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Good evening. A woman whose mother died in the

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Royal Victoria Hospital says she's speaking out because she doesn't

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want others to have to go through the same. It follows revelations

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there were five deaths at the Royal Victoria Hospital's emergency

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department last year, where the time taken to treat patients may have

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been a factor in their death. Marie-Louise Connolly reports. Up

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until now these five cases have just been statistics. But that's now

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changed after one of the families decided to go public. Speaking to

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the BBC, a woman whose mother died at the RVH emergency department last

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November says her family feels let down by the NHS. Mum had waited on a

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chair for about five hours. She had been triaged incorrectly and you

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know what I mean by that, no one took account of the fact that she

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was on Warfarin. There was a further delay of an hour-and-a-half. There

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seemed to be some delay in getting whatever it was she needed for the

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Warfarin reversal and what transpired now was that there was no

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porter available. According to Colette, things started to go wrong

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after her 80-year-old mother arrived in the emergency department. While

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the family accept their mother was elderly, they didn't believe her

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condition was life threatening. At the family's request, her death was

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investigated. The results were shocking. And it just seemed to be

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one error after another that has been accepted by the Royal and they

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have apologised for their negligence. Did they use those

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words, they apologised? Yes. Yes, they did. The man responsible for

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the Belfast health trust accepts the case should have been handled better

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and when asked if this was a resigning matter. He had this to

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say. If I feel I can't deliver added benefit to the population of Belfast

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and to the patients who depend on us for care that's the time when I

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would step down. The local Health Service is under major reform. The

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long-term plan is to care for more people in the community and away

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from hospital. As a result 400 hospital beds have been cut in four

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years. We need to be clear. We are in the biggest period of change in

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the last 60 years. We are implementing a huge change in terms

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of health and social care. Colette's mother suffered several bleeds on

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the brain, waiting to be treated would not have helped her chances of

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recovery. I feel that systems did fail and I feel there wasn't

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appropriate resources. Recent events brought the emergency care issue to

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a head. It is crucial happens next is in the interests of patients and

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not political point scoring. Street says four suspect packages

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delivered to Army Careers Offices in England bear what it calls the

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hallmarks of Northern Ireland-related terrorism. The

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packages were sent to recruitment centres in Oxford, Slough, Kent and

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Brighton. Experts say they could have caused burns or injury but were

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not life-threatening. Earlier this week letter bombs were sent to

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offices in Hampshire, Kent and Berkshire. The Prime Minister, David

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Cameron, has chaired a meeting of the COBRA emergencies committee to

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discuss the threat. Politicians here have condemned the action. This is

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deplorable activity in the part on of dissident republican terrorists.

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These people are small in number, but they can be lethal in intent. We

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need to ensure the resources are there. The alertness is there. And

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that everybody gives whatever help they can in terms of information to

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the police so they can apprehend these people.

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A man from Newry has been knocked down and killed in San Francisco. He

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was 34-year-old Paul Lambert from Courtney Hill. A man has been

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arrested. It is the second tragedy for the family in the last year.His

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cousin, Kevin Bell, died in a suspected hit-and-run incident in

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New York in June. A husband and wife accused of the

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manslaughter of a Coleraine pensioner now face murder charges.

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24-year-old Jennifer Toland from County Antrim and 40-year-old Paul

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Toland from The Cedars in Antrim are accused of murdering 72-year-old

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Bertie Acheson in 2012. David Maxwell was at the court in

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Ballymena. Paul Toland covered his face leaving

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court this morning. He is accused along with his wife, Jennifer

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Toland, of breaking into this house in April 2012. The owner, Bertie

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Acheson, was woken by the sound of breaking glass. He confronted an

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intruder and died of a heart attack. Money was taken from his disabled

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wife during the break-in. Until now, both of the accused have faced

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charges of manslaughter, but today here at Ballymena Magistrates' Court

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they were returned for trial on the more serious charge of murder. In

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court to hear proceedings were Bertie Acheson's daughter,

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son-in-law and other members of the family. Lawyers for the two accused

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made no submissions at the short hearing. Their clients were both

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granted continuing bail and they will appear before Belfast Crown

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Court next month. A former treasurer of the Culmore

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Church of Ireland parish council has pleaded guilty to stealing ?21,000

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from church funds. 27-year-old Lyndsey Brayden from Primidy

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Crescent in Newbuildings admitted ten charges of stealing the money

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between March 2010 and October 2011. But she pleaded not guilty to nine

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other charges of stealing just over ?11,000 during the same period. The

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defendant, who is eight months pregnant, was accompanied in court

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by several parishioners and a clergyman. She has been released on

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bail and the case has been adjourned for two weeks.

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A Stormont department has been accused of obstructing the work of

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the Social Development Committee as it investigates allegations of

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over-charging on Housing Executive contracts by the maintenance company

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Red Sky. They arose from an investigation by the BBC's Spotlight

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programme. The committee chairman says senior Department of Social

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Development officials have failed to hand over documents relating to the

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case. We are being obstructed in that inquiry by senior officials in

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the department. I just think that's not acceptable and in any other

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world somebody's head would roll for that.

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Decisions to cut funding to Irish language groups based in Northern

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Ireland were taken for economic reasons, not political ones

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according to an All-Ireland Irish language body. Foras na Gael-ge has

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said it will cut the number of Irish language groups for which it

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provides core funding across the island of Ireland from 19 to six.

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None of the six successful organisations is currently based in

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Northern Ireland. The group's chief executive says the decisions were

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purely economic. This was not as I said about north versus south or

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east versus west. This is about promoting the language and providing

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better services in a more efficient way to the Irish language

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communities. It is about getting people out into the community

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providing services. You can see more on this story after

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the news in tonight's edition of The View.

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The County Tyrone town of Strabane is staging its first ever gay

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festival this weekend. The organisers believe it's a good time

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to highlight the progress being made in the lesbian and gay community

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although they say discrimination and homophobia are still major issues.

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Keiron Tourish reports. What's the story with Simon? Final rehearsals

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of a new play called So Here We Are. It is one of the highlights of the

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first ever gay festival in Strabane. The author spoke to a wide range of

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people about their own personal experiences and hopes it will have a

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positive effect. I would like to hope that Strabane will become more

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open-minded because as I had these conversations with the members of

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the LGBTA Society, I heard some were discriminated at school and things

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like that. I would just like to tackle that head-on. I would like to

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think it would have a positive effect on the town. The festival

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will host a series of events in the town from a health awareness

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programme to social gatherings. The major Gay Pride in places like

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Belfast attract a large following in the summer, but there are no plans

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at present to stage a parade in the first year of this Strabane

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festival. Attitudes are changing. They are slowly changing, but we

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still have to keep doing stuff like this to continue to have attitudes

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changing to increase visibility outside of the bigger towns and

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cities as well because there is LGBTA people everywhere in Northern

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Ireland. They are your neighbour. Your friend, your son, your

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daughter, your mother and father and they are not going away. The

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organisers hope the festival will be supported by everyone and go from

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strength strength. They hope to stage it annually.

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We have a message in from the Roads Service regarding icy conditions.

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They are advising drivers to be more careful. Now the weather with Barra

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Best. For many, it will be a dry, but cold

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night. Clear skies will develop allowing temperatures to fall close

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to freezing. There will be a frost tomorrow morning and ice in

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untreated areas. Tomorrow, we will get off to a promising start, but it

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won't stay that way. Another storm is coming in. It will be wet, wintry

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and the winds are going to pick up as well. We have Met Office weather

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warnings in place for rain mainly for the east and the west and for

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the north, we have a weather warning for snow. If you are travelling

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tomorrow, snow and ice for the high ground, but there will be icy

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stretches and wintry flurries for low levels as well. An unpleasant

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afternoon to come. To begin with, are there will be a cold, crisp and

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bright start to the day before the weather system pushes up from the

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south affecting the Republic at first. Here the main area of concern

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we have amber warnings in force for strong gusty winds up to 80mph and

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up to 40 millimetres of rain in an area which has been badly battered

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by the recent storms. Elsewhere, a series of yellow warnings in force

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for wind and rain. So quite an unpleasant afternoon to come. The

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main focus of the snow tomorrow will be in the north and the wes but

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further east, there maybe some and for the hills and the mountains, but

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there will be wintry weather to lower levels. Temperatures of four

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to six Celsius. Saturday will be windy and with showers and we are

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not expecting much in the more of wintry weather just then. That's it

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for now. You can keep up-to-date with news online and follow this

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programme on Facebook and Twitter. From the Newsline team, good night.

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