:00:00. > :00:00.at the age of 81. That's all from us.
:00:00. > :00:00.For A 23-year-old man has admitted
:00:07. > :00:09.setting fire to A second man has also pleaded guilty
:00:10. > :00:14.to a charge relating to the attack. Cody the dog had to be put to sleep
:00:15. > :00:17.because There are some images in
:00:18. > :00:35.Claire Savage's report Leaving the court yesterday, Andrew
:00:36. > :00:39.Richard Stewart from Wellington Park in Moira. He had lied about his
:00:40. > :00:47.involvement and denied setting fire to the family pet. This is Cody. On
:00:48. > :00:54.a Sunday morning in 2012 the family noticed she was missing. She arrived
:00:55. > :00:58.at the door 60 minutes later, her skin badly burned. She had to be put
:00:59. > :01:04.to sleep. The acne family subsequently raised ?30,000 for
:01:05. > :01:09.animal charities and mounted a campaign to find he ever set fire to
:01:10. > :01:15.a 3 -year-old border collie. Today, Andrew Richard Stewart pleaded
:01:16. > :01:20.guilty. A prosecution barrister told the court that he accepted that he
:01:21. > :01:26.acted alone and that he stepped Cody alive in the quarry. It is
:01:27. > :01:32.horrendous, the effect it has had my children, let alone the dog. They
:01:33. > :01:38.have had to have counselling. It has been hard to come to terms with. It
:01:39. > :01:46.is hard to try and explain it to the children when we don't understand
:01:47. > :01:51.ourselves. Also in the dock was Jamie Downey, from Chestnut Hill
:01:52. > :01:54.Avenue in Moira. He did not want to be captured on camera this
:01:55. > :01:58.afternoon. The court heard that he made up a story about his movements
:01:59. > :02:02.on the day in question. The judge said that Andrew Richard Stewart was
:02:03. > :02:07.facing an inevitable prison sentence. Both men were released on
:02:08. > :02:10.bail and are due to be sentenced on the 7th of October.
:02:11. > :02:14.A fire in which a man died in County Down this week is now being
:02:15. > :02:17.The police are questioning a 57-year-old woman on suspicion
:02:18. > :02:19.of the manslaughter of 91-year-old Sam Carson in Carryduff.
:02:20. > :02:22.Fire crews were called to deal with the blaze at Thorndale Park
:02:23. > :02:26.It's thought it began at another property and burning oil
:02:27. > :02:29.from a ruptured tank then started a fire at Mr Carson's house.
:02:30. > :02:30.Detectives say they arrested the woman
:02:31. > :02:45.A retired company director has told the Historical Institutional Abuse
:02:46. > :02:47.Inquiry that he became a teenage prostitute in Australia after
:02:48. > :02:50.suffering physical and sexual abuse at a Church of Ireland children's
:02:51. > :02:53.He was among a group of boys shipped abroad as part
:02:54. > :02:56.of a Child Migrant Scheme in the middle of the last century.
:02:57. > :03:13.The child migrants leaving Northern Ireland did not know at the time
:03:14. > :03:18.that happiness and laughter would not last. The them on the other side
:03:19. > :03:22.of the voyage was pain, heartbreak and separation. This morning and
:03:23. > :03:26.another of the child immigrants appeared before the enquiry on the
:03:27. > :03:32.video link from Australia. He said the abuse began before he left
:03:33. > :03:37.Northern Ireland is at a Church of Ireland house in Lisbon. He suffered
:03:38. > :03:41.further abuse in Australia at a farm run by the Presbyterian Church. He
:03:42. > :03:47.told the enquiry he was beaten, sexually abused and treated, in his
:03:48. > :03:53.own words, treated as a retard in the homes. He said he would like to
:03:54. > :03:59.see a monument erected in the middle of Belfast to remind people about
:04:00. > :04:03.what happened to him and people like him. Another former child resident
:04:04. > :04:07.at the Church of Ireland home in Lisbon also called the enquiry he
:04:08. > :04:10.was abused there. The man said that during the day he was tied to a rope
:04:11. > :04:15.which is weighed down with a brick and at night he was tied to his bed
:04:16. > :04:21.to stop him from running away. The first week of evidence from the
:04:22. > :04:25.child migrants has ended. A week in which many painful memories of the
:04:26. > :04:29.past were recalled, including this memory from one witness. I retain
:04:30. > :04:32.this memory still being pulled from the arms of her mother as a baby.
:04:33. > :04:34.The Environment Minister, Mark Durkan, has given the go-ahead
:04:35. > :04:36.to a long-delayed planning framework for Greater Belfast.
:04:37. > :04:39.The Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan identifies zones for retail,
:04:40. > :04:40.residential or commercial development.
:04:41. > :04:46.The DUP's Edwin Poots says he's shocked by the decision.
:04:47. > :04:48.He claims it's a matter for the whole Executive.
:04:49. > :04:51.But Mr Durkan says he can no longer hold back planning in the
:04:52. > :05:07.The plan has been through a long and arduous process. It received its
:05:08. > :05:11.certificate of general conformity in October of last year and since the
:05:12. > :05:23.turn of this year I have rotted to the executive repeatedly seeking
:05:24. > :05:29.agreement and approval. I have a responsibility as the minister, but
:05:30. > :05:30.they also have have a responsibility to my executive powers and function.
:05:31. > :05:33.There will be more on that story on Good Morning Ulster tomorrow
:05:34. > :05:37.A former patient has told a Human Rights Inquiry into emergency care
:05:38. > :05:40.that she thought she was going to be left to die after being transferred
:05:41. > :05:44.The inquiry, the first of its kind, is investigating
:05:45. > :05:47.whether a patient's right to health was violated as a result of how
:05:48. > :06:01.Deidre has various health complications and earlier this year
:06:02. > :06:08.was a patient in the Royal Victoria and city hospitals. I was taken and
:06:09. > :06:14.dumped at the City Hospital. I am convinced that I was being moved to
:06:15. > :06:19.the City Hospital to die. Because I would have been in their figures for
:06:20. > :06:22.old people who died. It is stories like this that are being heard at
:06:23. > :06:27.the human rights enquiry into emergency health care. It is not
:06:28. > :06:35.just patients giving evidence. The enquiry is hearing from those in
:06:36. > :06:40.charge as well. You hear heartbreak and personal stories from those who
:06:41. > :06:45.have been let down by our health service. For the first time not only
:06:46. > :06:49.here but in the world the enquiry is trying to establish whether a
:06:50. > :06:52.patient's right to health was violated as a result of the type of
:06:53. > :06:58.care they got in an emergency Department. It will be a report that
:06:59. > :07:02.will be drawn to the attention of the United Nations and we hope that
:07:03. > :07:08.a combination of including people, transparent process. Speaking
:07:09. > :07:12.directly to the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Hunt drew his
:07:13. > :07:17.attention to some of the recommendations. He said that staff
:07:18. > :07:22.should be included in any fraud planning and that the importance of
:07:23. > :07:26.protecting patient dignity. This enquiry is designed to give patients
:07:27. > :07:28.a voice and according to Deidre, that is significant.
:07:29. > :07:31.The Chief Constable has warned that the ability of the PSNI to do its
:07:32. > :07:34.job will suffer because of budget cuts of up to ?80 million this year.
:07:35. > :07:37.George Hamilton told the Policing Board that could mean reducing
:07:38. > :07:39.the amount of resources used to investigate the past to concentrate
:07:40. > :07:54.The total reduction in the police budget in this year compared to last
:07:55. > :08:04.year is going to be at best 73 million pounds. And it could rise on
:08:05. > :08:06.the basis of the projections up towards ?88 million. It is a huge
:08:07. > :08:09.amount of money. Many parents will be interested
:08:10. > :08:12.in a story we'll be covering on tomorrow's BBC Newsline and
:08:13. > :08:14.on Radio Ulster. Here's our education correspondent,
:08:15. > :08:24.Maggie Taggart. To pay or not to pay? With so many
:08:25. > :08:24.schools asking pupils to use computer tablets, we ask who should
:08:25. > :08:27.fit the bill. That's coming up on BBC Newsline
:08:28. > :08:49.tomorrow evening at 6.30pm. It has been mainly dry day.
:08:50. > :08:54.Temperatures overnight will stick at about 14 degrees overnight tonight.
:08:55. > :09:00.Tomorrow will start cloudy with some dampness around. It will improve by
:09:01. > :09:03.the end of the day. So, cloudy start, but this band of rain will
:09:04. > :09:09.come in from the north-west. Not a lot of room to worry about. That
:09:10. > :09:13.band of rain will be stretching into parts of the Republican into
:09:14. > :09:16.Scotland, as well. So tough that it will be drier and brighter with
:09:17. > :09:21.spells of sunshine. For the south-east of Ireland plenty of
:09:22. > :09:23.sunshine before the weather front since its way southwards.
:09:24. > :09:29.Temperatures will be down on tomorrow as we have a northerly
:09:30. > :09:36.wind. Towards the north coast, 1415 degrees will be the highs, 16 or 17
:09:37. > :09:39.further south. The wet weather will clear the south-east coast and once
:09:40. > :09:42.that happens it will brighten up nicely with sunshine tomorrow
:09:43. > :09:46.evening to end the day. The weekend is shaping up to be pretty decent.
:09:47. > :09:56.It will feel cooler and fresher with the northerly winds. At least it is
:09:57. > :09:59.dry. The good news is looking ahead to Sunday and Monday, the high
:10:00. > :10:01.pressure remained in control so a lot of dry unsettled weather to
:10:02. > :10:02.come. You can keep up to date with
:10:03. > :10:07.News Online and follow this