02/07/2014 BBC Newsline

The headlines this Wednesday evening:

I'm in London, where tensions over welfare reform overshadowed talks

between David Cameron and the First and Deputy First Ministers.

Inter-party talks get underway at Stormont with disagreement

about whether the negotiators should deal with the

The family of a girl with anorexia criticise the lack of privacy in our

I've felt like I had been imprisoned and not allowed to go anywhere, I

was considered ostracised, I could not walk anywhere by myself.

A damning report finds our health regulator ignored

warnings that elderly people in a Carrickfergus nursing home were at

You are doing a really good job. I love you, ma'am.

We catch up with the grandmother who's alive thanks

And the tides are turning against us weather-wise.

It's looking more unsettled now but not wet all the time.

There have been political talks at Westminister and Stormont today

but little sign of optimism over potential progress.

The Prime Minister met the First and Deputy First Ministers

This picture was released a short time ago by the Government.

Talks in London were overshadowed by more arguments over if,

how and when Welfare Reform should be implemented.

David Cameron has been pushing for more movement.

The Prime Minister also had a separate meeting with Sinn Fein,

his first ever with Sinn Fein as a party since he took office.

At Stormont, the Executive parties concentrated on issues unresolved

We'll hear from our political editor there in a moment.

First, our political correspondent, Martina Purdy, is at Westminster.

The row over welfare reform and how much it is costing the Northern

It has already cost more than 100 made pounds and the longer this

deadlock was on, the more money and will cost. -- ?100 million. The

government position is that if Northern Ireland once the old

welfare system, the more expensive one, it can pay for it. London has

made concessions to Northern Ireland and other regions do not benefit

from and after the meeting, Peter Robinson, whose party is in favour

of and lamenting reforms, blamed Sinn Fein for what he called head in

the sand politics. It is impossible for any intelligent person not to

know what the consequences of their actions are. I find it an outrage

that people would allow the Northern Ireland community to suffer as the

result of a failure to have the courage to take a decision they know

is necessary. What did Sinn Fein say? At the news conference, Gerry

Adams said he was making no apologies and the party was standing

up for the vulnerable and this was about right wing Tory cuts and

Martin McGuinness said that is where the problem lay, with London. We are

not in conflict with Peter Robinson or the DUP on the issue of welfare.

We are in conflict with the British government and we said that David

Cameron during the meeting and I reminded him that I have been

involved in putting together two programmes from government, firstly

with Ian Paisley and then Peter Robinson, where none of this was

discussed. What about the wider talks Sinn Fein had with the Prime

Minister? Did Gerry Adams get any satisfaction? Gerry Adams said it

was useful and a good meeting and he had waited four years to be welcomed

to Downing Street but at the last minute, he ended up at the House of

Commons and Downing Street said the change of venue was due to the fact

that David Cameron had to vote so Sinn Fein was deprived of what it

thought was a very attractive photocall. Gerry Adams has been very

frustrated with London, saying that David Cameron has been disconnected

from the process and that is causing problems and he recently said he has

detected a change of attitude and he welcomed the fact the Prime

detected a change of attitude and he is willing to make the party again

in the autumn. Thank you. -- meet the party.

Whilst Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness were in London, their

There is one element missing? Yes, Richard Haass, these are the Haass

talks without him. He says he will remain uninterested observer but has

ruled out any return. The job of facilitating these talks has been

taken on by a civil servant, Paul Sweeney, the most senior in the

department. And because of that, Sweeney, the most senior in the

is the missing element. He cannot really take the place of an

independent chairperson really take the place of an

discussions. Unionists have made no secret of the fact they want parades

to be the priority but others do not agree? Unionists have already talked

about decoupling parades from the other issues, Alliance said that

would be an insult to the victims who want to see progress on the past

but they got specific today, the Ulster unionists saying they should

get into the nitty-gritty of issues like watch it happen on the 12th of

July by the Ardoyne shops. Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly said there was no

way they would get into that kind of issue because that is the job of the

Parades Commission. Could those commission rulings impact on these

talks? You get a sense that not only do they provide the backdrop to

these talks, but as far as unionists are concerned, they provide the

foreground. We heard from the DUP Minister Jonathan Bell, who said

that nationalists needed to show more tolerance and respect for

parades and he felt that the success of these negotiations depended to a

large degree on that. The other parties say there is more than one

issue and even if they did make progress on parades, that would be

in terms of a structure to replace the Parades Commission one year

hence and it will not affect anything in the short term. Thank

you. Would you know how to do this

in an emergency? We hear from one woman whose

life was saved by her family. Can you imagine being 14 years old,

with an eating disorder and being watched 24/7, including in the

toilet and shower while you're in That's the shocking reality

in our only child Management at Beechcroft in

South Belfast say they can't guarantee same-sex nurses to watch

their patients. Tonight's story revolves

around Aoife Boyle. She was so unhappy with how

she was treated in Beechcroft They say the drugs she was

on were increased without anyone And her parents weren't told

about key parts Beechcroft say they're satisfied

that all of the children in the unit are cared for in

a safe and effective environment. I spent a morning with the Boyle

family and heard Aoife read from a diary she kept

when she was in the unit. Having someone in your face every

five minutes, saying, drink this. They don't know how to treat people

going through this and I felt no support or help. I hated every

minute of it, I felt like I was imprisoned. And not allowed to go

anywhere. That was considered exercise. I was not allowed to walk

anywhere by myself. Her prince say they felt excluded right from day

one. All of what we saw at Beachcroft did absolutely nothing

positive to address the problem. The problem was not the physical side of

eating, that was partially it, but it was more psychological problems

and in that week at Beachcroft, to my knowledge, she received no signal

to go help whatsoever. -- psychological. As a result, she had

to go to the City Hospital to be fed for almost four weeks. It was a

time, her antidepressant was increased by 100% and we were not

told about that. We were not informed. Somebody should have

phoned us or told us, for whatever reason, we have to increase her

antidepressant. But nobody ever told us. I find out by looking at her

chart. The family had other concerns. By the constant one-to-one

supervision of their daughter. It is little wonder that she did not want

to eat. She didn't sleep at all. But only because of the drugs but

because she had a watch it effectively looking at 24 a day. At

the bottom of bed, as was getting undressed, on the shower, in the

toilet, she constantly have somebody looking at, either a female or male

support staff. Beachcroft opened four years ago to meet the demand

for mental health services for young people. Other families have

complained about the start of treatment for eating disorders, and

the children services manager admits they cannot guarantee same-sex

observers. Young boys would prefer to have a female and in terms of who

is helping them, some people strike a particular relationship with staff

and they feel more comfortable but all of the staff are trained to

deliver that. In a safe and dignified way. In the end, the

family discharged from hospital and are treating her at all. They're

paying for private help. Something that either also believes she needs.

This is all you think about constantly. Even if there is

something coming up, like going out with your friends or something

happening with the family, but as always in your head and you either

wake up with a good or bad day. You don't start of good and end up in a

bad day. It is good or bad. Most of the time, it is bad.

And you can join the debate about this story on our Facebook page.

Elderly people going without food and not being kept hydrated.

Those were allegations made to BBC Newsline by a whistleblower

Today, they led to official criticism of the watchdog body

that's meant to carry out inspections across Northern Ireland.

The whistleblower's complaints concerned Cherry Tree Nursing Home.

Now the independent watchdog body, the Regulation and Quality

Improvement Authority, has been told it should have acted sooner.

Nine years on and review confirms the regulators should have missed

nationalist. I need to show my face again, not remain anonymous, my face

to be shown. And for me to be able to work in Mike caring profession

again. What does the Minister need to look? I think he needs to assist

me in helping me to lift my guiding force. The review focused on the

response. In its report,

the review team said the regulator should have taken a more rigorous

approach to enforcing care And that, despite repeated

and multiple failings at the home, enforcement action was taken on just

three occasions in eight years. The team said the RQIA's inspection

reports gave little assurance that what was wrong at Cherry Tree had

been properly addressed. In their recommendations,

the report?s authors said the RQIA should review its enforcement policy

for nursing homes like Cherry Tree. That it could consider

the recruitment of lay assessors with care home backgrounds to take

part in inspections. And that there should be greater

support and protection The BBC's investigations on nursing

homes has triggered the question - is the regulator tough enough

on those who breach regulations? I do not want people to be

frightened of the RQIA but I want people to be focused on the

improvement journey. And I want people to be respectful of the

standards and the radiation is and to abide by those standards. Should

people not be frightened in order for them to be acting and managing

their home better? Theory that did not happen here? I think you can

drive improvement through a respectful relationship or through

willing the big stick. We have to do both.

But the local watchdog says patient safety is being put at risk.

The RQIA's main objective is to protect patients by ensuring there

is improvement and if there is not enough, they should step in and take

Last year, Elizabeth Calvert told the BBC how she found her

She said families shouldn't have had to wait this long for answers.

It has been going on for nine years and I look forward to things

improving in these homes. They need to improve because all people

deserve a kinder life at the end of their lives.

The owners of Cherry Tree said that while the

report's recommendations do not deal with Cherry Tree House specifically,

the report provides useful insight into our own shortcomings.

A woman accused of murdering her baby son in Belfast last March will

be remanded at a mental health facility. Belfast Magistrates Court

heard that a psychiatric report on a 30-year-old has been completed and

she will remain in the unit as a patient. The woman cannot be

identified because of claims it would increase the risk of taking

her own life. Pressed challenge to reporting restrictions will be heard

next month. Five since Saturday and 40

in the last six months. That's the number of people

who have died on our roads. The figures are now going

up instead of down. And a fifth of those killed

this year were on motorbikes. No serious injuries,

as far as we know. But it has been a different

story over the past four days. Two men - the driver of a car and a

motorcyclist - were killed in this one close to a filling station on

the Milltown Road yesterday evening. Their deaths came after a woman was

killed in Londonderry in the morning and two men were killed in separate

crashes on Monday and Saturday. My thoughts and prayers are with the

families of those lost over recent days and indeed those lost over

recent weeks and months. We have had a horrendous start to the year in

terms of deaths on the roads and it is obvious that more needs to be

done. And here's why it's been such

a bad year. Already,

the figures show that 40 people have During the same time last year,

that figure was 27. What the figures don't explain is

why things have gone Almost two years ago I did

a special series for BBC Newsline looking at what we were doing here

to get the number of road deaths down to its lowest-ever figure

since records began. Now the question has to be asked -

what are we doing wrong? There is not one particular point

that I can say is specifically this. Speaking to members of the

investigation unit, they are specialised within road policing and

investigate all fatal road collisions, they tell me that at the

seams and during examinations with forensics scientists, speed is the

major factor. There has also been

a big increase in the number of motorbike riders killed - eight

so far this year, compared to one Neville Kilpatrick teaches both

car users and bikers how to drive. What I teach

when I have pupils out on the road So if they see a hazard like a

vehicle at a junction, if they can't make eye contact then obviously

the driver may not have seen them. And to get themselves more

into a position where they will be seen, so maybe more to the centre

of the road. The police say they will be

increasing their visible presence on the roads to get

the safety message out. The Commonwealth sport

that has no age limits. If someone has a heart attack,

getting immediate CPR will double But do you know how to

carry out life-saving chest Today, the Department of Health

launched a drive to train This evening, we hear how one

woman's life was saved thanks to the bravery and quick thinking

of her daughter and grandson. And in July last year,

it saved Sheila Osbourne's. I put the kettle on and I reached

into the cupboard for the tea bags and was only one left. I turned

around to say this and that was it. That is all I can remember.

Her daughter, Pauline, and grandson, Eoin, had to try to keep her alive.

I thought she had fainted, she was on her way down, I did not catch.

She had the floor. Her lips were going blue, purple. And a strange

noise, it was not normal. So I realised that something else had to

be done. We had to telephone the ambulance. I called and the

operator, called David, said, start doing CPR. My mum started doing CPR

on my granny. This is an edited recording of the actual call that

followed. You are doing a really good job. Come on. Mum, I love you.

You know that? There will be a numberless very shortly. Keep going.

All right? Mummy? You are doing a good job. One, two, three... I was

scared but anxious as well. Because if someone dies, you are not going

to see them again. And I was pretty young, I was nine. You are worrying?

Yes. In Sheila's case there's no doubt

that without the use of CPR, For them to have the courage to

telephone the ambulance and for Pauline to keep her mind straight

and concentrate on what had to be done, I think she is amazing.

Almost a year since their grandmother?s heart attack, this is

a family still coming to terms with what happened, but grateful that CPR

50 new jobs have been created in Cookstown by a firm that

manufactures specialist equipment for the construction industry.

CDE Global says the ?3 million investment will help

The Economy Minister welcomed the news.

This is a local firm using local expertise but very much with a

global outreach. And for different sectors in seven regions of the

world. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to grow the economy

here. To look at the export market and bring excellence into those

markets. There's less than one month to

go to the Commonwealth Games. And tonight we continue our

countdown to Glasgow 2014, looking at a sport the Northern Ireland team

traditionally fares very well in. That's because the team includes

a man who has won more medals than any other for his country,

as Nial Foster reports. with four gold medals and four

bronze medals, David Calvert is Mr Commonwealth Games. And at the age

of 64, he is back for Glasgow. I have been doing this for a very long

time so I enjoy the sport, the competition and the social side is

important. We end up competition and the social side is

and against the same people in a lot of the time for years and even

and against the same people in a lot decades. He is joined by 22-year-old

Jack Alexander, forming an unlikely partnership. With Jack, he is almost

one third of my age so this is an unusual combination. We have been

training together to work out as a team what we can do. I would like to

believe that we will be competitive, in the pairs and as individuals. I

think we work very well together. We are both very different, as much as

we love the same sport. I hope that we can turn up on the day and

perform as well as we have done. If the pressure is on, I can still

cope. I think we will work well. While Jack is his first Commonwealth

Games, it will be covered's 10th. And he has hopes of adding more

medals to his collection. Having achieved that takes away some

pressure but the expectation is there so this is a mix. Any time it

happens, it is marvellous, a great experience and I would love to do it

again. The aim is gold once again. Ten Commonwealth Games -

an amazing achievement in itself. We have had seven months in a row

with temperatures above average. July has a warm start and even

though we have had more cloud, more of a breeze today, temperatures are

currently still sitting at 21 degrees in parts of the south-east.

Different today, the cloud paddling in across many parts of Scotland and

Ireland and we have had some rain running in as well and some of that

remind this evening. Just edging eastwards. As it does, it is

weakening and thinning so there will be part of the South and East that

will see none of that. Once it does clearly, the breeze eases dine and

the rest of the light is dry and very mild. Temperatures no lower

than ten or 11. Into tomorrow, it looks like we will see a fair amount

of dry weather for a good part of the day, but there will still be

some cloud. That does not mean any bright spells -- there will not be

bright spells, in the morning we shall see brightness across County

Durham, Armagh and the South. The cloud will gather, or cloud plans

sunshine and we're looking at cloudy skies developing the sunshine but

for the middle part of the afternoon it should be largely dry across the

south-east. Once again, the cloud will thicken further towards the

West. You will see more rain starting to nudge in their through

the latter part of the afternoon, although the rain is likely to be

quite patchy. Temperatures tomorrow at 17 or 19 degrees, not bad and not

much of a breeze. It will not despite that cloud. That patchy rain

tomorrow evening moves eastwards and then clears away and we briefly get

a dry slot through tomorrow night but that will not last. More

persistent rain will move into the North and West and that reason is

picking up. That sets the scene for Friday, pretty miserable for a good

part of the day and heavy, persistent rain although it does

look like it shall brighten up later in the day. It will also turn

fresher. That event on Friday is a weather front bringing that wet,

windy weather and low pressure follows behind so although it does

brighten up, there will be heavy showers. The headline stash tensions

over welfare reform have overshadowed talks between David

Cameron Andy First and Deputy First Ministers in London. And a damning

report has fine but our health regular at ignored warnings and

elderly people in the Carrickfergus nursing home were at risk.

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