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A woman has admitted killing her 91-year-old neighbour -

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after a fire in her garage spread to his home.

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91-year-old Samuel Carson was at sleep --

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asleep at his home in September 2014.

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In the early hours a fire began in the garage in the

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The fire spread to an oil tank on Mr Carson's property.

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Rescue services took him from the house,

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He was described as a well-loved member

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An animal lover who also kept horses.

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Initially police said it was not a suspicious incident, but two days

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later they were treating it as arson and arrested a woman, a neighbour,

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Today she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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Two more charges of arson endangering life will be kept

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Psychiatric reports have been ordered, and she has been released

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Providing care at home for sick and older people keeps

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But the private companies that provide the service say the costs

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are becoming increasingly challenging.

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They say one of the main reasons is the recent introduction

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But according to the unions the independent or private sector

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Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports.

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Charlene is a full-time care assistant, which means she looks

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after the sick and elderly in their own homes.

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It is hard work, with some calls lasting just 15 minutes.

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You cannot make an assessment in 15 minutes.

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Never mind trying to clean him and getting him dressed.

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We always have to think of our client, and 15

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It all seems very pressurised, and that is often felt by the person

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You're afraid in case you don't get the toilet in time,

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Following in Charlene's footsteps, these new care assistants are being

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The service they will provide however is

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organised and paid for by the local health trust.

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They pay the company ?12 per hour; from that, providers

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train staff, pay wages and other costs.

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But since the introduction of the national living wage,

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they also have to pay staff an additional 50p per hour.

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With inflation, increased regulation, increased costs, we

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haven't got enough money to cover those costs.

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You have to question why they are in the business of health care

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provision and particularly home care provision,

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why they think you should be able to make a profit out of the

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condition of vulnerable older people in particular,

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and what exactly they mean by the fact that there is going

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to be a modest pay rise for home care workers.

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Does that mean their businesses are not on a sound

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According to the health trusts, they have recognised the additional

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costs, and increased their funding to the

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The first televised debate of the Assembly election campaign

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has taken place featuring the five main parties.

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Arlene Foster, Mike Nesbitt, Colum Eastwood and David Ford joined

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Martin McGuinness at the UTV election debate at the Lyric

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Our political correspondent Stephen Walker watched it unfold.

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For Arlene Foster and Colum Eastwood, this was their first

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election debate. For the DUP leader, there was a nervous start.

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I want to make a real difference to people's lives. On election day you

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have a choice... Later she seemed more confident when

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she and Mike Nesbitt differed over abortion.

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We should change the law with regard to fatal fatal abnormalities and sex

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crime, and in the last time what we did was Dickensian.

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When Mike talks about Dickensian, more of his party voted with me in

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the last few occasions than with him.

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It is a broken promise, you made sure you had support from other

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parties to block bad Bill without having to use petition...

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After abortion, the debate turned to education.

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First of all, Martin has told us for many years that he abolished the 11

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plus. And of course he didn't. We have

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young children, ten, 11, doing 45 exams outside of primary school.

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I want to see that system go. The 11 plus was abolished, it was a

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Government examination. It is still happening now.

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It is not, the examination is taking place at the moment are under the

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tutelage of grammar schools. The Government does not impose

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selection on children at the age of ten and 11.

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The alliance leader David Ford said integrated education needed greater

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support. You see what parents want, and a

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very large number of them want to see the parents educated in

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integrated schools. It is also one way of avoiding the

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waste of money, the half empty desks and school buildings. We should put

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the money into educating children rather than cleaning floors and

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keeping slaves on roofs. Matters turned to the economy.

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Proceedings ended with a light hearted question about which actors

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should pay them back play them in a film.

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Mike Nesbitt eventually went for Liz Hurley.

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Martin McGuinness chose: Mini, Arlene Foster Demi Moore, and David

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Ford chose Liam Neeson, and Colum Eastwood went for Jamie Dornan.

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Then, the first televised battle of election 2016 was complete.

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So that's the end of this debate, but not the end of the discussion.

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The next major televised debate will be on the BBC next month.

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Eight members of the UK Labour Party are standing

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as candidates for the Assembly, even though Labour's

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National Executive Committee is still reviewing whether it should

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The candidates say they will disband their representation committee once

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the Labour leadership gives local people permission

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But they insist they can't wait for Labour's official

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We had such a demand since the leadership election campaign last

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summer, our membership's gone up from 350 to 1800 supporters and

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members. We didn't feel we could wait any longer, were standing as

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independent candidates, and although we let entrance to the race I am

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confident we will do very well. -- although we are late entrants.

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The mother of a teenager who died after taking so-called legal highs

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says she's concerned proposed legislation to tackle the problem

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It's a year since Adele Wallace's son Adam was found

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Adele Wallace doing what no parent should ever have to -

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making floral tributes for her son's grave.

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It's a year since 17-year-old Adam died after taking so-called

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We have to go to a cemetery to see him. The hardest part is when you

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have to bury your child at 17, it seems so wrong.

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In the last 12 months Dell has campaigned for more help teenagers,

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but is worried proposed legislation is tough enough. -- Adele.

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I do have major concerns, because in the South

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it hasn't been working for

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prosecutions from 2010 until 2016, which speaks volumes because I

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believe there are more than four drug dealers down south peddling

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Adele says she will continue to highlight the dangers of so-called

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"Legal highs", as she doesn't want any other mother to go through this

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When you think of the loss itself, such a bright future just gone.

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To the extent that you nearly don't want to go out

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the door because it is so hard on you emotionally.

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Adele says she hopes that today people remember Adam the way he was

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The family of murdered former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson

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say they're to take legal action against the authorities

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in the Republic over the handling of the case.

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Mr Donaldson was shot dead at a cottage in Donegal ten years

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ago, shortly after being exposed as an agent who had worked

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The inquest into his death was adjourned for the nineteenth

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The family's lawyer say they will challenge the delays

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Today I have been extracted not to attend further and there is a

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defended -- definitive ruling from the courts. It may go to the Court

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of Appeal of the Supreme Court before but is completed.

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-- before that is completed. A resident says Belfast City Council

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has been too slow to respond 18 of the rodents have been caught

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in and around his rented house in the south of the city since last

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Friday. This report contains close-ups of

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dead rats. And there is plenty

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more where this bucket The rats have been

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plaguing tenants in Attempts to control the numbers

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have proved futile. I've had the woman from this house

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on the phone to me late night in tears, there's three

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children in the house, The owner says the source

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of the programme -- He was told by the Council

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there is a waiting list, and it would take up to ten

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days to investigate. Local residents say the rabbits can

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be spotted in this alleyway in broad Some believe they are coming

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up this broken pipe at This afternoon Belfast

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City Council said pest Now, with the weather forecast,

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here's Geoff Maskell. Good evening. The cloudy and damp

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theme continues for at least one more day. We keep a bit of that rain

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around overnight, but tomorrow things become increasingly drier and

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bright, before turning a little bit cooler on Friday. Overnight we've

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got that fail of cloud sitting across much of Northern Ireland. We

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keep temperatures on the mild side tonight, five or 6 degrees the

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overnight low in most places. We will be waking up to a familiar

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picture tomorrow, with some quite cloudy skies and a few showers

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around. But as we go through the day we will start to see things brighten

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up. A high ridge of pressure will be enough to turn off the showers. The

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view across the whole of the British Isles, you can see we've still got

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that split in our temperatures, but warmer son of air over England and

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Wales, with so much cooler temperatures across parts of

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Scotland and Northern Ireland. -- warmer zone. Into Thursday evening,

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enjoy it because we have a change on the way on Friday, as this cool

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front sinks its way slowly south. It means we are going to see rain

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through the day on Friday, but behind it we have some much clearer,

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fresher, colder air. So the air temperature at least is going to dip

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down. The upside is that we should see some brighter skies by the time

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it gets to this weekend.

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