:00:11. > :00:14.How low I am Wendy Austin and welcome to a new series of the
:00:14. > :00:20.programme that examines the issues that are reported to you. This
:00:20. > :00:30.evening we are in Limavady, so we are back, we are alive and we are
:00:30. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :00:53.In Your Corner. -- we are live for. It is great to be back with you on
:00:53. > :00:57.In Your Corner. Each week we will be coming live from venues across
:00:57. > :01:02.Northern Ireland, getting right to the heart of issues that affect you
:01:03. > :01:07.and your community. We are starting in the north-west and we are live
:01:07. > :01:12.in a row Valley Arts Centre in Limavady. I have galloped up here,
:01:12. > :01:17.but our team have been here all day. They have been finding out more
:01:17. > :01:22.about this lovely centre which hosts a wide range of events. It is
:01:22. > :01:26.impressive. Better still, it is right in the heart of the town.
:01:26. > :01:29.is great to be back another the next six weeks we will be in some
:01:29. > :01:34.other great buildings in towns like Portadown, Cookstown and
:01:34. > :01:41.Enniskillen, highlighting problems and resolving disputes. What is the
:01:41. > :01:50.story in In Your Corner? Get in touch this evening. Eimear last, up
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:01:55. > :02:00.programme. Chris Moore asked coupes for clearing up the toxic mess
:02:00. > :02:04.created by criminals behind fuel laundering. We have been on the
:02:04. > :02:11.streets of Limavady to get reaction to a council initiative that he
:02:11. > :02:18.aimed at drawing tourists to the area. So all that to come. Get in
:02:18. > :02:21.touch. We are live and listening. Claire has the top story. Thank you.
:02:21. > :02:26.The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick children is the only specialist
:02:26. > :02:30.children's hospital in the UK that does not have its own MRI scanner.
:02:30. > :02:34.Local charities and the public have been raising funds to buy one, but
:02:34. > :02:37.so far the Belfast Health Trust has failed to state publicly that it
:02:37. > :02:41.will take ownership of the scanner or pay for the staff needed to run
:02:41. > :02:48.it. I met with one family who have been directly affected by the fact
:02:48. > :02:51.that the hospital does not have this key piece of equipment. Any
:02:52. > :02:58.parent who has gone through the trauma of having to rush a sick
:02:58. > :03:01.child to hospital never forget the experience. Thankfully, a with my
:03:01. > :03:05.children it has been bumps and scrapes. Just imagine rushing
:03:05. > :03:10.you're unconscious baby to hospital on Christmas morning. That is what
:03:10. > :03:16.happened to this woman and her 14 month-old daughter. She has been
:03:16. > :03:20.here in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick children ever since.
:03:20. > :03:27.life hung in a balance for nearly 36 hours. The we did not think she
:03:27. > :03:31.would make it through. She fought on and the doctors worked
:03:31. > :03:36.tirelessly and the nurses as well, trying to stabilise her and
:03:36. > :03:41.eventually, the day after Boxing Day, she was out of the life-
:03:41. > :03:47.threatening situation. From then on, we had to do different
:03:47. > :03:53.investigations and tests to find out what happened. It's is your
:03:53. > :03:58.worst nightmare. You look at her been healthy the day before and
:03:58. > :04:03.then she was lying on the verge of life or death. They have been
:04:03. > :04:07.fantastic here. Doctors do still -- doctor still don't know why she
:04:07. > :04:10.collapsed and they wanted to have an MRI scan to see if she suffered
:04:10. > :04:14.brain damage. This is the only specialist children's hospital in
:04:14. > :04:23.the UK but does not have a dedicated MRI scanner for its
:04:23. > :04:27.patients. Four Bolivia, this means been transferred from intensive
:04:27. > :04:32.care to the adult scanner. Because of her condition, moving her is
:04:32. > :04:36.fraught with danger, but the doctors have no choice. The fact
:04:36. > :04:41.that we do not have an MRI scanner and we are the only hospital in the
:04:41. > :04:46.UK not have this, speaks volumes. It is an integral part of daily
:04:46. > :04:50.life in all other children's hospitals, but children in Northern
:04:50. > :04:55.Ireland are not able to benefit from this type of scanner. Without
:04:55. > :05:00.a dedicated MRI scanner, the Children's Hospital simply has to
:05:00. > :05:08.put the sickest patients first. This tide had two scans Castle Cup,
:05:09. > :05:17.which has added to her mother's worries. How is she doing? And not
:05:17. > :05:21.too bad. Her seizures seem to have settled down. It is emotional.
:05:21. > :05:28.Seeing her having to go away to another part of the hospital and we
:05:28. > :05:32.cannot go with there. He had been waiting for this? The word two
:05:33. > :05:40.cancelled last week and we have been waiting for nearly a fortnight.
:05:40. > :05:46.This gang is to see if there is any improvement or any deterioration.
:05:46. > :05:51.We will hope and pray that she will show some improvement. It is a long
:05:51. > :06:01.time to wait. I know you want to be weather, so we will catch up with
:06:01. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:04.you later. It takes several Ambulance and Nursing Staff to
:06:04. > :06:12.transferred the child to the adult hospital and her mother isn't
:06:13. > :06:17.allowed to travel with her. As a neurologist, an MRI scan is
:06:17. > :06:23.essential for us in making a diagnosis of any condition, such as
:06:23. > :06:27.brain tumours, strokes, infection, developmental problems and epilepsy.
:06:27. > :06:32.If there are delays in getting a scan, then obviously there will be
:06:32. > :06:38.a delay in making a diagnosis and that will have a knock-on effect on
:06:38. > :06:46.treatment and therefore management of the conditions. It really is an
:06:46. > :06:51.essential cornerstone for how we manage patients. The baby has
:06:51. > :06:55.arrived in the adult hospital and is having her stand. Two years ago,
:06:55. > :06:59.four local charities came together to start an appeal to raise �2
:06:59. > :07:04.million needed to buy a scanner, just like this one, for the
:07:04. > :07:07.Children's Hospital. Now members of the public have raised �1 million
:07:07. > :07:11.for this appeal and it is important to the public, because they
:07:11. > :07:15.understand that this is a piece of machinery that will benefit all
:07:15. > :07:19.sick children in Northern Ireland. There is a problem. The charities
:07:19. > :07:23.are raising money across the province. However, the Belfast
:07:23. > :07:28.Health Trust has so far refused to state publicly that it will provide
:07:28. > :07:32.the staffing and resources that the children's scanner will need. You
:07:32. > :07:36.have said that the trust are aware of the money they you are Rainey
:07:36. > :07:41.and -- aiming to raise. Have they rubber-stamp the fact that they
:07:41. > :07:50.will staff and provide the site for at? Not yet, but we're confident
:07:50. > :07:53.that welcome in the future. fact that it is Northern Ireland's
:07:53. > :08:03.only Children's Hospital hot the -- Hospital makes it even more
:08:03. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:09.important. Our children are as important to us and they are
:08:09. > :08:15.valuable to us are as any other child. The main thing is that if we
:08:15. > :08:25.can get these tests done quicker, then making get the treatment
:08:25. > :08:28.
:08:28. > :08:32.started. It would be far better. it is very rare that a single piece
:08:32. > :08:38.of equipment and the running of that service would make such a
:08:38. > :08:43.dramatic difference to the wake in which... And the speed of which, we
:08:43. > :08:49.could diagnose conditions. We could then treat and manage them. After
:08:49. > :08:53.having her scan, the child is back in intensive care and to parents
:08:53. > :08:56.face an anxious wait on the results. Meanwhile, the charities raising
:08:56. > :09:01.money for the scanner are also anxiously waiting on the Belfast
:09:01. > :09:05.Trust to come out and back their campaign. Just to update you on a
:09:05. > :09:09.the child's condition. She has been moved out of the intensive care
:09:09. > :09:14.unit and is putting on weight and making steady and slow progress,
:09:14. > :09:20.but it is a long road ahead for her and her family. We wish them all
:09:20. > :09:24.the best. Wendy. We certainly do. With me now is Dr Richard Wright
:09:24. > :09:29.from the Belfast Hospital for Sick children and Ivan Marton from the
:09:29. > :09:33.charity helping hand. Dr Wright, no one could argue that this is a
:09:33. > :09:38.crucial piece of equipment. Is there the commitment that is
:09:38. > :09:45.required from the trust, if the charities raise the money, to put
:09:45. > :09:48.it into action? I think it is fantastic that the family have come
:09:48. > :09:52.out and being prepared to highlight this issue, which is dear to me and
:09:52. > :09:56.dear to the trust and it takes real courage to do that and that is
:09:56. > :10:00.fantastic. We are fully committed to the project as a practising
:10:01. > :10:05.radiologist, this is close to my heart and a project that we really
:10:05. > :10:09.want to see as soon as possible. One of the problems is that in
:10:09. > :10:14.Northern Ireland, we require the full backing of our commissioners
:10:14. > :10:18.and the Department of Health to go ahead with this, so we prepared a
:10:18. > :10:21.full business case and that is now with the department and with the
:10:21. > :10:25.health board for their consideration. I am quietly
:10:25. > :10:29.confident that we will get a green light on this in a knot too distant
:10:29. > :10:36.future. I can Marton, is that we Duke and the other charities want
:10:36. > :10:41.to hear. Obviously. This is a no- brainer. It has been said several
:10:41. > :10:44.times already. But the children's Hospital, the only regional
:10:44. > :10:49.hospital without a dedicated scanner for children, this just
:10:49. > :10:53.isn't good enough. We set about raising the money. We hope to be in
:10:53. > :10:58.a position in a couple of weeks' time to make an announcement
:10:58. > :11:02.officially that we have passed the one Indian pounds mark. We are
:11:02. > :11:06.aiming for �2 million and we want to keep going until we get that. We
:11:06. > :11:12.keep hearing from the Coalition government at Westminster that we
:11:12. > :11:16.are all part of the "big society" and the people in Northern Ireland
:11:16. > :11:23.are being part of that and they are playing their part, they are
:11:23. > :11:29.joining in and raising this money. At that point, at the Department
:11:29. > :11:33.and the trust need to join in, join up to the "big society" and we get
:11:33. > :11:36.our scanner. On what basis we raising the money? Did you think
:11:36. > :11:43.you have a commitment from the trust before you started to raise
:11:43. > :11:49.it? What sort of negotiations have taken place? We have had several
:11:49. > :11:54.discussions. There has never been a firm commitment. He went ahead and
:11:54. > :11:59.raise the money? I figured if we raised �2 million for a scanner it
:11:59. > :12:04.would be pretty hard for anyone to make a case for setting it in a
:12:04. > :12:10.room and not using it. We have actually built in some money to
:12:10. > :12:16.this appeal, to insure that as soon as the scanner is purchased and
:12:16. > :12:20.installed, there are funds they have to start it off. That. There
:12:20. > :12:25.is no point in this money been raised and it not been able to be
:12:25. > :12:28.staffed, because you have a gun put to your head and left with no
:12:28. > :12:33.alternative. We have been behind this project from the early days. I
:12:33. > :12:37.should make one point. It is slightly mischievous to say there
:12:37. > :12:41.is no service at the children's hospital. There is a quality MRA
:12:41. > :12:45.service, the problem is it isn't located in the building. It is
:12:45. > :12:49.within a few hundred yards. That isn't where we want to be. It is
:12:49. > :12:54.important for parents to know that if the need a scan and need one
:12:54. > :13:01.urgently, it can be provided. What is important about the money that
:13:01. > :13:06.has been raised... It isn't just about the equipment, the staff have
:13:06. > :13:09.to be there to run out, the building has to be there. It is
:13:09. > :13:16.very frustrating for us and parents that we cannot do it immediately.
:13:16. > :13:21.It takes a bit of time. On what stage was this business case put
:13:22. > :13:27.together? Was a dinner last few days? It has been worked on for the
:13:27. > :13:32.last six months. It is detailed. There have been experiences and
:13:32. > :13:38.problems in the past were money has been raised... It has gone and the
:13:38. > :13:46.last few days. That is the normal process. There is nothing unusual
:13:46. > :13:55.about that. I am delighted. We are after the same objective here. We
:13:55. > :13:58.are grateful for the charities. Thank you. It is enormously
:13:58. > :14:01.important to parents all over Northern Ireland and we have
:14:01. > :14:05.brought some resolution to what has been at a confusing picture for
:14:05. > :14:09.everyone. We will continue to follow the story and keep you up-
:14:09. > :14:15.to-date with any developments, so keep in touch with us and let us
:14:15. > :14:19.know what you think. Maybe it has affected you? It is great to be in
:14:19. > :14:29.Limavady in the centre, but our reporter has been out and about as
:14:29. > :14:42.
:14:43. > :14:46.well, hearing what is the top of the town. -- top of the town.
:14:46. > :14:50.there is a new way to enjoy and learn about Limavady. A new app has
:14:50. > :14:54.been designed for smart phones to try and attract tourists. The app
:14:54. > :15:00.has many features, including an ordeal trail that take you on a
:15:00. > :15:10.walking tour of the town. Here on Main Street, we are here to ask
:15:10. > :15:10.
:15:10. > :15:19.locals what attractions they would Well there's lakes with trout and
:15:19. > :15:23.salmon. The beach. Would you go on your day off? I'd go for a walk on
:15:23. > :15:27.the beach. Hello. Today there's been a new app released for your
:15:27. > :15:37.smartphone to get tour toists come here and see what's on offer.
:15:37. > :15:42.idea. Certainly is - what's an app and an iPhone? I would say it would
:15:42. > :15:50.be very nice. Do you think it's a nice place for people to visit.
:15:50. > :15:56.Beautiful, lovely and scenic. like the Town Hall at the moment.
:15:56. > :15:59.You want to know what I think about tourists in Limavady? I do. We are
:16:00. > :16:05.completely useless at advertising what we have got. It's the best
:16:05. > :16:10.place in Northern Ireland, bar none. There's not very much here now with
:16:10. > :16:15.the downturn, it seems to have lost a lot of shops and businesses,
:16:15. > :16:21.which are greatly missed. There's not that much to do. But it's a
:16:21. > :16:28.happy, wee town, that's the best thing you can want. I enjoy
:16:28. > :16:32.Limavady. People are very friendly. Hi Ronnie. Exactly! Certainly is a
:16:32. > :16:35.friendly place indeed. We've been made to feel very welcome today.
:16:35. > :16:37.Don't forget this programme is all about the issues which are
:16:37. > :16:41.important to you, issues that affect you and your community.
:16:41. > :16:47.You've been getting in touch with us. Great to hear from you. We've a
:16:47. > :16:51.message from Brendan on Facebook. He would love to see a piece on
:16:51. > :16:55.poor housing conditions students have to endure whilst paying high
:16:55. > :16:57.rent. Mark says, why don't you cover the price of insurance in
:16:57. > :17:03.Northern Ireland compared to the rest of the UK. Thanks for your
:17:03. > :17:08.comments. Keep them coming on e- mail or join the discussion online.
:17:08. > :17:12.Now this is the newest member of the team, Chris Moore and you know
:17:12. > :17:19.the way the new guy gets the dirty jobs? No difference here. Chris
:17:19. > :17:23.you've been digging in the dirt left behind by fuel smugglers.
:17:23. > :17:30.in counties down and Armagh criminal gangs are making millions
:17:30. > :17:34.from removing millions from removing red dye from farm
:17:34. > :17:38.machineries and selling it on. But it's creating an environmental
:17:38. > :17:43.hazards. It's local councils with responsibility for the environment
:17:43. > :17:53.having to Dick deep into the rate payers' coughers to clean up after
:17:53. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:06.This dominates the South Armagh skyline and is a major tourist
:18:06. > :18:10.attraction along the Armagh border. There's something unpleasant in the
:18:10. > :18:20.air, hidden behind hedges, it's this stuff, the sludge-like waste
:18:20. > :18:20.
:18:20. > :18:25.that's evidence of a criminal enterprise worth millions of pounds.
:18:25. > :18:31.Fuller's earth or even cat litter is used to filter and remove red
:18:31. > :18:35.dye from low tax agricultural diesel so it can be sold on as high
:18:35. > :18:44.tax commercial fuel. The by-product is tons of toxic waste that
:18:44. > :18:48.criminals dump anywhere they won't be seen. Patrick. Hello Chris.
:18:48. > :18:54.Pleased to meet you. Thank you very much for taking the time to meet us
:18:54. > :19:04.here. Beautiful setting. Yes. going to see a site now. Shall we
:19:04. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:13.get in your motor and head up that Patrick is the local council's
:19:13. > :19:23.Environmental Health officer. His job is to track down and clean up
:19:23. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:28.laundered waste. When we received the report from a local member of
:19:28. > :19:33.the public, what we do is confirm the type of dumping here, just
:19:33. > :19:38.confirm it's laundered fuel waste then we hand the case over to the
:19:38. > :19:43.Environment Agency, whose responsibility it is. Some of the
:19:43. > :19:48.containers are leaking. Obviously, some of those containers would
:19:48. > :19:55.contain diesel fuel and sulphuric acid used for laundering the fuel.
:19:55. > :20:00.This stuff leaks out of them, some of these cubes burst open. Yeah,
:20:00. > :20:09.unfortunately, I suppose in the haste to get them dumped some of
:20:09. > :20:13.the tip out. Again, you can see there's a leak of that. There's a
:20:13. > :20:19.danger of getting into water courses. This is my small holding
:20:19. > :20:22.here where I keep the livestock and keep them fed. Farmers are afraid
:20:22. > :20:29.that toxic lakes from diesel laundering will pollute water
:20:29. > :20:34.supplies to livestock. Farmer Terry Hearty is also a local councillor.
:20:34. > :20:37.The fears I have is a lot of dumping takes place on the high
:20:38. > :20:45.ground. With all the rains down on this farm here heading into the
:20:45. > :20:49.river. It's the time of the year when livestock are out and drinking
:20:49. > :20:54.out of drains like I have here, them cattle could be poisoned. That
:20:54. > :20:57.would be a serious, like small farms like we have here, to lose
:20:57. > :21:02.livestock or sickness and livestock and that would be a serious blow to
:21:02. > :21:06.us. Are you fearful of actually putting your cattle into this field
:21:06. > :21:11.here beside us? I am at the minute. If I put me cattle out here in
:21:11. > :21:15.March and the dumping continues on the high ground beside me, I'll
:21:15. > :21:21.have to fence that off and put a water supply into the cattle. I
:21:21. > :21:26.couldn't use it. Illegal fuel is sold across the country, but it's
:21:26. > :21:34.here along the Down Armagh border that the waste is dumped. For the
:21:34. > :21:42.criminal gangs, it's big business. As a rule of thumb, each of these
:21:42. > :21:47.cubes represents 100,000 litres of laundered red diesel. That brings
:21:47. > :21:51.the launderers a clear profit of �50,000. With 100 cubes on this
:21:51. > :22:01.site alone, that leaves the criminals picking up a cool �5
:22:01. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:14.We've had occasions where these have been abandoned along the
:22:15. > :22:18.roadside. They can contain up to 25, 30, 35 of these IBC containers.
:22:18. > :22:24.Diesel laundering waste was first dumped on this site as many as nine
:22:24. > :22:28.months ago. The council could have cleaned up this site on the very
:22:28. > :22:31.first day that waste was dumped here. But they didn't. Instead they
:22:32. > :22:36.decided to wait for the Environment Agency to track down and legally
:22:36. > :22:44.enforce the land owner to pay for the clean up of this site. While
:22:44. > :22:47.going to pay for it, the fact is that the local, the community is
:22:47. > :22:52.suffering over there. The community right across is suffering because
:22:52. > :22:56.of the dangers that site brings to that entire area.
:22:56. > :23:04.And cleaning up the diesel mess has proven to be costly for the local
:23:04. > :23:08.rate payers. Last year, it cost Armagh Council �50,000 and another
:23:08. > :23:12.council �84,000. If you were faced with clearing up that site we've
:23:12. > :23:17.been on, on private land, what do you reckon the cost would be to the
:23:17. > :23:23.council? Around �30,000 to �35,000 just for that one site. It's a lot
:23:23. > :23:27.of money. Interestingly, there have been developments since Chris's
:23:27. > :23:31.report was filmed. We've been working on this story for a while
:23:31. > :23:35.now. Last week the council took the decision to begin clearing up the
:23:35. > :23:38.site featured in the report. So while there seems to be some
:23:38. > :23:42.resolution in this particular case, the wider issue about who is
:23:42. > :23:48.financially responsible for cleaning up the mess in general is
:23:48. > :23:51.still unresolved. Let's talk about this with Kevin Skullion and Dave
:23:51. > :23:57.Foster from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Thanks very
:23:57. > :24:01.much for coming along this evening. This is a horrible mess. It's a
:24:01. > :24:03.dreadful blight on the landscape. It's affecting communities and most
:24:03. > :24:10.importantly, the environment. You're the Environment Agency, so
:24:10. > :24:13.why on earth have you not moved in and cleaned more of these areas up?
:24:13. > :24:18.It certainly is a very serious issue. This sort of waste crime is
:24:18. > :24:22.classed in the context of things like people trafficking and drug
:24:22. > :24:26.trafficking. We realise it is a serious business. Our first
:24:26. > :24:30.priority is to deal with the enforcement and track down the
:24:31. > :24:34.offender and as you see from the piece, a lot of money is made by
:24:34. > :24:37.this. Our principle will be we make the polluter pay. We're also
:24:37. > :24:41.seeking to make sure that the immediate threat to the environment
:24:41. > :24:46.is dealt with. Indeed. Does that not, since you're the Environment
:24:46. > :24:49.Agency, is that not skewed, let the police or HMRC or whoever else
:24:49. > :24:53.chases the perpetrator or the person who owns the land and you
:24:53. > :24:59.clean it up in the meantime. Certainly, where we see a problem,
:24:59. > :25:05.we work with local councils to limit the damage. We recognise that
:25:05. > :25:15.HMRC have a role it play. The legislation is complex. I was
:25:15. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:20.talking with Kevin earlier on. We recognise it's complex. We're
:25:20. > :25:24.working with the local government now to work out how to deploy
:25:24. > :25:28.things to the best effect. It will be interesting to see how that
:25:28. > :25:32.works. When I talk about the land owner, I wasn't referring to this
:25:32. > :25:35.particular case. But there are sites right along the boarder in a
:25:35. > :25:45.similarly awful state. Why should your rate payers have to pay for
:25:45. > :25:47.
:25:47. > :25:50.it? Indeed. That's the case that we have to the department. This is a
:25:50. > :25:53.problem that should be spread across the whole of the country and
:25:53. > :25:57.there should be a central fund for this, for these waste sites to be
:25:57. > :26:01.cleaned up with. That's how it is in the Republic of Ireland. The
:26:01. > :26:06.councils clear up the site but they get a refund for all the works they
:26:06. > :26:10.have to take. Equally, you have cleaned this up now, this site that
:26:10. > :26:14.we've been looking at, and as we heard from Chris, you could have
:26:14. > :26:18.cleaned it up on the first day it was dumped there. It's a cat-and-
:26:18. > :26:22.mouse game almost that's going on between your council and the other
:26:22. > :26:27.agencies. We don't want to get into too many specifics about this site.
:26:27. > :26:31.On this site there were interesting aspects with this. There was
:26:31. > :26:35.something like 127 tons of waste on the site. Last year we removed
:26:35. > :26:40.something like 160 tons throughout the district. That was almost the
:26:40. > :26:43.same of the whole of the last year. It was huge? It was. It was
:26:43. > :26:45.important that some sort of investigation was carried out. We
:26:45. > :26:49.have to remember the prime responsibility for this crime is
:26:49. > :26:52.the people who actually put the waste there. By and large, we won't
:26:52. > :26:55.be able to get those people. But the land owner has a responsibility
:26:55. > :26:59.to take steps to secure his property to ensure this kiem does
:26:59. > :27:03.not take place. Before we spend rate payers' money it's important
:27:03. > :27:08.that those steps are taken to identify the culprit and make them
:27:08. > :27:12.bear the costs of the clean up. Finally, there's legislation in the
:27:12. > :27:18.pipeline, it seems, on all of this, it's been slow to get to the point
:27:18. > :27:22.that it's at now. How soon do you think there may be a real change in
:27:22. > :27:27.this? The legislation is there. We need to make it operational. The
:27:27. > :27:30.minister is keen we make progress with local Government. We've now
:27:30. > :27:36.established in principle a pilot study with six councils we hope to
:27:36. > :27:40.start in the next few weeks. Thank you both very much for coming along.
:27:40. > :27:45.You've been letting us know what the story is in your corner. Plenty
:27:45. > :27:52.of messages from the people at home on the MRI scanner. Louise says "It
:27:52. > :27:58.would be great to get the scanner. We need commitment from Mr Putts on
:27:58. > :28:02.funding and staff." That's all for tonight. Contact me on e-mail or
:28:03. > :28:07.join the discussion online. Next week we're live from Portadown
:28:07. > :28:10.health centre in County Armagh. Then we travel to Cookstown and
:28:10. > :28:15.then Newtownabbey. That's it for this week. Thank you