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A woman has admitted killing her 91-year-old neighbour - | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
after a fire in her garage spread to his home. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
91-year-old Samuel Carson was at sleep -- | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
asleep at his home in September 2014. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
In the early hours a fire began in the garage in the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The fire spread to an oil tank on Mr Carson's property. | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
Rescue services took him from the house, | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
He was described as a well-loved member | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
An animal lover who also kept horses. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Initially police said it was not a suspicious incident, but two days | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
later they were treating it as arson and arrested a woman, a neighbour, | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
Today she pleaded guilty to manslaughter. | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
Two more charges of arson endangering life will be kept | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Psychiatric reports have been ordered, and she has been released | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Providing care at home for sick and older people keeps | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
But the private companies that provide the service say the costs | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
are becoming increasingly challenging. | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
They say one of the main reasons is the recent introduction | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
But according to the unions the independent or private sector | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Charlene is a full-time care assistant, which means she looks | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
after the sick and elderly in their own homes. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
It is hard work, with some calls lasting just 15 minutes. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
You cannot make an assessment in 15 minutes. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Never mind trying to clean him and getting him dressed. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
We always have to think of our client, and 15 | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
It all seems very pressurised, and that is often felt by the person | :02:12. | :02:23. | |
You're afraid in case you don't get the toilet in time, | :02:24. | :02:39. | |
Following in Charlene's footsteps, these new care assistants are being | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
The service they will provide however is | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
organised and paid for by the local health trust. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
They pay the company ?12 per hour; from that, providers | :02:49. | :03:01. | |
train staff, pay wages and other costs. | :03:02. | :03:02. | |
But since the introduction of the national living wage, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
they also have to pay staff an additional 50p per hour. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
With inflation, increased regulation, increased costs, we | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
haven't got enough money to cover those costs. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
You have to question why they are in the business of health care | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
provision and particularly home care provision, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
why they think you should be able to make a profit out of the | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
condition of vulnerable older people in particular, | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
and what exactly they mean by the fact that there is going | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
to be a modest pay rise for home care workers. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Does that mean their businesses are not on a sound | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
According to the health trusts, they have recognised the additional | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
costs, and increased their funding to the | :03:55. | :03:55. | |
The first televised debate of the Assembly election campaign | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
has taken place featuring the five main parties. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Arlene Foster, Mike Nesbitt, Colum Eastwood and David Ford joined | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Martin McGuinness at the UTV election debate at the Lyric | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Our political correspondent Stephen Walker watched it unfold. | :04:10. | :04:23. | |
For Arlene Foster and Colum Eastwood, this was their first | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
election debate. For the DUP leader, there was a nervous start. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
I want to make a real difference to people's lives. On election day you | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
have a choice... Later she seemed more confident when | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
she and Mike Nesbitt differed over abortion. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
We should change the law with regard to fatal fatal abnormalities and sex | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
crime, and in the last time what we did was Dickensian. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
When Mike talks about Dickensian, more of his party voted with me in | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
the last few occasions than with him. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
It is a broken promise, you made sure you had support from other | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
parties to block bad Bill without having to use petition... | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
After abortion, the debate turned to education. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
First of all, Martin has told us for many years that he abolished the 11 | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
plus. And of course he didn't. We have | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
young children, ten, 11, doing 45 exams outside of primary school. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
I want to see that system go. The 11 plus was abolished, it was a | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Government examination. It is still happening now. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
It is not, the examination is taking place at the moment are under the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
tutelage of grammar schools. The Government does not impose | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
selection on children at the age of ten and 11. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
The alliance leader David Ford said integrated education needed greater | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
support. You see what parents want, and a | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
very large number of them want to see the parents educated in | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
integrated schools. It is also one way of avoiding the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
waste of money, the half empty desks and school buildings. We should put | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
the money into educating children rather than cleaning floors and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
keeping slaves on roofs. Matters turned to the economy. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Proceedings ended with a light hearted question about which actors | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
should pay them back play them in a film. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Mike Nesbitt eventually went for Liz Hurley. | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Martin McGuinness chose: Mini, Arlene Foster Demi Moore, and David | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Ford chose Liam Neeson, and Colum Eastwood went for Jamie Dornan. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Then, the first televised battle of election 2016 was complete. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
So that's the end of this debate, but not the end of the discussion. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
The next major televised debate will be on the BBC next month. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Eight members of the UK Labour Party are standing | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
as candidates for the Assembly, even though Labour's | :07:11. | :07:11. | |
National Executive Committee is still reviewing whether it should | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
The candidates say they will disband their representation committee once | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
the Labour leadership gives local people permission | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
But they insist they can't wait for Labour's official | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
We had such a demand since the leadership election campaign last | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
summer, our membership's gone up from 350 to 1800 supporters and | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
members. We didn't feel we could wait any longer, were standing as | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
independent candidates, and although we let entrance to the race I am | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
confident we will do very well. -- although we are late entrants. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
The mother of a teenager who died after taking so-called legal highs | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
says she's concerned proposed legislation to tackle the problem | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
It's a year since Adele Wallace's son Adam was found | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Adele Wallace doing what no parent should ever have to - | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
making floral tributes for her son's grave. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
It's a year since 17-year-old Adam died after taking so-called | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
We have to go to a cemetery to see him. The hardest part is when you | :08:20. | :08:37. | |
have to bury your child at 17, it seems so wrong. | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
In the last 12 months Dell has campaigned for more help teenagers, | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
but is worried proposed legislation is tough enough. -- Adele. | :08:52. | :09:10. | |
I do have major concerns, because in the South | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
it hasn't been working for | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
prosecutions from 2010 until 2016, which speaks volumes because I | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
believe there are more than four drug dealers down south peddling | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Adele says she will continue to highlight the dangers of so-called | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
"Legal highs", as she doesn't want any other mother to go through this | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
When you think of the loss itself, such a bright future just gone. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
To the extent that you nearly don't want to go out | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
the door because it is so hard on you emotionally. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Adele says she hopes that today people remember Adam the way he was | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
The family of murdered former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
say they're to take legal action against the authorities | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
in the Republic over the handling of the case. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Mr Donaldson was shot dead at a cottage in Donegal ten years | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
ago, shortly after being exposed as an agent who had worked | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
The inquest into his death was adjourned for the nineteenth | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
The family's lawyer say they will challenge the delays | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Today I have been extracted not to attend further and there is a | :10:06. | :10:24. | |
defended -- definitive ruling from the courts. It may go to the Court | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
of Appeal of the Supreme Court before but is completed. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
-- before that is completed. A resident says Belfast City Council | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
has been too slow to respond 18 of the rodents have been caught | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
in and around his rented house in the south of the city since last | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Friday. This report contains close-ups of | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
dead rats. And there is plenty | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
more where this bucket The rats have been | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
plaguing tenants in Attempts to control the numbers | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
have proved futile. I've had the woman from this house | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
on the phone to me late night in tears, there's three | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
children in the house, The owner says the source | :11:04. | :11:04. | |
of the programme -- He was told by the Council | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
there is a waiting list, and it would take up to ten | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
days to investigate. Local residents say the rabbits can | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
be spotted in this alleyway in broad Some believe they are coming | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
up this broken pipe at This afternoon Belfast | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
City Council said pest Now, with the weather forecast, | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
here's Geoff Maskell. Good evening. The cloudy and damp | :11:41. | :12:02. | |
theme continues for at least one more day. We keep a bit of that rain | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
around overnight, but tomorrow things become increasingly drier and | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
bright, before turning a little bit cooler on Friday. Overnight we've | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
got that fail of cloud sitting across much of Northern Ireland. We | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
keep temperatures on the mild side tonight, five or 6 degrees the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
overnight low in most places. We will be waking up to a familiar | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
picture tomorrow, with some quite cloudy skies and a few showers | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
around. But as we go through the day we will start to see things brighten | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
up. A high ridge of pressure will be enough to turn off the showers. The | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
view across the whole of the British Isles, you can see we've still got | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
that split in our temperatures, but warmer son of air over England and | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Wales, with so much cooler temperatures across parts of | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. -- warmer zone. Into Thursday evening, | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
enjoy it because we have a change on the way on Friday, as this cool | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
front sinks its way slowly south. It means we are going to see rain | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
through the day on Friday, but behind it we have some much clearer, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
fresher, colder air. So the air temperature at least is going to dip | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
down. The upside is that we should see some brighter skies by the time | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
it gets to this weekend. | :13:27. | :13:29. |