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So it looks like a weekend for the winter woolies. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The Public Prosecution Service has decided NOT to bring a case | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
against a man whose palm print was found in a stolen van - | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
which was suspected of being linked to the Kingsmills killings over | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The only survivor of the attack says he understands why | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
41 years ago ten Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA and what | :00:25. | :00:38. | |
became known as the Kingsmill 's massacre. Last year during the | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
inquest into their deaths, new evidence was identified and a fresh | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
police investigation began. That evidence involved a palm print, | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
discovered on a stolen van recovered near the dock at the time which was | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
suspected of being links to the killings. The PBS says that after | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
consideration it will not prosecute the individual reported by the PSNI | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
in relation to the murder of ten people. The ascent stunt director of | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
casework concluded that there is no reasonable prospect of the | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
conviction based on evidence. How the van was handled at the time | :01:12. | :01:24. | |
was a factor. Precisely when the palm print was placed on the | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
windscreen also. The PPs is mindful of the reaction of the families. The | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
iMac rather sceptical to start with but then as the months went on I | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
thought they must be onto something. But then the policemen came to my | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
door this morning to give me the file setting out all the reasons why | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
the PPS didn't go ahead with it and really they didn't have a case. So I | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
have to accept that this was going nowhere. We don't deserve that. We | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
deserve to get the truth, we are never going to get justice, but we | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
deserve the truth, and all their families... The coroner's office has | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
confirmed that in light of the PBS decision, it is now giving | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
consideration to the scheduling updates for the Kingsmill inquest to | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
recommence. This news from the prosecution service is a knock-back | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
for the families of the Kingsmill 's victims. The focus now falls back on | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
to the coroner 's enquiry. The inquest into the death of a man | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
who died after leaving a ward at the Ulster Hospital has heard | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
of more concerns by experts in psychiatry about | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
the way he was cared for. They were giving evidence | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
about 22-year-old James Fenton, who left the mental health unit | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
in July 2010. Despite police searches, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Mr Fenton's body lay undiscovered in the hospital grounds | :02:47. | :02:47. | |
for ten weeks. This this is Ward 27, the mental | :02:48. | :03:04. | |
health unit at the Ulster Hospital with a smoking area outside. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
22-year-old James Fenton was admitted there one night in July | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
2010 back then as I troubled young man. He had been ill and his family | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
were relieved certain that the hospital would look after him. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Today, to consultant psychiatrist expressed their concern about the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
way they did. Both men based in England had written reports, one for | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the coroner, one for the Fenton family, both questioning the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
hospital diagnosis, both believing James was clinically depressed, both | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
questioning the level of supervision James received whilst on the ward. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
One professor says they had number of concerns. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
Doctor Trevor Turner concluded that the hospital didn't take appropriate | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
steps to safeguard his health given the real and immediate risk he | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
showed. He added the level of observation did not seem consistent | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
with the pattern of events leading to the condition or his mental | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
state. In court yesterday to other senior consultant psychiatrists said | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
they disagreed with those conclusions. One of them is the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
director of mental health services at the south-eastern trust defending | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the hospital was like diagnosis and actions pivotal phase all -- but the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
professor said that in one matter evidence was being cherry picked | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
supporting their view. James Fenton was lost if few dozen metres away, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
and his family has now spent four days listening to the evidence of 20 | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
witnesses, and tomorrow the coroner will issue his final findings. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
The number of agency workers doing jobs in the Northern Ireland | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
A trade union has described the situation as "disgraceful", | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
believing too many people were paid-off under a Stormont | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
The Stormont estate still home to much of the civil service but today | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
smaller than before after the Executive borrowed money to make | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
thousands of staff redundant. But in have come more and more agency | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
workers, hired through recruitment firms on a temporary basis. In June | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
2015 as job cuts started, the civil service had 380 agency workers. The | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
latest figure, post-voluntary exit scheme, for January 2017 is 889. At | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
the date annual costs which will not be clear for a few months are likely | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
to be more than ?10 million. For the non-eyeing the Executive to be spent | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
this money on agency staff a year is disgraceful, that equates to 300 | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
permanent full-time jobs. The Department of Finance told me that | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
the use of agency workers is normal practice in any large organisation, | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
and that these workers are only used sparingly. They also point out that | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
the costs are dwarfed by the savings. The department says the | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
redundancy programme has brought savings of ?152 million over the | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
past three years, and when the civil service has produced by one fifth, | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
or around 5000 full-time posts. The public service union however agrees | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
that the staff are paid off using a Treasury loan and are now back as | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
agency workers. You are borrowing money to put people out of work and | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
then go to a private sector the next day saying oh, we let too many | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
people go, can we hire from your company? Some of these people have | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
come back again so you are also paying the agency is all-round | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Northern Ireland loses, loses, loses. Peterborough diviners does | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
how many former employees have come back but it is allowed under the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
rules. It also says that a particular contract for the GB civil | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
service account by a big part in the rise of agency workers. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Still to come before the end of the programme. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
A new scheme at a hospital accident and emergency department deals with | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
a growing number of mental patients. A jury's begun considering its | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
verdict in the trial of a west Belfast man accused | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
of killing his baby daughter. Christopher O'Neill - | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
from the Whiterock Road - has pleaded not guilty to murdering | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
three-month-old Caragh Walsh She died two days after | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
being taken to hospital Mr O'Neill denies | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the prosecution case considerable violence | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
against the infant. A 22-year-old Londonderry man | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
accused over a "one-punch attack" on a footballer has had the charge | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
against him withdrawn, Matthew McDermott, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
from Cornshell Fields, had been charged with committing | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
grievous bodily harm with intent against Institute Football Club's | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Niall Grace outside a city centre Mr Grace sustained serious head | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
injuries from which he Well, we now know who all | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the candidates will be in the Assembly election - | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
voters go to the polls However only ninety will be returned | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
to Stormont unlike 108 Here's our political | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
correspondent Stephen Walker: As we have seen over the last couple | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
of weeks this is going to be a tightly fought contest and not | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
delete because it will be a small assembly and in this election there | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
will be fewer candidates. The DUP have the most in this brace with 38, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
followed by Sinn Fein on 34. The Ulster Unionist Party around 24, and | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
the SDLP and the Alliance, 21 each. The Green party are running a team, | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
the TUV, 14, conservatives, 13, and People Before Profit, seven. The | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
workers party have five candidates, the cross community labelled | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
relative, four, the BGP and citizens independent social fault Alliance, | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
three, and Ukip are only running one candidate. There are also 22 | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
independents in the field. So what will Stormont look like after the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
election? What we are electing I think is a set of MLAs who at some | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
point will take up their seats in the assembly but most immediately | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
are going to go into probably three weeks of initial negotiations, | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
whether they will prove sufficient to resolve all the SU 's, the wish | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
list of Sinn Fein, that's another matter. I don't think we will have a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
second election, which James Brokenshire has kind of half | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
signalled, I think it is more likely that we will go into a period of | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
suspension if those three weeks don't as it were resolve the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
outstanding issues. Last time, 27% of the candidates were women but on | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
this occasion it has increased to 30%. There are some familiar faces | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
stepping down including Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Katrina Ruan, and | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Catherine Seely, all missing from the ballot paper. The DUP Alistair | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Ross is standing down along with Sammy Douglas. And Ross Hussey from | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the UUP is not a candidate this time. As we move from six seater to | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
five seat as there are going to be political casualties and in this | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
election every constituency will produce a story. | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
MPs have rejected an SDLP attempt to ensure that the Government takes | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
on board the Good Friday Agreement during Brexit negotiations. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
At Westminster last night an SDLP amendment was defeated | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
The DUP and Ulster Unionist MPs backed the Brexit bill - | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
while the SDLP and the Independent MP Lady Hermon voted against. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline - coming up shortly | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt insists it won't be | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
a Roman Holiday for his side in the Six Nations this weekend. | :11:30. | :11:41. | |
The founder of a school for children with cerebral palsy has accused | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the Education Authority of failing its pupils. | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
The authority doesn't provide funding to the Buddy Bear | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
school in Dungannon, but says it sends children | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
to schools which best meets their needs according | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith reports: | :12:00. | :12:15. | |
Meet five-year-old Jack and his mum Joanne. He's happy, a little child, | :12:16. | :12:30. | |
he loves music, he is of a strong personality. Jack's cerebral palsy | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
affects his speech and movement. Elsewhere in the school, | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
three-year-old Maeve is learning to walk. She wants to walk, she wants | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
to do things her younger sister can do and I feel in my heart and I know | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
that Buddy Bear will help her to achieve that. Children with cerebral | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
palsy can go to a variety of schools depending on the severity of their | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
condition, and the parents of the 18 pupils he, though, said there this | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
is where they want their children to be taught, but nine-year-old Katie | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
is the only one whose place is paid for by the education authority and | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
that only after her father fought a long legal battle. The tribunal | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
lasted about four, four and a half years from the time we started the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
statement to the resolution. Very time-consuming, very hard on the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
soul, trying to keep motivated and fighting on and it is frankly we got | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
there that we got there in the end. The education board in my opinion | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
has failed children. The a few have a parent waiting three years for a | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
statement, and another parent going through and appear process for three | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
debt for years, the education authority cannot be proud of that. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
The authorities say they take significant account of medical | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
advice in making the decisions but Joanne has now spent two years | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
trying to get them to pay for Jackpot like a place in the School. | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
We still don't know what is going to be the result of the additional | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
authority 's decision, but I want him placed in a trust. This is a | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
story of belief, Joanne believing that Jack has the best chance of | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
progress here, but experts on the education authority said there isn't | :14:08. | :14:08. | |
the evidence to back that belief up Antrim Area Hospital has introduced | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
a new system to deal with the increasing number | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
of patients with mental health problems arriving | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
at its Emergency department. Physical and mental health | :14:20. | :14:20. | |
specialists work as a team to ensure vulnerable patients are detected | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
and are offered treatment quickly. In the past four months over 1800 | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
people have been referred. Our Health correspondent | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly reports. having had mental health problems in | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
the past? So this is a new thing for you? Tucked away from the busy | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
emergency department a member of the mental health team talks to an | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
extremely vulnerable patient who was found in a distressed state by the | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
police. How long have you been feeling that you would do yourself | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
some harm? This scheme, called raid, based as Antrim Area Hospital | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
specifically targets patients showing signs of depression and | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
anxiety or at suicide risk. This consultant psychiatrist is part of | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
the 24th emergency team. -- 24 hour. We made to have priority on mental | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
health, because it is often overlooked, and in acute hospitals | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
particularly, so if you'd have depression that has not been picked | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
up by the nursing staff on the acute wards, the Raid team can come and | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
see you, and start to give you you treatment, liaise with your GP and | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
give you the chance of recovery. In 2015, more than 6000 people turned | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
up at emergency departments across Northern Ireland as Abe result of | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
alcohol, drugs and perhaps by cutting themselves. The majority of | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
those people were aged between 16-24, and according to clinicians | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
here is the beauty of the scheme is that they are preventing a large | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
number of those men and women from slipping through the net. Thank you | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
for coming down to see us today, the doctors are still continuing to look | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
after him. It is all about teamwork, doctors and nurses and social | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
workers. That puts the right care package in place both in hospital | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
and after discharge. Praise from the woman whose mum had been admitted | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
for delirious. There were links between the different teams in | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
hospital in order to get her a very quick package of care, and she was | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
able to return home the next day. The model of care has required | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
additional resources guy but according to both staff and | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
patients, it is working, and that is good news for the health service. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
The Ireland rugby team to play Italy was named today - Stephen's here.. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
Disappointing defeat in the opening game to Scotland but Ireland hoping | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
to get a first win on the board. Joe Schmidt has made two changes | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
to the starting line-up from the side that lost | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
in Edinburgh last weekend. Prop Cian Healy comes into the front | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
row, replacing Jack McGrath - while Ulster's Iain Henderson has | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
a tight hamstring and so is Meanwhile, Craig Gilroy | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
is named on the bench. Ireland returned from Scotland | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
with a bonus point and will be hoping to get another, | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
along with a win, from their trip to Rome, | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
but the coach was quick today to stress they're taking nothing | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
for granted going into this game. It's only four years ago that | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
Ireland went to Italy and lost and so you can't get ahead of yourself | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
when we know how combative they will be. It is also if you starts chasing | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
you can get yourself into trouble, I think it is just important first and | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
foremost to get the win and if we get the win, still a lots of our | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
future is in our own hands. Both Tommy Bowe and Stuart McCloskey | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
have been released by Ireland and will now be on the bench | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
for Ulster's Pro12 clash South African Marcell Coetsea will | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
make his highly-anticipated debut, starting at number eight | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
after recovering from a knee injury Peter Nelson and Stuart Olding | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
will also make returns from injury and go straight | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
into the starting side. We'll have match build-up | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
on tomorrow night's Newsline - The seven-game winning streak | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
of the Belfast Giants came They were beaten five-one at home to | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
the Cardiff Devils in the second-leg The Giants had started | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
the evening with a five-four lead But that was quickly | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
wiped out by the Devils, Cardiff advance to the final | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
after a 9-6 win in aggregate - while Belfast will now have to focus | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
on beating them to the We just didn't seem to get out of | :18:48. | :19:00. | |
second gear and they were one step ahead of us all night and they were | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
winning the battles, it was far best one, 5- for, we can't dwell on this | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
because we are back in action on Friday and we just had to give | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
congratulations to the Cardiff Devils and how well they played. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Not their night - BUT the Giants can go top of the Elite League table | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
if they can win tomorrow night against Dundee Stars. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
Games are coming thick and fast, Tara. Really cold is denied, and | :19:25. | :19:36. | |
lots of people remarked upon bouts. Temperature is not much higher than | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
five or 6 degrees and of course we did not have the sunshine today so | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
it looked and felt really cold as well. If you are thinking ahead to | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
the weekend, those brightest eyes comeback, particularly on Saturday | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
so if you had up to the hills or mountains perhaps up went to the | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
moors this weekend at least the clouds will clear over the mountain | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
tops but it will stay very cold, the air overheads today really bitter | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
and any breeze at all will make it feel extremely cold. At the night, | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
despite the cloud, it feels cold in the breeze. Most places to stay dry | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
but the cloud thickens up to give the odd wintry flurry so one or two | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
patches of snow around as temperatures could fall to freezing | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
so any random breaks in the cloud at all. Not a widespread frost | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
tomorrow, but it will be cold and some spots of frost and ice around, | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
and it will be another cold day as well. You need to lay up, so gloves, | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
scarves, hats already. Temperatures at one or 2 degrees, may be low in | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
some spots, and the odd wintry flurry here and there as well. Don't | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
be surprised if you see some flakes of snow or a little bit of drizzle | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
at times but lots of cloud to begin with, expecting it to brighten up | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
from the north-east as the day goes on. It should cheer up a bit. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Temperatures still struggle in the cold breeze but some sunshine | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
everywhere, just about, by the end of the day. Clear skies hang on | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
tomorrow night, leading to a widespread frost, so looking at -4, | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
minus five degrees come in the countryside. Heading to the Ulster | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
match tomorrow evening? Be prepared for it to be cold, temperatures | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
above freezing at that point may be. On Saturday a frosty start but | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
thankfully a nice bright start to the weekend, dry, with some | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
sunshine, still cold, but it will look and feel a bit better compared | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
to be cloudy skies. Anyone lucky enough to go to the Italy match in | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Rome, 14 degrees there, much nicer, feeling quite spring like I'm sure. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Sunday, one of the wintry flurries, but most of the weekend will be dry. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Our late summary is at half past ten. | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
The bps says it won't prosecute a man arrested over Kingsmill | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
massacre. You can also keep in contact with us | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
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