22/11/2011 BBC Newsline

Good evening. The headlines: A quarter of adults are obese.

The health service is weighed down by a deepening crisis. It is a

tidal save -- tidal wave of obesity related morbidity in the next five

to 10 years. Six former security sites devoted

to his dormant, but has it been wasted?

How Derry City Council is a descent of a dispute over a 50-year-old

charitable legacy. If we have tried to pursue it. As a charity, there

comes a point where you are pursuing �300 the year with no

guarantee you will get it. A warning that the property market

will not recover during our lifetime.

The weather will be changing tomorrow. I will have the details

shortly. Our health service is about to face

its biggest upheaval for decades. There are going to be fundamental

changes in the way patients are treated. The emphasis will be on

caring the community. It is part of a major review which will be handed

to the health minister at the end of the month. This week, we are

looking closely at the big issues facing our local health service.

Our correspondent is with us. Such a vast and complex area. That's

right. So many different issues. The NHS promises to deliver

services from the cradle to grave. But demand is colossal. In order to

keep delivering, the current health review team is looking at how it

can spend its budget differently. How it can shift money away from

hospitals back into the community instead. That is its aim. 44% of

the budget is spent on hospitals. If it wants to provide care-in-the-

community to elderly people, the GP practices are going to have to

deliver more services because it is cheaper. They will shift money away

from hospitals. The Executive of the Health and Social Care Bill

board said this morning that we have a love affair with buildings.

That is a subtle hint that buildings are going to change.

Perhaps the hospital in Newry will be downgraded in future. We have

seen accident and emergency services closing. This is a time

for change. Those carrying out the review know they have to grasp it

this time. If tonight you are going to look at one big problem in

Northern Ireland, and that is obesity.

Yes. By preventing diseases such as obesity, not only will the public

loos pounds, it will also save the NHS pounds in the long run.

Diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and strokes cost an awful

lot of money. Our viewers will be shocked by what is now classified

as obese. Quit smoking, drink less and

exercise more and eat sensibly. That is a message the NHS has been

promoting four years. It has been supportive of those who over-

indulge, but now it wants people to indulge, but now it wants people to

act more responsibly. Obesity is spreading fast. 20% of adults here

are obese. 8% of children are also are obese. 8% of children are also

affected. The disease cost the economy hundreds of millions of

pounds. A these are linked and and a hand by weight. Dr Mike Ryan is a

busy man. He runs the first of the City manager and Greenwich in the

Northern Health Trust. He has had 2000 referrals in one year. It is a

tidal wave of obesity related morbidity is. A less significant

resources are put in now, not just in prevention, which is important,

but also in intervention for people who are already affected by weight

related problems, the health service will not be able to afford

treatment 5th -- for these patients. This man is hardly your typical

obesity patient, inside, at the extra pounds were enough to trigger

a catalogue of illnesses. I have had major heart surgery. Having

been committed and gone through that and survived it, I have got to

do something more for myself, and that is more exercise, better diet

and so on. This programme is presented to me. The weight loss

has helped, and I am walking malt had had a better diet. Treated all

these obesity related diseases soaks up 20% of the health budget.

Eating schemes like this one or are not new. The current review is

looking at how future programmes can be retained in order to save

the health service money. Why do you like making fruit kebabs?

make you healthy. This will take time. It is not a quick solution,

nor is being overweight or being the bees. It is about sustained is

at home, in schools and beyond. protect the public and their health

service, Denmark has slapped a fast tax on foods such as milk, cheese

and Pisa. Some might find that hard to digest, but others believe the

issue is not been taken seriously enough. If it is a time for action.

Delay after delay is not doing the health of our children any good.

These delays are totally acceptable. People are dithering. While

introducing a fast tax may seem a little extreme, the Prime Minister

David Cameron says he will consider this measure. Obesity is such a did

issue that the Government must be given thinking bigger and funder

curdling. -- accordingly. We look at the costs of looking

after elderly people in their own homes tomorrow. The obesity debate

homes tomorrow. The obesity debate has been generating interest on our

has been generating interest on our Facebook page. You can join him.

The spending watchdog has criticise the office of the First and Deputy

First Minister over what it says is the slow pace of developing for

their security sides. The Audit Office has concerns that the sale

of one site may not have realise his full value. Up here -- Business

Correspondent reports. By 2004, the Ministry of Defence

had 56 former security sites to the office of the First and Deputy

First Minister. Apart from opening the jail to the public and building

the bridge at the former barracks, or the Audit Office says the pace

of regeneration has been slowed. You have to realise that half of

the money that could have been spent has been spent. We could have

seen much more capital billed as well as employment. It is a missed

opportunity. The Audit Office is critical of the sale of the former

army base in 2003. The site has since been built on and now

contains 74 partners. Initially, a valuation of �5 million was placed

on the site. A short time later, it was sold to a private developer for

�3.8 million. That developed her then sold the site on the same day

he bought it. The Audit Office could not establish how much the

site was sold on for. This it says it is concerned that the maximum

prize for the former base was not achieved. So the Department of Fine

essence disagree with this. This side still has to be developed.

could have had a stadium which would have been the hallmark of

Northern Ireland and have brought people together. We could have had

a development around it, but instead it has gone dead. The cost

of removing waste from the Maze will reach �8.5 million. That shows

how important it is for the Stormont Executive to investigate

the costs involved if it is offered any MoD sites in the future.

Still to come, a warning that there is there is great for anyone now

stuck in negative equity. And we talk to the great hope he

has returned to help rival County Fermanagh.

For a more on our investigation into the legacy of a County Tyrone

man and the charities that should still be benefiting from his will.

It was Raymond Browne Lecky's dying wish that these charities should

receive money long after he had died. 50 years later, BBC Newsline

has discovered it has been years since they have received any money.

Londonderry celebrated his election one year ago as the UK's City of

Culture. Two charities which support the arts say they are

waiting for the city council to pay them thousands of pounds.

In the 1920s and 30s, Raymond Browne Lecky made several visits to

this orphanage in London. It had been set up to look at -- after the

illegitimate children are actresses. It touched his heart, because when

he died, he left half of the remainder of his estate to the

charity which ran it. The other half of his estate was left to be

Musicians' Benevolent Fund, which held positions in difficulty.

This man needed they held earlier this year when he had to have an

operation to remove a brain tumour. I had to stop working and playing.

It affected me. It was hard. I contacted the Musicians' Benevolent

Fund and asked for help, which they did. I'm so pleased, because I

would have been, I do not know. I could not have paid my mortgage.

Both charities have received �25,000 each from the estate of

Raymond Browne Lecky. But they say they are owed much more. Most of

the money they believe they should be receiving comes from the rent

from his property in Londonderry, the swimming baths run by Derry

City Council. 15 years ago, the payments stopped. No-one knows why.

In total, the council only have to pay around 600 and see year in rent.

That was worth something 50 years ago. Now, of course, it is worth

much less. It is still very valuable to the two charities who

should be sharing it. Especially when you add up all the years of

ground rent which have not been paid by council. It comes to around

�10,000. That means that �5,000 to each charity has not been paid.

would still do an awful lot for a charity. We could help 10 to 15

young people get through some sort of injury. We could have three or

four professional musicians going through serious illnesses. All,

with �5,000, we could help five to 10 retired musicians with quality

of life grants. It would pay five child to has been orphaned to be

able to have a holiday and learn the piano. They would not happen

otherwise. �5,000, we have got children desperately waiting for

such equipment. It changes lives. So why did the money stop? We have

the documents that show the council was liable to pay the ground rents

as far back as 1962. We also have the documents to show they had been

paying its sporadically as late as the early 1990s. Then the tears and

said a letter asking for proof that they owed them money. They wanted a

copy of the deed. The actual document could not be turned up.

The fact that the landlord could not produce what is called the

Counterpart deed, the original deed would be in the hands of the person

who holds the ground. That is Derry City Council. And that is a deed

that the council is in possession of. They passed on a copy of it to

family researcher Alex Watson. gave it to be easily. They had no

problem at all in providing that to me. On the title deed, it clearly

says that the ground rent owed on this property is a rent to be paid

for ever. BBC Newsline asked Derry City Council why they had stopped

paying the ground rent. No-one was available to speak to us, that in a

statement sent three last week, they set their financial records

did not go back that far. Is that they would be happy to meet with

representatives from the two charities in order to review the

matter. The statement said it was also worth pointing out that the

council had not been contacted with I -- either of the charities or

their legal representatives on this issue. The charities and their

We have tried to pursue it, but you have to come to a point where you

are pursuing �300,000 a year with no guarantee that you're going to

get it. You have to consider the costs and we decided to draw a line.

But we would be able to use the aid money wisely. The council further

clarified that they do not have any further outstanding demands for a

ground rent on the property, and encouraged the charities to contact

the council. Both charities have said they will contact the council

once again, to pursue the issue. We will keep you updated with any

development in the future. A government-appointed watchdog has

called for more transparency over donations to political parties here,

where donors in Northern Ireland are given anonymity. There are

obvious historical reasons why don't Russia may in anonymous.

parties have argued that if their donors were made public that they

may be intimidated or subjected to problems. In the report, the UK

Committee on Standards in Public Life said that transparency on who

funds political parties as a foundation stone in democracy, and

they are not calling for anything immediately but the chair of the

committee, such Christopher Kelly, says voters should be informed as

soon as possible about who funds major parties who make decisions

about things like budgets. recognise the issue on security. We

have not called on immediate to greater transparency,. What we have

suggested is that the Government should set a timetable for moving

back to normality. There is more talk about the old

political chestnut, public funding for political parties. Yes, that

will be welcome news to the politicians potentially. Relations

in Northern Ireland, committee suggest that development grants

which only currently go to the DUP and the SDLP should be extended to

parties who have representation in a place like Stormont, which could

be good news for Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists and the alliance.

More than �150,000 per year is given to the two parties. They

should also get -- there are suggestions they should get a paper

-- pay per vote. People who took out mortgages in

the property boom are being warned they will never get out of negative

equity. Tonight, Jim Fitzpatrick looks at

the property crash and the Nama crash, Ireland's so-called bad bank.

The credit crunch brought a crash of equal measure to the property

boom. And here, there is no sign of an upturn. For the life of

everyone's mortgage, there will be no recover. There will be no

recovery in the lifetime of them. The crash left Irish banks in

particular with huge loans that went back. In an attempt to get

them working again, the Irish government created Nama, buying

loans at a discounted price. His job is to recoup money for the

taxpayer. There will be cases where businesses are not viable, and

there is no point in stepping away from that. It is in no one's

interest to keep them going, because we can't. We have already

spent a lot of money on this, so we should not throw good money after

bad. What is worrying for the local economy is that many businesses who

dabbled in property could go under. They used cash flow from their

companies to fund their deals. Now those loans could kill their

otherwise healthy companies. Companies employing hundreds of

people who are now caught in the Nama web. Nama have to decide what

they are going to do with the land, which is where the fire sale danger

could arise. The could simply try to offload the land and make the

situation far worse. Secondly, what do we do with the business? In many

cases there are real business is attached to these property loans.

The property crash has wide effect be on the value of our homes, and

Nama casts a shadow that stretches beyond developers or across the

economy itself. You can see the reporter at 10:35pm

tonight. At our own footballer is now in

charge of the Fermanagh football team.

Stephen Watson has joined us. Peter Canavan is regarded as

Ulster's best of a Gaelic footballer, and one that every --

He is the school teacher from Tyrone Howe has become Fermanagh's

football headmaster. Peter Canavan says he did his homework before

taking the job. Everything in his career was driven towards bringing

success to his native county. But now the colour of his allegiance is

changing from red to be been. a massive challenge and there is a

lot of work to be done. There is a lot of passion for Gaelic football

in Fermanagh. I am looking forward to the challenge of making things

happen. They were knocked out of last summer's championship by

London, they add in the bottom division of the leak. To change

that, he will have to try to... There has to be a reason to

everything you do, and the best managers they have played under,

they did not do things for the sake of it. I will be taking a simple

approach into management with me. I would like to think that the

players and leaders within the team will buy into that, and they get

the best out of each other. That approach worked well in recent

years, as a player and manager with his club. His first test will come

in January, one of Erne County's matches will be against our own of

all teams, in the making a cup. -- against Tyrone.

Rory McIlroy and Gaiman double our team-mates this week in Ireland's

team at the World Cup of Golf in China. There is a great team

assembled here this week. Some fantastic teams. There are some

quality teams and we will have to play well to contend and have a

chance to win on Sunday afternoon. I'm excited to be playing alongside

this man. He is in great form. I have got myself a decent pardner! -

- partner. The death of Gaelic footballer Cormac McAnallen and

Ireland under 19 rugby captain John McCall in 2004 raise awareness of

sudden cardiac death, and the need for hard defibrillators at sporting

events. The teenager Christopher made Neil's life was saved after he

collapsed during a game last year. He says he owes his life because a

defibrillator was made available. Last summer, I collapsed at a

football match in the Milk Cup. I have got a defibrillator fitted in

my chest subsequently. We're trying to raise awareness. These devices

are critical and increasing the survival rate in young cardiac

victims. If you have someone that goes into cardiac arrest, if you

can shock them within the first minute, there is a 90% survival

rate. For every minute afterwards, the percentage drops by 10%.

Welcome news for the people who come to the Milk Cup from all over

the world. Hopefully never will -- nothing will happen in the future,

Good news for Special Olympics Ulster. Five government departments

have come together to agree a four year funding package worth over �2

million. More on that later at 10:25pm.

I hope you managed to enjoy the sunshine today. But it is all going

to change over the next few days. We have already have -- we already

have the cloud on the Atlantic, which is breaking into Park's over

the West, bringing drizzle. It will be called at first under the clear

skies, but as the cloud builds the temperatures will get better by

morning. We will avoid the frosty start that we saw during the first

start of the morning. The rain is going to push into all the areas as

we move into Wednesday. It will also be windier. The rain will be

focused in the western areas. It will slowly pushes we East, as we

move into the morning. In parts of County Down it could be evening

until the rain reaches here. Further west and north, the rain

makes its presence known, and some of it will be heavy at times.

Temperatures will get up to around 12 degrees but it will feel colder

as a result of the blustery winds. The south-east corner could stay

dry until later on in the evening, but for the rest of us it will be a

wet end to the day. The rain will linger, and because of the cloud

tomorrow it will be a much milder night. We should see temperatures

of around three degrees at this time of year, but they will be 10,

which is pretty good. The winds will become much stronger over the

weekend, with gale-force gusts. There may be a hint of sunshine on

Thursday. During the second part of the day, the rain will push in,

giving us we tend to thirsty. More unsettled weather on Friday and