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Good evening. A woman whose mother died in the | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Royal Victoria Hospital says she's speaking out because she doesn't | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
want others to have to go through the same. It follows revelations | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
there were five deaths at the Royal Victoria Hospital's emergency | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
department last year, where the time taken to treat patients may have | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
been a factor in their death. Marie-Louise Connolly reports. Up | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
until now these five cases have just been statistics. But that's now | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
changed after one of the families decided to go public. Speaking to | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the BBC, a woman whose mother died at the RVH emergency department last | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
November says her family feels let down by the NHS. Mum had waited on a | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
chair for about five hours. She had been triaged incorrectly and you | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
know what I mean by that, no one took account of the fact that she | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
was on Warfarin. There was a further delay of an hour-and-a-half. There | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
seemed to be some delay in getting whatever it was she needed for the | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Warfarin reversal and what transpired now was that there was no | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
porter available. According to Colette, things started to go wrong | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
after her 80-year-old mother arrived in the emergency department. While | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
the family accept their mother was elderly, they didn't believe her | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
condition was life threatening. At the family's request, her death was | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
investigated. The results were shocking. And it just seemed to be | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
one error after another that has been accepted by the Royal and they | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
have apologised for their negligence. Did they use those | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
words, they apologised? Yes. Yes, they did. The man responsible for | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
the Belfast health trust accepts the case should have been handled better | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and when asked if this was a resigning matter. He had this to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
say. If I feel I can't deliver added benefit to the population of Belfast | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
and to the patients who depend on us for care that's the time when I | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
would step down. The local Health Service is under major reform. The | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
long-term plan is to care for more people in the community and away | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
from hospital. As a result 400 hospital beds have been cut in four | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
years. We need to be clear. We are in the biggest period of change in | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the last 60 years. We are implementing a huge change in terms | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
of health and social care. Colette's mother suffered several bleeds on | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the brain, waiting to be treated would not have helped her chances of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
recovery. I feel that systems did fail and I feel there wasn't | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
appropriate resources. Recent events brought the emergency care issue to | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
a head. It is crucial happens next is in the interests of patients and | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
not political point scoring. Street says four suspect packages | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
delivered to Army Careers Offices in England bear what it calls the | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
hallmarks of Northern Ireland-related terrorism. The | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
packages were sent to recruitment centres in Oxford, Slough, Kent and | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Brighton. Experts say they could have caused burns or injury but were | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
not life-threatening. Earlier this week letter bombs were sent to | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
offices in Hampshire, Kent and Berkshire. The Prime Minister, David | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Cameron, has chaired a meeting of the COBRA emergencies committee to | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
discuss the threat. Politicians here have condemned the action. This is | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
deplorable activity in the part on of dissident republican terrorists. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
These people are small in number, but they can be lethal in intent. We | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
need to ensure the resources are there. The alertness is there. And | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
that everybody gives whatever help they can in terms of information to | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
the police so they can apprehend these people. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
A man from Newry has been knocked down and killed in San Francisco. He | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
was 34-year-old Paul Lambert from Courtney Hill. A man has been | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
arrested. It is the second tragedy for the family in the last year.His | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
cousin, Kevin Bell, died in a suspected hit-and-run incident in | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
New York in June. A husband and wife accused of the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
manslaughter of a Coleraine pensioner now face murder charges. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
24-year-old Jennifer Toland from County Antrim and 40-year-old Paul | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Toland from The Cedars in Antrim are accused of murdering 72-year-old | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Bertie Acheson in 2012. David Maxwell was at the court in | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Ballymena. Paul Toland covered his face leaving | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
court this morning. He is accused along with his wife, Jennifer | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Toland, of breaking into this house in April 2012. The owner, Bertie | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Acheson, was woken by the sound of breaking glass. He confronted an | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
intruder and died of a heart attack. Money was taken from his disabled | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
wife during the break-in. Until now, both of the accused have faced | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
charges of manslaughter, but today here at Ballymena Magistrates' Court | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
they were returned for trial on the more serious charge of murder. In | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
court to hear proceedings were Bertie Acheson's daughter, | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
son-in-law and other members of the family. Lawyers for the two accused | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
made no submissions at the short hearing. Their clients were both | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
granted continuing bail and they will appear before Belfast Crown | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
Court next month. A former treasurer of the Culmore | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
Church of Ireland parish council has pleaded guilty to stealing ?21,000 | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
from church funds. 27-year-old Lyndsey Brayden from Primidy | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
Crescent in Newbuildings admitted ten charges of stealing the money | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
between March 2010 and October 2011. But she pleaded not guilty to nine | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
other charges of stealing just over ?11,000 during the same period. The | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
defendant, who is eight months pregnant, was accompanied in court | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
by several parishioners and a clergyman. She has been released on | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
bail and the case has been adjourned for two weeks. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
A Stormont department has been accused of obstructing the work of | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the Social Development Committee as it investigates allegations of | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
over-charging on Housing Executive contracts by the maintenance company | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Red Sky. They arose from an investigation by the BBC's Spotlight | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
programme. The committee chairman says senior Department of Social | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Development officials have failed to hand over documents relating to the | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
case. We are being obstructed in that inquiry by senior officials in | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the department. I just think that's not acceptable and in any other | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
world somebody's head would roll for that. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Decisions to cut funding to Irish language groups based in Northern | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Ireland were taken for economic reasons, not political ones | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
according to an All-Ireland Irish language body. Foras na Gael-ge has | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
said it will cut the number of Irish language groups for which it | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
provides core funding across the island of Ireland from 19 to six. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
None of the six successful organisations is currently based in | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Northern Ireland. The group's chief executive says the decisions were | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
purely economic. This was not as I said about north versus south or | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
east versus west. This is about promoting the language and providing | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
better services in a more efficient way to the Irish language | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
communities. It is about getting people out into the community | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
providing services. You can see more on this story after | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
the news in tonight's edition of The View. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
The County Tyrone town of Strabane is staging its first ever gay | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
festival this weekend. The organisers believe it's a good time | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
to highlight the progress being made in the lesbian and gay community | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
although they say discrimination and homophobia are still major issues. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Keiron Tourish reports. What's the story with Simon? Final rehearsals | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
of a new play called So Here We Are. It is one of the highlights of the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
first ever gay festival in Strabane. The author spoke to a wide range of | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
people about their own personal experiences and hopes it will have a | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
positive effect. I would like to hope that Strabane will become more | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
open-minded because as I had these conversations with the members of | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
the LGBTA Society, I heard some were discriminated at school and things | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
like that. I would just like to tackle that head-on. I would like to | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
think it would have a positive effect on the town. The festival | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
will host a series of events in the town from a health awareness | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
programme to social gatherings. The major Gay Pride in places like | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Belfast attract a large following in the summer, but there are no plans | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
at present to stage a parade in the first year of this Strabane | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
festival. Attitudes are changing. They are slowly changing, but we | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
still have to keep doing stuff like this to continue to have attitudes | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
changing to increase visibility outside of the bigger towns and | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
cities as well because there is LGBTA people everywhere in Northern | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Ireland. They are your neighbour. Your friend, your son, your | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
daughter, your mother and father and they are not going away. The | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
organisers hope the festival will be supported by everyone and go from | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
strength strength. They hope to stage it annually. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
We have a message in from the Roads Service regarding icy conditions. | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
They are advising drivers to be more careful. Now the weather with Barra | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Best. For many, it will be a dry, but cold | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
night. Clear skies will develop allowing temperatures to fall close | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
to freezing. There will be a frost tomorrow morning and ice in | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
untreated areas. Tomorrow, we will get off to a promising start, but it | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
won't stay that way. Another storm is coming in. It will be wet, wintry | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
and the winds are going to pick up as well. We have Met Office weather | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
warnings in place for rain mainly for the east and the west and for | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the north, we have a weather warning for snow. If you are travelling | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
tomorrow, snow and ice for the high ground, but there will be icy | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
stretches and wintry flurries for low levels as well. An unpleasant | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
afternoon to come. To begin with, are there will be a cold, crisp and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
bright start to the day before the weather system pushes up from the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
south affecting the Republic at first. Here the main area of concern | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
we have amber warnings in force for strong gusty winds up to 80mph and | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
up to 40 millimetres of rain in an area which has been badly battered | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
by the recent storms. Elsewhere, a series of yellow warnings in force | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
for wind and rain. So quite an unpleasant afternoon to come. The | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
main focus of the snow tomorrow will be in the north and the wes but | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
further east, there maybe some and for the hills and the mountains, but | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
there will be wintry weather to lower levels. Temperatures of four | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
to six Celsius. Saturday will be windy and with showers and we are | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
not expecting much in the more of wintry weather just then. That's it | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
for now. You can keep up-to-date with news online and follow this | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
programme on Facebook and Twitter. From the Newsline team, good night. | :11:31. | :11:31. |