:00:00. > :00:09.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:10. > :00:12.Police have begun a murder inquiry into the death of prison officer
:00:13. > :00:15.Adrian Ismay after a post mortem examination found that he died
:00:16. > :00:16.as a direct result of the injuries sustained
:00:17. > :00:19.in a dissident republican car bomb attack earlier this month.
:00:20. > :00:29.Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.
:00:30. > :00:33.Friends and neighbours have rallied round the family of Adrian Ismay.
:00:34. > :00:35.When news of the 52-year-old's death was announced yesterday,
:00:36. > :00:39.the suspicion was that his heart attack was the result of injuries
:00:40. > :00:41.suffered when a bomb exploded under his van
:00:42. > :00:48.Today, a postmortem confirmed that was the case.
:00:49. > :00:50.It's understood the postmortem concluded
:00:51. > :00:53.that Adrian Ismay's heart attack was caused by a blood clot.
:00:54. > :01:02.It says that clot was a direct result of injuries sustained
:01:03. > :01:04.in the bomb explosion here 12 days ago.
:01:05. > :01:13.the police have now launched a murder inquiry.
:01:14. > :01:14.One man has already appeared in court
:01:15. > :01:16.and been charged with attempted murder.
:01:17. > :01:18.He's expected to be brought back to court within days
:01:19. > :01:20.for that charge to be changed to murder.
:01:21. > :01:22.The Director-General of the Prison Service met
:01:23. > :01:26.shortly after it was confirmed that his death was the result
:01:27. > :01:33.They are absolutely devastated by what has happened.
:01:34. > :01:35.I spent time with his wife and one of his daughters.
:01:36. > :01:38.There are lots of people at the house supporting them -
:01:39. > :01:39.wider family, friends and neighbours -
:01:40. > :01:45.but they are beyond shock at what has happened.
:01:46. > :01:47.Sue McAllister also said claims that a small number of dissident
:01:48. > :01:49.republicans in Maghaberry had celebrated news of the death
:01:50. > :01:52.and taunted prison staff by smoking cigars in the exercise yard
:01:53. > :02:01.of their wing had been substantiated.
:02:02. > :02:03.I felt very angry, as did many of my colleagues,
:02:04. > :02:05.angry that people were behaving that way,
:02:06. > :02:07.but we encounter challenging behaviour by a small number
:02:08. > :02:16.and we do not do to behaving that way in response.
:02:17. > :02:34.Adrian Ismay will be buried on Tuesday.
:02:35. > :02:36.The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams says it's unacceptable
:02:37. > :02:39.that he was unable to get into the White House
:02:40. > :02:43.Mr Adams says he was told there was an issue of 'security'
:02:44. > :02:44.when he arrived for the event yesterday evening.
:02:45. > :02:57.It's understood he waited for around 80 minutes before leaving.
:02:58. > :03:04.They say it was a security issue. It is my experience that Sinn Fein
:03:05. > :03:11.representatives travelling are subjected to researchers, subjected
:03:12. > :03:14.to additional scrutiny. I am nearby invitation. I never come to the
:03:15. > :03:19.United States unless they invited. It is bad manners and it is not a
:03:20. > :03:23.good way to treat guests. We are not going to sit on the back of the bus.
:03:24. > :03:32.The Congress members who we met this morning, indeed the people we just
:03:33. > :03:36.met in the State Department, where prophecies -- or profusely their
:03:37. > :03:41.apologies for what had occurred. The Congress members were Oakridge, they
:03:42. > :03:45.understand the role that Sinn Fein has led and we are not expecting any
:03:46. > :03:50.special treatment but I would like to think out of this negative
:03:51. > :03:52.episode that some positivity may come, and we may eventually get
:03:53. > :03:57.these issues involved. Northern Ireland is to get its first
:03:58. > :03:59.air ambulance service. ?4 million worth of funding
:04:00. > :04:02.for the initiative was announced in Chancellor George Osborne's
:04:03. > :04:03.budget this afternoon. As our Health Correspondent
:04:04. > :04:05.Marie-Louise Connolly reports the service could be up
:04:06. > :04:11.and running within months. A medical helicopter
:04:12. > :04:13.like this will be landing While the timing
:04:14. > :04:18.of the news came as a surprise, what was even more
:04:19. > :04:21.surprising was that it was the Chancellor making
:04:22. > :04:22.the announcement. The funding comes from fines imposed
:04:23. > :04:50.on banks for rigging interest rates The campaign for an air ambulance
:04:51. > :04:53.has been long and at times fraught. In 2009, a charity was dissolved
:04:54. > :04:58.after it got into financial difficulties. The issue laid dormant
:04:59. > :05:01.until last year when the death of Doctor John Heinz, one of the
:05:02. > :05:07.so-called flying Doctors of road racing, which is back on the agenda.
:05:08. > :05:12.A motor cycle event in the Republic, weeks before he died, he told the
:05:13. > :05:16.BBC that a helicopter emergency medical service would be a game
:05:17. > :05:20.changer in terms of, provision. We know that other companies that have
:05:21. > :05:25.implemented this system have a bust their outcomes. Drummer deaths have
:05:26. > :05:30.been reduced by 40%. We are missing that at the moment. The campaign had
:05:31. > :05:38.received both medical and clinical backing. It must be centrally
:05:39. > :05:41.located and able to bridge in the shortest possible time where
:05:42. > :05:47.located and able to bridge in the the accidents occur, which is in the
:05:48. > :05:51.east of the province. While it was George Osbourne's budget that gave
:05:52. > :05:55.the air ambulance Project permission to land in Northern Ireland, it will
:05:56. > :06:04.be up to Simon Hamilton to work out the minor detail, such as location,
:06:05. > :06:08.staffing and long-term funding. The service could take off very soon, as
:06:09. > :06:10.have all the money is already available in the 2016 slashed 17
:06:11. > :06:13.budget. to the Northern Ireland
:06:14. > :06:17.Executive. Changes to tax thresholds will also
:06:18. > :06:20.put money in people's pockets. Our business correspondent
:06:21. > :06:45.Julian O'Neill has more details. Storm at get
:06:46. > :06:54.allowance is rising to ?11,500 from next year,
:06:55. > :06:56.allowance is rising to ?11,500 from better off. And despite all the
:06:57. > :06:57.speculation, fuel duty is frozen. Also the tax on there, spirits and
:06:58. > :07:14.cider. The man in charge of
:07:15. > :07:25.the Stormont chequebook also has a little more
:07:26. > :07:27.to work with. There are pressures that this
:07:28. > :07:30.223 million will give some element of relief, which I think ministers
:07:31. > :07:45.in the new Executive will welcome. Income tax thresholds
:07:46. > :07:46.are changing next year. The amount on which no tax is paid
:07:47. > :07:49.is increasing and the 40p rate
:07:50. > :07:51.will kick in higher, at 45,000. 16p is being added
:07:52. > :07:54.to a pack of 20 cigarettes and one of the budget's
:07:55. > :07:56.big headlines is a new sugar tax with a slice of the revenue raised
:07:57. > :08:06.coming back to Stormont. More beneficial for the money to go
:08:07. > :08:09.somewhere useful and maybe reduce sugary drinks, though most people
:08:10. > :08:18.will still buy them. It is a good idea and
:08:19. > :08:20.workable, if it goes back
:08:21. > :08:23.into the economy, it's a good idea. Our leaders are in the US promoting
:08:24. > :08:25.local corporation tax. The Chancellor will
:08:26. > :08:27.announce a new rate by 2020, which makes it easier
:08:28. > :08:30.for the indicative to pay for. A further ?3.5 million
:08:31. > :08:44.of savings are required and it is hard to see Stormont
:08:45. > :08:47.escaping a share of the pain. As one economist put
:08:48. > :08:50.it, a spoonful of sugar tax Ten years ago, we revealed on BBC
:08:51. > :09:15.Newsline that more than 300 patients who should have been living
:09:16. > :09:19.in the community. I've been to meet one of those
:09:20. > :09:25.who've been resettled Joe McCartney was placed
:09:26. > :09:28.in Muckamore in County Antrim He's almost 56 and this is the first
:09:29. > :09:35.time Joe McCartney It's the first time he's
:09:36. > :09:39.done his own laundry That's because he spent 53 years
:09:40. > :09:44.living on a ward in Muckamore hospital, sent there
:09:45. > :09:49.aged just three. and he was there for
:09:50. > :10:00.all that, 53 years. Special care nursing
:10:01. > :10:02.is a discipline and an art, All dormitories, I think
:10:03. > :10:12.there were six in it. He also had some
:10:13. > :10:18.behavioural problems. His family say their mum
:10:19. > :10:20.was heartbroken but when she died
:10:21. > :10:22.when Joe was nine, it was generally
:10:23. > :10:24.accepted that he stay there. His family say
:10:25. > :10:25.it was a difficult life as Joe's problems seemed
:10:26. > :10:28.to get worse as he got older. It was a bit rough,
:10:29. > :10:30.Joe self-harmed a lot. We would have got
:10:31. > :10:34.a phone call every few months. Every time we got a phone call
:10:35. > :10:37.we thought that was it. We thought we would have
:10:38. > :10:39.been taking him home. Life today, though,
:10:40. > :10:48.is completely different. Since he moved out of Muckamore,
:10:49. > :10:51.all of his self-harming has stopped. He shares this house
:10:52. > :10:53.with three others - a supported housing scheme run
:10:54. > :10:55.by the local health trust so we don't know
:10:56. > :11:00.what the motivation was but I suspect it was the best
:11:01. > :11:02.thing at the time but with hindsight
:11:03. > :11:04.it looks barbaric. It's not the kind of thing that
:11:05. > :11:07.would be acceptable nowadays. Joe's brother and sister now get
:11:08. > :11:11.to visit every day a much closer
:11:12. > :11:15.family connection. You know, he never
:11:16. > :11:17.had all that before. he'd no life in Muckamore
:11:18. > :11:26.compared to what he has now. For the first time,
:11:27. > :11:28.he has his own room. As we were leaving, Joe made a card
:11:29. > :11:32.to thank us for coming. His family are relieved to see him
:11:33. > :11:35.happy and settled. But they, and the professionals
:11:36. > :11:37.working with him, wonder if his life
:11:38. > :11:39.would have been different had he not been sent to hospital
:11:40. > :11:40.all those years ago. Now, with the weather forecast,
:11:41. > :11:59.here's Cecilia Daly. The dry weather continues. Most
:12:00. > :12:03.places brightened up eventually but the rest of the sunshine is up
:12:04. > :12:07.towards the north coast and north-west. We are expecting a
:12:08. > :12:11.brighter day generally tomorrow, for St Patrick's Day. A lot of the gaps
:12:12. > :12:14.in the cloud will still intimate. It will still get quite cold,
:12:15. > :12:18.especially in the north-west, and a mixture of mist and fog and low
:12:19. > :12:21.cloud to start with on Thursday morning. Again, a bit of a slow
:12:22. > :12:28.start but it should brighten more quickly compared to today.
:12:29. > :12:31.Mid-morning onwards we should start to see some hold in the cloud. Some
:12:32. > :12:33.sunshine appearing. The best to come in the afternoon. A brighter day
:12:34. > :12:36.generally across many parts of Britain, even some of these North
:12:37. > :12:40.Sea coasts could see some sunshine tomorrow but it will be chilly in
:12:41. > :12:44.the east. The Republic also seeing a bit of sunshine eventually but some
:12:45. > :12:48.of that mist and low cloud could hang around in the Midlands for a
:12:49. > :12:51.good part of the day. It should be a dry and increasingly bright, if not
:12:52. > :12:56.sunny, afternoon for the parade in Belfast tomorrow and also it will be
:12:57. > :13:01.pretty good for both the McRory cup final and the schools cup final
:13:02. > :13:04.tomorrow afternoon. Test temperatures in the West 11,
:13:05. > :13:08.possibly 12 degrees. It will be quite a nice afternoon. On Friday,
:13:09. > :13:12.still dry but a little bit cooler and generally cloudier as well with
:13:13. > :13:16.some breaks in the cloud, particularly across the west and
:13:17. > :13:20.south-west. The worst weekend, this settled spell continues. Essentially
:13:21. > :13:21.drier are quite a lot of cloud, we think, and temperatures drop a
:13:22. > :13:23.little bit. Have a great evening. Our next BBC Newsline is at six
:13:24. > :13:26.twenty five in the morning to be at the starting line
:13:27. > :13:46.of this year's Sport Relief Games.