mr Kennedy

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said that they wanted to know how the former US diplomat, who chaired

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months of talks on parading, flags and the past, had reached that

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conclusion. We were interested in that comment,

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and clearly I would like to perhaps pursue with Dr Haass who made that

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comment to him, or whether or not he had gained that by his own

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instincts, but certainly if Republicans were in some way trying

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to bully either Dr Haass or others involved in that process by using

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that thinly veiled threat, I think that is a huge mistake.

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It has been revealed that the final bill for hearing loss claims by

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former RUC officers could be almost ?250 million.

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More than ?135 million has already been paid-out to settle over 8,500

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claims. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Vincent Kearney,

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reports. The RUC knew from the mid-1960s that

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officers engaged in firearms training should have been provided

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with proper ear protection. But they were not issued with adequate

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equipment like this for 30 years. It was a costly mistake. The BBC

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revealed two months ago that up to the end of November last year more

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than ?135 million was paid out to settle hearing loss claims by over

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8500 former police officers. More than 2000 claims have still to be

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settled and David Ford has revealed the estimated cost of doing so over

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the next five years. The bill for the next two years will be over 27

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million and more than 49 million during the following three. The

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total estimated five-year cost is more than ?103 million. That will

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bring total payments to just under ?239 million with nearly half on

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legal fees. Legal sources say they expect a significant numbers of new

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claims to be lodged. The Justice Minister was questioned on the issue

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in the Assembly yesterday. Is the Minister aware of a growing level of

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frustration at the cost of this to the public purse?

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It is an operational issue for the chief constable administered by the

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PSNI and not their apartment of justice.

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As it is an operational issue responsibility lies with the chief

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constable. More than 20,000 RUC officers are

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believed to have undergone firearms training using inadequate ear

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protection, and so far more than 11,000 have lodged claims. These

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compensation payments come on top of the redundancy scheme for police

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officers that cost around ?500 million.

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That means the combined bill for compensating officers for early

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retirement and hearing loss could be around 750 million.

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A soldier has been remanded in custody charged with murdering a

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Royal Irish Regiment soldier at his base in England. Lance Corporal

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Richard Farrell appeared in court this morning, accused of killing

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Corporal Geoffrey McNeill, from Ballymoney, at the weekend. The

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32-year-old was found dead at Clive Barracks in Shropshire on Saturday.

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The mental health charity that has been told it has to leave the coffee

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shop it runs at Hillsbrough Castle, is refusing to move. Campaigners

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trying to save the coffee shop, held a small protest outside the castle

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earlier today. Praxis says it's spent four hundred thousand pounds

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developing the garden and coffee shop, but the NIO has turned down a

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request for compensation. The running of the Castle is being taken

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over by Historic Royal Palaces who want to re-develop the grounds in a

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bid to increase visitor numbers. However the charity says it has

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"nowhere to go". The Secretary of State has said that

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she really wants is to leave within four weeks, and we have said to her

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that we have absolutely no matter moved to. We have also said to her

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that the 16 learning disabled people who depend on this site for their

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jobs are very distressed at this point in time.

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In a statement, the NIO and Historic Royal Palaces said that Praxis had

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more than a year's notice that they would have to move and that the

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terms of its licence made clear that it could not be compensated.

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And now for a look ahead to some of our news programming tomorrow.

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Figures show one in ten adolescents here self harms and Good Morning

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Ulster hears from two people about why they do it, their efforts to

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stop and who try to help them. That's from 6:30pm tomorrow.

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And now on to the weather forecast with Geoff Maskell.

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Wasn't that a fantastic day? Tomorrow is promising to be almost

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as good. Clear skies this evening mean temperature dropped off sharply

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tonight so -- then the cloud cover later on in the night. Tomorrow is

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looking not bad day, dry and mild everywhere but we have a little more

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cloud around than today. Still, it will not be bad, plenty of bright

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spells breaking through and temperatures up to the mid-teens.

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That is really reflected across the UK and Ireland, only the West coast

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of Scotland missing out. They are getting strong winds and breezes.

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Elsewhere the temperature is looking really respectable for this time of

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year, well into double figures. If you are lucky enough to be heading

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to Cheltenham Festival it will be a nice day, around 12 Celsius with a

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light breeze. For us in Northern Ireland, not a bad afternoon, plenty

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of bright and sunny spells at temperatures up around 12 or 13

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degrees. The high pressure is very much in charge of our weather over

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the next few days. We have some weak fronts coming through and that means

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we will have a little bit of rain coming through in the West on

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Friday, generally not a bad day at all. Towards the weekend, that

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lovely settled quality looks set to be with us right through until next

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week. That is it for now, from BBC Newsline, enjoy the rest of your

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evening. Good night.

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can't just magically appear from nowhere, out of thin air.

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Can it? Why have I got the lurking suspicion that we're not

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looking at a gift here but some kind of message?

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