:00:00. > :00:18.they've still got a long way to go. That's all from us.
:00:19. > :00:22.Good evening. People with eating disorders have claimed that the
:00:23. > :00:26.treatment they have received here has been second rate. One woman has
:00:27. > :00:28.told BBC Newsline that she received electric shock treatment for
:00:29. > :00:31.depression associated with her illness. More than 300 adults and
:00:32. > :00:33.109 children were treated for eating disorders here last year, as Tara
:00:34. > :00:38.Mills reports. Two
:00:39. > :00:44.Amanda Gibson has spent 20 years living with bulimia, 18 months ago
:00:45. > :00:49.she decided she had enough and decided to get treatment. She spent
:00:50. > :00:53.three months in a treatment hospital. Amanda and her sister both
:00:54. > :01:02.say they were surprised that the treatment she was given. Most days I
:01:03. > :01:04.just sat on the bed or walked around the Ward, because there was not much
:01:05. > :01:10.to do. Next, she was given electric shock
:01:11. > :01:14.therapy, or ECT, 12 sessions in six weeks.
:01:15. > :01:18.My memory was very bad. I had forgotten things like where I
:01:19. > :01:23.lived, I had to ask my mum when I lived, I forgot my last house and
:01:24. > :01:26.how old I am. There are concerns about children
:01:27. > :01:30.with eating disorders. One father whose daughter is now being treated
:01:31. > :01:35.in London told us the care she received at the Beachcroft unit in
:01:36. > :01:40.south Belfast is completely different than the regime in
:01:41. > :01:45.England. A complete ban on any kind of exercise, any kind of fresh air,
:01:46. > :01:52.any kind of home visit. She was really kept inside for two
:01:53. > :01:54.or three months. The health and social care board say
:01:55. > :01:58.they are working to improve the service. Even if we had a local
:01:59. > :02:04.specialist unit we may still have to send people across the water because
:02:05. > :02:08.of those unique and conflict situations, but I accept it would be
:02:09. > :02:11.ideal if we had in due course a regional specialist unit and we are
:02:12. > :02:16.thinking about it. Families will hope that will happen
:02:17. > :02:20.sooner rather than later. Two men - including a soldier in the
:02:21. > :02:24.Royal Irish Regiment - who were charged with murder - have admitted
:02:25. > :02:26.unlawfully killing a man in Armagh. Lee Smyth never regained
:02:27. > :02:34.consciousness after the attack four years ago. Gordon Adair reports.
:02:35. > :02:47.23-year-old soldier Michael Wilson, who is from the game and Gareth
:02:48. > :02:53.McAuley from -- Gareth McKinney from Portadown were originally charged in
:02:54. > :02:57.2010. The pair beat Lee Smyth that a police officer described him as
:02:58. > :03:00.unrecognisable. Lee Smyth never regained consciousness, spending two
:03:01. > :03:04.years in a nursing home before his life-support machine was switched
:03:05. > :03:09.off. Today as the trial here was about to go into its second day,
:03:10. > :03:13.lawyers for the two men asked for them to be rearranged. Again, they
:03:14. > :03:18.pleaded not guilty to murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
:03:19. > :03:23.Prosecuting lawyer said that in the interests of justice he would accept
:03:24. > :03:27.their plea to the lesser charge. The judge then instructed the jury here
:03:28. > :03:30.to find them not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by way of
:03:31. > :03:37.confession. They will be sentenced at a later date.
:03:38. > :03:40.The Ulster Unionist minister Danny Kennedy says his party wants Richard
:03:41. > :03:42.Haass to clarify his remarks that violence could re-emerge in Northern
:03:43. > :03:45.Ireland. Speaking in Washington, Mr Kennedy
:03:46. > :03:48.said that they wanted to know how the former US diplomat, who chaired
:03:49. > :03:57.months of talks on parading, flags and the past, had reached that
:03:58. > :04:01.conclusion. We were interested in that comment,
:04:02. > :04:06.and clearly I would like to perhaps pursue with Dr Haass who made that
:04:07. > :04:11.comment to him, or whether or not he had gained that by his own
:04:12. > :04:15.instincts, but certainly if Republicans were in some way trying
:04:16. > :04:19.to bully either Dr Haass or others involved in that process by using
:04:20. > :04:23.that thinly veiled threat, I think that is a huge mistake.
:04:24. > :04:27.It has been revealed that the final bill for hearing loss claims by
:04:28. > :04:29.former RUC officers could be almost ?250 million.
:04:30. > :04:34.More than ?135 million has already been paid-out to settle over 8,500
:04:35. > :04:35.claims. Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Vincent Kearney,
:04:36. > :04:46.reports. The RUC knew from the mid-1960s that
:04:47. > :04:53.officers engaged in firearms training should have been provided
:04:54. > :04:58.with proper ear protection. But they were not issued with adequate
:04:59. > :05:02.equipment like this for 30 years. It was a costly mistake. The BBC
:05:03. > :05:09.revealed two months ago that up to the end of November last year more
:05:10. > :05:14.than ?135 million was paid out to settle hearing loss claims by over
:05:15. > :05:18.8500 former police officers. More than 2000 claims have still to be
:05:19. > :05:23.settled and David Ford has revealed the estimated cost of doing so over
:05:24. > :05:27.the next five years. The bill for the next two years will be over 27
:05:28. > :05:32.million and more than 49 million during the following three. The
:05:33. > :05:39.total estimated five-year cost is more than ?103 million. That will
:05:40. > :05:46.bring total payments to just under ?239 million with nearly half on
:05:47. > :05:50.legal fees. Legal sources say they expect a significant numbers of new
:05:51. > :05:54.claims to be lodged. The Justice Minister was questioned on the issue
:05:55. > :05:57.in the Assembly yesterday. Is the Minister aware of a growing level of
:05:58. > :06:02.frustration at the cost of this to the public purse?
:06:03. > :06:06.It is an operational issue for the chief constable administered by the
:06:07. > :06:08.PSNI and not their apartment of justice.
:06:09. > :06:13.As it is an operational issue responsibility lies with the chief
:06:14. > :06:16.constable. More than 20,000 RUC officers are
:06:17. > :06:23.believed to have undergone firearms training using inadequate ear
:06:24. > :06:28.protection, and so far more than 11,000 have lodged claims. These
:06:29. > :06:32.compensation payments come on top of the redundancy scheme for police
:06:33. > :06:36.officers that cost around ?500 million.
:06:37. > :06:38.That means the combined bill for compensating officers for early
:06:39. > :06:43.retirement and hearing loss could be around 750 million.
:06:44. > :06:46.A soldier has been remanded in custody charged with murdering a
:06:47. > :06:48.Royal Irish Regiment soldier at his base in England. Lance Corporal
:06:49. > :06:51.Richard Farrell appeared in court this morning, accused of killing
:06:52. > :06:57.Corporal Geoffrey McNeill, from Ballymoney, at the weekend. The
:06:58. > :07:03.32-year-old was found dead at Clive Barracks in Shropshire on Saturday.
:07:04. > :07:07.The mental health charity that has been told it has to leave the coffee
:07:08. > :07:11.shop it runs at Hillsbrough Castle, is refusing to move. Campaigners
:07:12. > :07:18.trying to save the coffee shop, held a small protest outside the castle
:07:19. > :07:21.earlier today. Praxis says it's spent four hundred thousand pounds
:07:22. > :07:24.developing the garden and coffee shop, but the NIO has turned down a
:07:25. > :07:28.request for compensation. The running of the Castle is being taken
:07:29. > :07:31.over by Historic Royal Palaces who want to re-develop the grounds in a
:07:32. > :07:33.bid to increase visitor numbers. However the charity says it has
:07:34. > :07:36."nowhere to go". The Secretary of State has said that
:07:37. > :07:39.she really wants is to leave within four weeks, and we have said to her
:07:40. > :07:45.that we have absolutely no matter moved to. We have also said to her
:07:46. > :07:48.that the 16 learning disabled people who depend on this site for their
:07:49. > :07:51.jobs are very distressed at this point in time.
:07:52. > :07:55.In a statement, the NIO and Historic Royal Palaces said that Praxis had
:07:56. > :07:59.more than a year's notice that they would have to move and that the
:08:00. > :08:04.terms of its licence made clear that it could not be compensated.
:08:05. > :08:09.And now for a look ahead to some of our news programming tomorrow.
:08:10. > :08:12.Figures show one in ten adolescents here self harms and Good Morning
:08:13. > :08:17.Ulster hears from two people about why they do it, their efforts to
:08:18. > :08:21.stop and who try to help them. That's from 6:30pm tomorrow.
:08:22. > :08:30.And now on to the weather forecast with Geoff Maskell.
:08:31. > :08:37.Wasn't that a fantastic day? Tomorrow is promising to be almost
:08:38. > :08:49.as good. Clear skies this evening mean temperature dropped off sharply
:08:50. > :08:54.tonight so -- then the cloud cover later on in the night. Tomorrow is
:08:55. > :08:57.looking not bad day, dry and mild everywhere but we have a little more
:08:58. > :09:02.cloud around than today. Still, it will not be bad, plenty of bright
:09:03. > :09:06.spells breaking through and temperatures up to the mid-teens.
:09:07. > :09:10.That is really reflected across the UK and Ireland, only the West coast
:09:11. > :09:14.of Scotland missing out. They are getting strong winds and breezes.
:09:15. > :09:18.Elsewhere the temperature is looking really respectable for this time of
:09:19. > :09:22.year, well into double figures. If you are lucky enough to be heading
:09:23. > :09:26.to Cheltenham Festival it will be a nice day, around 12 Celsius with a
:09:27. > :09:31.light breeze. For us in Northern Ireland, not a bad afternoon, plenty
:09:32. > :09:37.of bright and sunny spells at temperatures up around 12 or 13
:09:38. > :09:41.degrees. The high pressure is very much in charge of our weather over
:09:42. > :09:44.the next few days. We have some weak fronts coming through and that means
:09:45. > :09:49.we will have a little bit of rain coming through in the West on
:09:50. > :09:52.Friday, generally not a bad day at all. Towards the weekend, that
:09:53. > :09:59.lovely settled quality looks set to be with us right through until next
:10:00. > :10:01.week. That is it for now, from BBC Newsline, enjoy the rest of your
:10:02. > :10:10.evening. Good night.
:10:11. > :10:16.can't just magically appear from nowhere, out of thin air.
:10:17. > :10:19.Can it? Why have I got the lurking suspicion that we're not
:10:20. > :10:24.looking at a gift here but some kind of message?
:10:25. > :10:27.Brand-new Jonathan Creek continues...