:00:14. > :00:18.The headlines this Wednesday evening:
:00:19. > :00:21.I'm in London, where tensions over welfare reform overshadowed talks
:00:22. > :00:27.between David Cameron and the First and Deputy First Ministers.
:00:28. > :00:29.Inter-party talks get underway at Stormont with disagreement
:00:30. > :00:31.about whether the negotiators should deal with the
:00:32. > :00:37.The family of a girl with anorexia criticise the lack of privacy in our
:00:38. > :00:51.I've felt like I had been imprisoned and not allowed to go anywhere, I
:00:52. > :00:56.was considered ostracised, I could not walk anywhere by myself.
:00:57. > :00:58.A damning report finds our health regulator ignored
:00:59. > :01:02.warnings that elderly people in a Carrickfergus nursing home were at
:01:03. > :01:17.You are doing a really good job. I love you, ma'am.
:01:18. > :01:19.We catch up with the grandmother who's alive thanks
:01:20. > :01:23.And the tides are turning against us weather-wise.
:01:24. > :01:33.It's looking more unsettled now but not wet all the time.
:01:34. > :01:36.There have been political talks at Westminister and Stormont today
:01:37. > :01:39.but little sign of optimism over potential progress.
:01:40. > :01:41.The Prime Minister met the First and Deputy First Ministers
:01:42. > :01:48.This picture was released a short time ago by the Government.
:01:49. > :01:51.Talks in London were overshadowed by more arguments over if,
:01:52. > :01:55.how and when Welfare Reform should be implemented.
:01:56. > :01:58.David Cameron has been pushing for more movement.
:01:59. > :02:01.The Prime Minister also had a separate meeting with Sinn Fein,
:02:02. > :02:06.his first ever with Sinn Fein as a party since he took office.
:02:07. > :02:08.At Stormont, the Executive parties concentrated on issues unresolved
:02:09. > :02:14.We'll hear from our political editor there in a moment.
:02:15. > :02:19.First, our political correspondent, Martina Purdy, is at Westminster.
:02:20. > :02:22.The row over welfare reform and how much it is costing the Northern
:02:23. > :02:35.It has already cost more than 100 made pounds and the longer this
:02:36. > :02:41.deadlock was on, the more money and will cost. -- ?100 million. The
:02:42. > :02:44.government position is that if Northern Ireland once the old
:02:45. > :02:49.welfare system, the more expensive one, it can pay for it. London has
:02:50. > :02:54.made concessions to Northern Ireland and other regions do not benefit
:02:55. > :02:56.from and after the meeting, Peter Robinson, whose party is in favour
:02:57. > :03:04.of and lamenting reforms, blamed Sinn Fein for what he called head in
:03:05. > :03:07.the sand politics. It is impossible for any intelligent person not to
:03:08. > :03:14.know what the consequences of their actions are. I find it an outrage
:03:15. > :03:19.that people would allow the Northern Ireland community to suffer as the
:03:20. > :03:23.result of a failure to have the courage to take a decision they know
:03:24. > :03:31.is necessary. What did Sinn Fein say? At the news conference, Gerry
:03:32. > :03:34.Adams said he was making no apologies and the party was standing
:03:35. > :03:39.up for the vulnerable and this was about right wing Tory cuts and
:03:40. > :03:44.Martin McGuinness said that is where the problem lay, with London. We are
:03:45. > :03:50.not in conflict with Peter Robinson or the DUP on the issue of welfare.
:03:51. > :03:55.We are in conflict with the British government and we said that David
:03:56. > :03:59.Cameron during the meeting and I reminded him that I have been
:04:00. > :04:01.involved in putting together two programmes from government, firstly
:04:02. > :04:08.with Ian Paisley and then Peter Robinson, where none of this was
:04:09. > :04:12.discussed. What about the wider talks Sinn Fein had with the Prime
:04:13. > :04:17.Minister? Did Gerry Adams get any satisfaction? Gerry Adams said it
:04:18. > :04:22.was useful and a good meeting and he had waited four years to be welcomed
:04:23. > :04:26.to Downing Street but at the last minute, he ended up at the House of
:04:27. > :04:32.Commons and Downing Street said the change of venue was due to the fact
:04:33. > :04:35.that David Cameron had to vote so Sinn Fein was deprived of what it
:04:36. > :04:40.thought was a very attractive photocall. Gerry Adams has been very
:04:41. > :04:45.frustrated with London, saying that David Cameron has been disconnected
:04:46. > :04:49.from the process and that is causing problems and he recently said he has
:04:50. > :04:50.detected a change of attitude and he welcomed the fact the Prime
:04:51. > :04:55.detected a change of attitude and he is willing to make the party again
:04:56. > :04:58.in the autumn. Thank you. -- meet the party.
:04:59. > :05:03.Whilst Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness were in London, their
:05:04. > :05:22.There is one element missing? Yes, Richard Haass, these are the Haass
:05:23. > :05:27.talks without him. He says he will remain uninterested observer but has
:05:28. > :05:30.ruled out any return. The job of facilitating these talks has been
:05:31. > :05:32.taken on by a civil servant, Paul Sweeney, the most senior in the
:05:33. > :05:41.department. And because of that, Sweeney, the most senior in the
:05:42. > :05:42.is the missing element. He cannot really take the place of an
:05:43. > :05:46.independent chairperson really take the place of an
:05:47. > :05:49.discussions. Unionists have made no secret of the fact they want parades
:05:50. > :05:54.to be the priority but others do not agree? Unionists have already talked
:05:55. > :05:59.about decoupling parades from the other issues, Alliance said that
:06:00. > :06:02.would be an insult to the victims who want to see progress on the past
:06:03. > :06:08.but they got specific today, the Ulster unionists saying they should
:06:09. > :06:13.get into the nitty-gritty of issues like watch it happen on the 12th of
:06:14. > :06:18.July by the Ardoyne shops. Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly said there was no
:06:19. > :06:22.way they would get into that kind of issue because that is the job of the
:06:23. > :06:26.Parades Commission. Could those commission rulings impact on these
:06:27. > :06:30.talks? You get a sense that not only do they provide the backdrop to
:06:31. > :06:35.these talks, but as far as unionists are concerned, they provide the
:06:36. > :06:39.foreground. We heard from the DUP Minister Jonathan Bell, who said
:06:40. > :06:44.that nationalists needed to show more tolerance and respect for
:06:45. > :06:49.parades and he felt that the success of these negotiations depended to a
:06:50. > :06:53.large degree on that. The other parties say there is more than one
:06:54. > :06:56.issue and even if they did make progress on parades, that would be
:06:57. > :06:59.in terms of a structure to replace the Parades Commission one year
:07:00. > :07:01.hence and it will not affect anything in the short term. Thank
:07:02. > :07:03.you. Would you know how to do this
:07:04. > :07:07.in an emergency? We hear from one woman whose
:07:08. > :07:19.life was saved by her family. Can you imagine being 14 years old,
:07:20. > :07:22.with an eating disorder and being watched 24/7, including in the
:07:23. > :07:24.toilet and shower while you're in That's the shocking reality
:07:25. > :07:30.in our only child Management at Beechcroft in
:07:31. > :07:36.South Belfast say they can't guarantee same-sex nurses to watch
:07:37. > :07:41.their patients. Tonight's story revolves
:07:42. > :07:44.around Aoife Boyle. She was so unhappy with how
:07:45. > :07:47.she was treated in Beechcroft They say the drugs she was
:07:48. > :07:51.on were increased without anyone And her parents weren't told
:07:52. > :07:54.about key parts Beechcroft say they're satisfied
:07:55. > :08:00.that all of the children in the unit are cared for in
:08:01. > :08:02.a safe and effective environment. I spent a morning with the Boyle
:08:03. > :08:05.family and heard Aoife read from a diary she kept
:08:06. > :08:21.when she was in the unit. Having someone in your face every
:08:22. > :08:25.five minutes, saying, drink this. They don't know how to treat people
:08:26. > :08:43.going through this and I felt no support or help. I hated every
:08:44. > :08:47.minute of it, I felt like I was imprisoned. And not allowed to go
:08:48. > :09:03.anywhere. That was considered exercise. I was not allowed to walk
:09:04. > :09:09.anywhere by myself. Her prince say they felt excluded right from day
:09:10. > :09:15.one. All of what we saw at Beachcroft did absolutely nothing
:09:16. > :09:20.positive to address the problem. The problem was not the physical side of
:09:21. > :09:22.eating, that was partially it, but it was more psychological problems
:09:23. > :09:28.and in that week at Beachcroft, to my knowledge, she received no signal
:09:29. > :09:34.to go help whatsoever. -- psychological. As a result, she had
:09:35. > :09:39.to go to the City Hospital to be fed for almost four weeks. It was a
:09:40. > :09:44.time, her antidepressant was increased by 100% and we were not
:09:45. > :09:52.told about that. We were not informed. Somebody should have
:09:53. > :09:57.phoned us or told us, for whatever reason, we have to increase her
:09:58. > :10:02.antidepressant. But nobody ever told us. I find out by looking at her
:10:03. > :10:08.chart. The family had other concerns. By the constant one-to-one
:10:09. > :10:12.supervision of their daughter. It is little wonder that she did not want
:10:13. > :10:18.to eat. She didn't sleep at all. But only because of the drugs but
:10:19. > :10:23.because she had a watch it effectively looking at 24 a day. At
:10:24. > :10:28.the bottom of bed, as was getting undressed, on the shower, in the
:10:29. > :10:34.toilet, she constantly have somebody looking at, either a female or male
:10:35. > :10:38.support staff. Beachcroft opened four years ago to meet the demand
:10:39. > :10:42.for mental health services for young people. Other families have
:10:43. > :10:44.complained about the start of treatment for eating disorders, and
:10:45. > :10:49.the children services manager admits they cannot guarantee same-sex
:10:50. > :10:54.observers. Young boys would prefer to have a female and in terms of who
:10:55. > :10:59.is helping them, some people strike a particular relationship with staff
:11:00. > :11:02.and they feel more comfortable but all of the staff are trained to
:11:03. > :11:07.deliver that. In a safe and dignified way. In the end, the
:11:08. > :11:11.family discharged from hospital and are treating her at all. They're
:11:12. > :11:18.paying for private help. Something that either also believes she needs.
:11:19. > :11:22.This is all you think about constantly. Even if there is
:11:23. > :11:25.something coming up, like going out with your friends or something
:11:26. > :11:30.happening with the family, but as always in your head and you either
:11:31. > :11:36.wake up with a good or bad day. You don't start of good and end up in a
:11:37. > :11:42.bad day. It is good or bad. Most of the time, it is bad.
:11:43. > :11:46.And you can join the debate about this story on our Facebook page.
:11:47. > :11:49.Elderly people going without food and not being kept hydrated.
:11:50. > :11:52.Those were allegations made to BBC Newsline by a whistleblower
:11:53. > :11:57.Today, they led to official criticism of the watchdog body
:11:58. > :12:01.that's meant to carry out inspections across Northern Ireland.
:12:02. > :12:04.The whistleblower's complaints concerned Cherry Tree Nursing Home.
:12:05. > :12:06.Now the independent watchdog body, the Regulation and Quality
:12:07. > :12:43.Improvement Authority, has been told it should have acted sooner.
:12:44. > :12:50.Nine years on and review confirms the regulators should have missed
:12:51. > :12:54.nationalist. I need to show my face again, not remain anonymous, my face
:12:55. > :12:59.to be shown. And for me to be able to work in Mike caring profession
:13:00. > :13:10.again. What does the Minister need to look? I think he needs to assist
:13:11. > :13:15.me in helping me to lift my guiding force. The review focused on the
:13:16. > :13:18.response. In its report,
:13:19. > :13:20.the review team said the regulator should have taken a more rigorous
:13:21. > :13:23.approach to enforcing care And that, despite repeated
:13:24. > :13:26.and multiple failings at the home, enforcement action was taken on just
:13:27. > :13:29.three occasions in eight years. The team said the RQIA's inspection
:13:30. > :13:33.reports gave little assurance that what was wrong at Cherry Tree had
:13:34. > :13:37.been properly addressed. In their recommendations,
:13:38. > :13:40.the report?s authors said the RQIA should review its enforcement policy
:13:41. > :13:45.for nursing homes like Cherry Tree. That it could consider
:13:46. > :13:48.the recruitment of lay assessors with care home backgrounds to take
:13:49. > :13:52.part in inspections. And that there should be greater
:13:53. > :13:54.support and protection The BBC's investigations on nursing
:13:55. > :14:00.homes has triggered the question - is the regulator tough enough
:14:01. > :14:13.on those who breach regulations? I do not want people to be
:14:14. > :14:16.frightened of the RQIA but I want people to be focused on the
:14:17. > :14:21.improvement journey. And I want people to be respectful of the
:14:22. > :14:25.standards and the radiation is and to abide by those standards. Should
:14:26. > :14:28.people not be frightened in order for them to be acting and managing
:14:29. > :14:34.their home better? Theory that did not happen here? I think you can
:14:35. > :14:39.drive improvement through a respectful relationship or through
:14:40. > :14:40.willing the big stick. We have to do both.
:14:41. > :14:45.But the local watchdog says patient safety is being put at risk.
:14:46. > :14:52.The RQIA's main objective is to protect patients by ensuring there
:14:53. > :14:56.is improvement and if there is not enough, they should step in and take
:14:57. > :15:00.Last year, Elizabeth Calvert told the BBC how she found her
:15:01. > :15:07.She said families shouldn't have had to wait this long for answers.
:15:08. > :15:12.It has been going on for nine years and I look forward to things
:15:13. > :15:18.improving in these homes. They need to improve because all people
:15:19. > :15:21.deserve a kinder life at the end of their lives.
:15:22. > :15:23.The owners of Cherry Tree said that while the
:15:24. > :15:26.report's recommendations do not deal with Cherry Tree House specifically,
:15:27. > :15:33.the report provides useful insight into our own shortcomings.
:15:34. > :15:38.A woman accused of murdering her baby son in Belfast last March will
:15:39. > :15:43.be remanded at a mental health facility. Belfast Magistrates Court
:15:44. > :15:46.heard that a psychiatric report on a 30-year-old has been completed and
:15:47. > :15:50.she will remain in the unit as a patient. The woman cannot be
:15:51. > :15:55.identified because of claims it would increase the risk of taking
:15:56. > :15:56.her own life. Pressed challenge to reporting restrictions will be heard
:15:57. > :15:59.next month. Five since Saturday and 40
:16:00. > :16:01.in the last six months. That's the number of people
:16:02. > :16:04.who have died on our roads. The figures are now going
:16:05. > :16:06.up instead of down. And a fifth of those killed
:16:07. > :16:11.this year were on motorbikes. No serious injuries,
:16:12. > :16:19.as far as we know. But it has been a different
:16:20. > :16:23.story over the past four days. Two men - the driver of a car and a
:16:24. > :16:27.motorcyclist - were killed in this one close to a filling station on
:16:28. > :16:32.the Milltown Road yesterday evening. Their deaths came after a woman was
:16:33. > :16:35.killed in Londonderry in the morning and two men were killed in separate
:16:36. > :16:49.crashes on Monday and Saturday. My thoughts and prayers are with the
:16:50. > :16:54.families of those lost over recent days and indeed those lost over
:16:55. > :16:57.recent weeks and months. We have had a horrendous start to the year in
:16:58. > :17:00.terms of deaths on the roads and it is obvious that more needs to be
:17:01. > :17:03.done. And here's why it's been such
:17:04. > :17:05.a bad year. Already,
:17:06. > :17:07.the figures show that 40 people have During the same time last year,
:17:08. > :17:10.that figure was 27. What the figures don't explain is
:17:11. > :17:17.why things have gone Almost two years ago I did
:17:18. > :17:22.a special series for BBC Newsline looking at what we were doing here
:17:23. > :17:26.to get the number of road deaths down to its lowest-ever figure
:17:27. > :17:31.since records began. Now the question has to be asked -
:17:32. > :17:46.what are we doing wrong? There is not one particular point
:17:47. > :17:50.that I can say is specifically this. Speaking to members of the
:17:51. > :17:53.investigation unit, they are specialised within road policing and
:17:54. > :18:00.investigate all fatal road collisions, they tell me that at the
:18:01. > :18:03.seams and during examinations with forensics scientists, speed is the
:18:04. > :18:06.major factor. There has also been
:18:07. > :18:08.a big increase in the number of motorbike riders killed - eight
:18:09. > :18:11.so far this year, compared to one Neville Kilpatrick teaches both
:18:12. > :18:16.car users and bikers how to drive. What I teach
:18:17. > :18:22.when I have pupils out on the road So if they see a hazard like a
:18:23. > :18:28.vehicle at a junction, if they can't make eye contact then obviously
:18:29. > :18:31.the driver may not have seen them. And to get themselves more
:18:32. > :18:33.into a position where they will be seen, so maybe more to the centre
:18:34. > :18:36.of the road. The police say they will be
:18:37. > :18:38.increasing their visible presence on the roads to get
:18:39. > :18:45.the safety message out. The Commonwealth sport
:18:46. > :19:00.that has no age limits. If someone has a heart attack,
:19:01. > :19:02.getting immediate CPR will double But do you know how to
:19:03. > :19:07.carry out life-saving chest Today, the Department of Health
:19:08. > :19:13.launched a drive to train This evening, we hear how one
:19:14. > :19:18.woman's life was saved thanks to the bravery and quick thinking
:19:19. > :19:21.of her daughter and grandson. And in July last year,
:19:22. > :19:41.it saved Sheila Osbourne's. I put the kettle on and I reached
:19:42. > :19:48.into the cupboard for the tea bags and was only one left. I turned
:19:49. > :19:51.around to say this and that was it. That is all I can remember.
:19:52. > :19:58.Her daughter, Pauline, and grandson, Eoin, had to try to keep her alive.
:19:59. > :20:08.I thought she had fainted, she was on her way down, I did not catch.
:20:09. > :20:17.She had the floor. Her lips were going blue, purple. And a strange
:20:18. > :20:20.noise, it was not normal. So I realised that something else had to
:20:21. > :20:28.be done. We had to telephone the ambulance. I called and the
:20:29. > :20:35.operator, called David, said, start doing CPR. My mum started doing CPR
:20:36. > :20:40.on my granny. This is an edited recording of the actual call that
:20:41. > :20:49.followed. You are doing a really good job. Come on. Mum, I love you.
:20:50. > :20:57.You know that? There will be a numberless very shortly. Keep going.
:20:58. > :21:13.All right? Mummy? You are doing a good job. One, two, three... I was
:21:14. > :21:21.scared but anxious as well. Because if someone dies, you are not going
:21:22. > :21:24.to see them again. And I was pretty young, I was nine. You are worrying?
:21:25. > :21:28.Yes. In Sheila's case there's no doubt
:21:29. > :21:39.that without the use of CPR, For them to have the courage to
:21:40. > :21:45.telephone the ambulance and for Pauline to keep her mind straight
:21:46. > :21:50.and concentrate on what had to be done, I think she is amazing.
:21:51. > :21:52.Almost a year since their grandmother?s heart attack, this is
:21:53. > :21:55.a family still coming to terms with what happened, but grateful that CPR
:21:56. > :22:10.50 new jobs have been created in Cookstown by a firm that
:22:11. > :22:12.manufactures specialist equipment for the construction industry.
:22:13. > :22:17.CDE Global says the ?3 million investment will help
:22:18. > :22:25.The Economy Minister welcomed the news.
:22:26. > :22:33.This is a local firm using local expertise but very much with a
:22:34. > :22:37.global outreach. And for different sectors in seven regions of the
:22:38. > :22:39.world. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to grow the economy
:22:40. > :22:42.here. To look at the export market and bring excellence into those
:22:43. > :22:44.markets. There's less than one month to
:22:45. > :22:47.go to the Commonwealth Games. And tonight we continue our
:22:48. > :22:49.countdown to Glasgow 2014, looking at a sport the Northern Ireland team
:22:50. > :22:52.traditionally fares very well in. That's because the team includes
:22:53. > :22:58.a man who has won more medals than any other for his country,
:22:59. > :23:12.as Nial Foster reports. with four gold medals and four
:23:13. > :23:21.bronze medals, David Calvert is Mr Commonwealth Games. And at the age
:23:22. > :23:25.of 64, he is back for Glasgow. I have been doing this for a very long
:23:26. > :23:26.time so I enjoy the sport, the competition and the social side is
:23:27. > :23:31.important. We end up competition and the social side is
:23:32. > :23:33.and against the same people in a lot of the time for years and even
:23:34. > :23:40.and against the same people in a lot decades. He is joined by 22-year-old
:23:41. > :23:47.Jack Alexander, forming an unlikely partnership. With Jack, he is almost
:23:48. > :23:54.one third of my age so this is an unusual combination. We have been
:23:55. > :23:58.training together to work out as a team what we can do. I would like to
:23:59. > :24:03.believe that we will be competitive, in the pairs and as individuals. I
:24:04. > :24:09.think we work very well together. We are both very different, as much as
:24:10. > :24:13.we love the same sport. I hope that we can turn up on the day and
:24:14. > :24:17.perform as well as we have done. If the pressure is on, I can still
:24:18. > :24:24.cope. I think we will work well. While Jack is his first Commonwealth
:24:25. > :24:28.Games, it will be covered's 10th. And he has hopes of adding more
:24:29. > :24:32.medals to his collection. Having achieved that takes away some
:24:33. > :24:38.pressure but the expectation is there so this is a mix. Any time it
:24:39. > :24:40.happens, it is marvellous, a great experience and I would love to do it
:24:41. > :24:45.again. The aim is gold once again. Ten Commonwealth Games -
:24:46. > :25:00.an amazing achievement in itself. We have had seven months in a row
:25:01. > :25:05.with temperatures above average. July has a warm start and even
:25:06. > :25:09.though we have had more cloud, more of a breeze today, temperatures are
:25:10. > :25:16.currently still sitting at 21 degrees in parts of the south-east.
:25:17. > :25:19.Different today, the cloud paddling in across many parts of Scotland and
:25:20. > :25:22.Ireland and we have had some rain running in as well and some of that
:25:23. > :25:28.remind this evening. Just edging eastwards. As it does, it is
:25:29. > :25:32.weakening and thinning so there will be part of the South and East that
:25:33. > :25:37.will see none of that. Once it does clearly, the breeze eases dine and
:25:38. > :25:43.the rest of the light is dry and very mild. Temperatures no lower
:25:44. > :25:47.than ten or 11. Into tomorrow, it looks like we will see a fair amount
:25:48. > :25:50.of dry weather for a good part of the day, but there will still be
:25:51. > :25:57.some cloud. That does not mean any bright spells -- there will not be
:25:58. > :26:00.bright spells, in the morning we shall see brightness across County
:26:01. > :26:06.Durham, Armagh and the South. The cloud will gather, or cloud plans
:26:07. > :26:09.sunshine and we're looking at cloudy skies developing the sunshine but
:26:10. > :26:14.for the middle part of the afternoon it should be largely dry across the
:26:15. > :26:16.south-east. Once again, the cloud will thicken further towards the
:26:17. > :26:21.West. You will see more rain starting to nudge in their through
:26:22. > :26:25.the latter part of the afternoon, although the rain is likely to be
:26:26. > :26:30.quite patchy. Temperatures tomorrow at 17 or 19 degrees, not bad and not
:26:31. > :26:35.much of a breeze. It will not despite that cloud. That patchy rain
:26:36. > :26:40.tomorrow evening moves eastwards and then clears away and we briefly get
:26:41. > :26:44.a dry slot through tomorrow night but that will not last. More
:26:45. > :26:48.persistent rain will move into the North and West and that reason is
:26:49. > :26:52.picking up. That sets the scene for Friday, pretty miserable for a good
:26:53. > :26:56.part of the day and heavy, persistent rain although it does
:26:57. > :27:01.look like it shall brighten up later in the day. It will also turn
:27:02. > :27:05.fresher. That event on Friday is a weather front bringing that wet,
:27:06. > :27:09.windy weather and low pressure follows behind so although it does
:27:10. > :27:18.brighten up, there will be heavy showers. The headline stash tensions
:27:19. > :27:20.over welfare reform have overshadowed talks between David
:27:21. > :27:24.Cameron Andy First and Deputy First Ministers in London. And a damning
:27:25. > :27:27.report has fine but our health regular at ignored warnings and
:27:28. > :27:29.elderly people in the Carrickfergus nursing home were at risk.
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:27:34. > :27:55.One, two, three, four, here they come.
:27:56. > :27:58.Patton strikes, it's there! Oh, what a goal!
:27:59. > :28:06.Sturridge is in the middle. Good ball from Rooney.