28/12/2016 BBC Newsline


28/12/2016

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Good evening, this is BBC Newsline. teams where you are.

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A 12-year-old boy has been praised for helping to save a brother

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whose clothes caught fire at their home on Boxing Day.

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Their father tried to tackle the blaze, which engulfed

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their family home in Magilligan on the north coast, on Boxing Day.

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BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been to the scene.

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Five people were trapped in this house when the fire broke out -

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including two brothers, 12-year-old Ben and 9-year-old Rhys.

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Today his father explained what happened.

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His arm caught fire. We tried to get it out, to put it out, but when I

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looked round and I noticed the actual house was on fire so I said

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to the eldest son, Ben, get Rhys out while I deal with the fire. It

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happened in seconds. Then kept saying we need to get up the stairs

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and out. And then all of us got out onto the flat roof at the back. I

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was able to climb down and then Ben climbed down. He helped Rhys down as

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well. It was unbelievable. He's a hero. There were five lives there.

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Young Rhys suffered third degree burns.

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He was in intensive care in hospital but his condition has now improved.

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The Boxing Day fire destroyed the ground floor of the house

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including the children's Christmas presents.

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Two back days after the fire there is still the smell of smoke in the

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air. People in the area are shocked but there is also the recognition

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that the outcome could have been much worse.

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A man's been rescued from the sea by lifeboat volunteers in Bangor.

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He's now in a stable condition in hospital.

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The alarm was raised by a council worker,

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who heard faint shouts from the water at about

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He called the Coastguard, and a lifeboat crew found the man

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barely conscious about 200 metres off shore in Ballyholme Bay.

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A colleague of mine drew me towards some shouting coming from the beach.

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Initially I thought summary had maybe fallen on the beach. When I

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came onto the beach we discovered somebody in the water. One of our

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crew entered the water to take hold of him, to make sure he would not

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disappear from us. We manoeuvred the boat alongside and got him out of

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the water. He was hypothermia it as he was barely conscious, so getting

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him out of the water safety is a difficult task because such

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casualties are at risk of cardiac arrest.

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Patients and health professionals will be watching closely to see

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if promised health service reforms begin to take shape in the New Year.

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Our health correspondent, Marie Louise Connolly, looks back

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on a year when the Minister said the system was at breaking point.

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It's been a year of giving, taking and delivering. In January Chris

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Butcher gave his three rolled daughter one of his kidneys. Belfast

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man Charles Lumet received a cornea transplant from a stranger. And

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paramedic Robert Montgomery delivered another baby in his

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ambulance. Things proceeded very quickly. The baby was born. But 2016

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has also been dominated by big issues including waiting lists. By

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November, 2000 -- many people were on a list to go into hospital. Stop

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this wasting. Fix the dam thing. Once and for all. The health

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minister admitted things had to change. Some of the waiting times

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are totally unacceptable and we need drugs to transform how we deliver

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social care. Step forward this professor who provided a blueprint

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for reform. The Minister responded with her plan but with no mention of

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closing hospitals will stop in the meantime some services will be due

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to struggle. Our service is already broken. We are not providing the

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service we want to, to our site patients. The health service is all

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about serving patients. Our investigations revealed many of

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those with mental health problems and those relying on Apple and

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service are being let down. The controversial issue of abortion

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raises on. A woman received a suspended prison sentence after

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buying drugs online to end her pregnancy. And we are waiting for

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Eric, the decision that these laws breach abortion rights. Let's end

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with a reminder that the health service not only improves but saves

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lives. The big Christmas Pantomime in

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Londonderry this year is Cinderella. But, as Keiron Tourish

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reports, the production at the Millennium Theatre is also

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offering something different It's an afternoon of nostalgia and

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these performances bring together the cast of the Christmas panto who

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sing for people living with dementia. Carers bring along their

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relatives who can spend an hour or two socialising and reminiscing

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about songs they've grown to love over the years. Just want to make

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people better for people with dementia. We want to support people

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with dementia and help them work well with it because that we know

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they can. Oh, we were dancing to such beautiful music... The

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performances also pave the way forward is hoped will be a

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stress-free trip to the pantomime in the theatre it self. It has been

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proven that people suffering with dementia respond well to music.

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These sessions allow them to interact with pantomime. It also

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helps to know what they are going to be seeing where they come into the

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performance. It can be quite daunting for them. For those living

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with dementia it has been an enjoyable experience. It meant an

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awful lot to me. I'd be sitting in, watching the TV. I can't go outside,

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on my own, you know? They treat you like people. They don't treat you

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like you're some kind of... They're lovely. For everyone involved it is

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hoped the project will in crease greater understanding of dementia.

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Hello it's not been a bad day outdoors and we have another coming

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up tomorrow. Many of us will avoid any frosty conditions as

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temperatures stay at four or 5 degrees but in countryside areas it

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will be cooler. The high pressure remains in control tomorrow and high

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-- sunny spells will be there. Temperatures may read nine or 10

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degrees. It will not be sunny all the time, there will be cloud coming

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and going but it is likely to stay dry for many of us with some good

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sunny gaps. If you are travelling across the island, not a great deal

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of difference. Plenty of dry weather and sunshine. It might feel a bit

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nippy across the south-west and the West Coast with the winds. Tomorrow

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evening will stay dry and it will likely stay that way for most of

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tomorrow night. It will be a milder night, too. Temperatures will fall

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to seven or 8 degrees. Temperatures we normally see by day at this time

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of year. A milder day come Friday but also unsettled. The cloud will

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be ringing some patchy light rain or drizzle but some of us will reach 11

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or 12 degrees. It will stay mild for New Year's Eve but we are expecting

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rain later on in the day. The timing of that is still uncertain but we

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will keep an ion things. Our next BBC Newsline bulletin

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is at 10:40 tonight.

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