:00:00. > :00:07.So it looks like a weekend for the winter woolies.
:00:08. > :00:12.The Public Prosecution Service has decided NOT to bring a case
:00:13. > :00:15.against a man whose palm print was found in a stolen van -
:00:16. > :00:19.which was suspected of being linked to the Kingsmills killings over
:00:20. > :00:24.The only survivor of the attack says he understands why
:00:25. > :00:38.41 years ago ten Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA and what
:00:39. > :00:42.became known as the Kingsmill 's massacre. Last year during the
:00:43. > :00:46.inquest into their deaths, new evidence was identified and a fresh
:00:47. > :00:50.police investigation began. That evidence involved a palm print,
:00:51. > :00:54.discovered on a stolen van recovered near the dock at the time which was
:00:55. > :00:59.suspected of being links to the killings. The PBS says that after
:01:00. > :01:02.consideration it will not prosecute the individual reported by the PSNI
:01:03. > :01:09.in relation to the murder of ten people. The ascent stunt director of
:01:10. > :01:11.casework concluded that there is no reasonable prospect of the
:01:12. > :01:24.conviction based on evidence. How the van was handled at the time
:01:25. > :01:34.was a factor. Precisely when the palm print was placed on the
:01:35. > :01:37.windscreen also. The PPs is mindful of the reaction of the families. The
:01:38. > :01:41.iMac rather sceptical to start with but then as the months went on I
:01:42. > :01:48.thought they must be onto something. But then the policemen came to my
:01:49. > :01:53.door this morning to give me the file setting out all the reasons why
:01:54. > :01:58.the PPS didn't go ahead with it and really they didn't have a case. So I
:01:59. > :02:04.have to accept that this was going nowhere. We don't deserve that. We
:02:05. > :02:09.deserve to get the truth, we are never going to get justice, but we
:02:10. > :02:15.deserve the truth, and all their families... The coroner's office has
:02:16. > :02:17.confirmed that in light of the PBS decision, it is now giving
:02:18. > :02:23.consideration to the scheduling updates for the Kingsmill inquest to
:02:24. > :02:26.recommence. This news from the prosecution service is a knock-back
:02:27. > :02:30.for the families of the Kingsmill 's victims. The focus now falls back on
:02:31. > :02:32.to the coroner 's enquiry. The inquest into the death of a man
:02:33. > :02:36.who died after leaving a ward at the Ulster Hospital has heard
:02:37. > :02:38.of more concerns by experts in psychiatry about
:02:39. > :02:41.the way he was cared for. They were giving evidence
:02:42. > :02:43.about 22-year-old James Fenton, who left the mental health unit
:02:44. > :02:46.in July 2010. Despite police searches,
:02:47. > :02:47.Mr Fenton's body lay undiscovered in the hospital grounds
:02:48. > :03:04.for ten weeks. This this is Ward 27, the mental
:03:05. > :03:08.health unit at the Ulster Hospital with a smoking area outside.
:03:09. > :03:13.22-year-old James Fenton was admitted there one night in July
:03:14. > :03:16.2010 back then as I troubled young man. He had been ill and his family
:03:17. > :03:21.were relieved certain that the hospital would look after him.
:03:22. > :03:26.Today, to consultant psychiatrist expressed their concern about the
:03:27. > :03:30.way they did. Both men based in England had written reports, one for
:03:31. > :03:35.the coroner, one for the Fenton family, both questioning the
:03:36. > :03:38.hospital diagnosis, both believing James was clinically depressed, both
:03:39. > :03:45.questioning the level of supervision James received whilst on the ward.
:03:46. > :03:54.One professor says they had number of concerns.
:03:55. > :03:59.Doctor Trevor Turner concluded that the hospital didn't take appropriate
:04:00. > :04:03.steps to safeguard his health given the real and immediate risk he
:04:04. > :04:07.showed. He added the level of observation did not seem consistent
:04:08. > :04:11.with the pattern of events leading to the condition or his mental
:04:12. > :04:16.state. In court yesterday to other senior consultant psychiatrists said
:04:17. > :04:20.they disagreed with those conclusions. One of them is the
:04:21. > :04:24.director of mental health services at the south-eastern trust defending
:04:25. > :04:30.the hospital was like diagnosis and actions pivotal phase all -- but the
:04:31. > :04:39.professor said that in one matter evidence was being cherry picked
:04:40. > :04:43.supporting their view. James Fenton was lost if few dozen metres away,
:04:44. > :04:47.and his family has now spent four days listening to the evidence of 20
:04:48. > :04:51.witnesses, and tomorrow the coroner will issue his final findings.
:04:52. > :04:53.The number of agency workers doing jobs in the Northern Ireland
:04:54. > :04:58.A trade union has described the situation as "disgraceful",
:04:59. > :05:00.believing too many people were paid-off under a Stormont
:05:01. > :05:11.Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.
:05:12. > :05:17.The Stormont estate still home to much of the civil service but today
:05:18. > :05:23.smaller than before after the Executive borrowed money to make
:05:24. > :05:26.thousands of staff redundant. But in have come more and more agency
:05:27. > :05:32.workers, hired through recruitment firms on a temporary basis. In June
:05:33. > :05:39.2015 as job cuts started, the civil service had 380 agency workers. The
:05:40. > :05:47.latest figure, post-voluntary exit scheme, for January 2017 is 889. At
:05:48. > :05:53.the date annual costs which will not be clear for a few months are likely
:05:54. > :05:59.to be more than ?10 million. For the non-eyeing the Executive to be spent
:06:00. > :06:03.this money on agency staff a year is disgraceful, that equates to 300
:06:04. > :06:08.permanent full-time jobs. The Department of Finance told me that
:06:09. > :06:13.the use of agency workers is normal practice in any large organisation,
:06:14. > :06:16.and that these workers are only used sparingly. They also point out that
:06:17. > :06:23.the costs are dwarfed by the savings. The department says the
:06:24. > :06:30.redundancy programme has brought savings of ?152 million over the
:06:31. > :06:36.past three years, and when the civil service has produced by one fifth,
:06:37. > :06:42.or around 5000 full-time posts. The public service union however agrees
:06:43. > :06:49.that the staff are paid off using a Treasury loan and are now back as
:06:50. > :06:53.agency workers. You are borrowing money to put people out of work and
:06:54. > :06:57.then go to a private sector the next day saying oh, we let too many
:06:58. > :07:00.people go, can we hire from your company? Some of these people have
:07:01. > :07:03.come back again so you are also paying the agency is all-round
:07:04. > :07:10.Northern Ireland loses, loses, loses. Peterborough diviners does
:07:11. > :07:14.how many former employees have come back but it is allowed under the
:07:15. > :07:18.rules. It also says that a particular contract for the GB civil
:07:19. > :07:20.service account by a big part in the rise of agency workers.
:07:21. > :07:26.Still to come before the end of the programme.
:07:27. > :07:31.A new scheme at a hospital accident and emergency department deals with
:07:32. > :07:35.a growing number of mental patients. A jury's begun considering its
:07:36. > :07:37.verdict in the trial of a west Belfast man accused
:07:38. > :07:41.of killing his baby daughter. Christopher O'Neill -
:07:42. > :07:43.from the Whiterock Road - has pleaded not guilty to murdering
:07:44. > :07:47.three-month-old Caragh Walsh She died two days after
:07:48. > :07:51.being taken to hospital Mr O'Neill denies
:07:52. > :07:56.the prosecution case considerable violence
:07:57. > :08:01.against the infant. A 22-year-old Londonderry man
:08:02. > :08:04.accused over a "one-punch attack" on a footballer has had the charge
:08:05. > :08:08.against him withdrawn, Matthew McDermott,
:08:09. > :08:13.from Cornshell Fields, had been charged with committing
:08:14. > :08:17.grievous bodily harm with intent against Institute Football Club's
:08:18. > :08:20.Niall Grace outside a city centre Mr Grace sustained serious head
:08:21. > :08:24.injuries from which he Well, we now know who all
:08:25. > :08:30.the candidates will be in the Assembly election -
:08:31. > :08:33.voters go to the polls However only ninety will be returned
:08:34. > :08:45.to Stormont unlike 108 Here's our political
:08:46. > :08:56.correspondent Stephen Walker: As we have seen over the last couple
:08:57. > :09:00.of weeks this is going to be a tightly fought contest and not
:09:01. > :09:05.delete because it will be a small assembly and in this election there
:09:06. > :09:11.will be fewer candidates. The DUP have the most in this brace with 38,
:09:12. > :09:17.followed by Sinn Fein on 34. The Ulster Unionist Party around 24, and
:09:18. > :09:22.the SDLP and the Alliance, 21 each. The Green party are running a team,
:09:23. > :09:28.the TUV, 14, conservatives, 13, and People Before Profit, seven. The
:09:29. > :09:34.workers party have five candidates, the cross community labelled
:09:35. > :09:38.relative, four, the BGP and citizens independent social fault Alliance,
:09:39. > :09:44.three, and Ukip are only running one candidate. There are also 22
:09:45. > :09:49.independents in the field. So what will Stormont look like after the
:09:50. > :09:53.election? What we are electing I think is a set of MLAs who at some
:09:54. > :09:57.point will take up their seats in the assembly but most immediately
:09:58. > :10:02.are going to go into probably three weeks of initial negotiations,
:10:03. > :10:08.whether they will prove sufficient to resolve all the SU 's, the wish
:10:09. > :10:12.list of Sinn Fein, that's another matter. I don't think we will have a
:10:13. > :10:16.second election, which James Brokenshire has kind of half
:10:17. > :10:20.signalled, I think it is more likely that we will go into a period of
:10:21. > :10:25.suspension if those three weeks don't as it were resolve the
:10:26. > :10:30.outstanding issues. Last time, 27% of the candidates were women but on
:10:31. > :10:34.this occasion it has increased to 30%. There are some familiar faces
:10:35. > :10:38.stepping down including Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Katrina Ruan, and
:10:39. > :10:44.Catherine Seely, all missing from the ballot paper. The DUP Alistair
:10:45. > :10:48.Ross is standing down along with Sammy Douglas. And Ross Hussey from
:10:49. > :10:55.the UUP is not a candidate this time. As we move from six seater to
:10:56. > :10:58.five seat as there are going to be political casualties and in this
:10:59. > :11:00.election every constituency will produce a story.
:11:01. > :11:03.MPs have rejected an SDLP attempt to ensure that the Government takes
:11:04. > :11:08.on board the Good Friday Agreement during Brexit negotiations.
:11:09. > :11:11.At Westminster last night an SDLP amendment was defeated
:11:12. > :11:19.The DUP and Ulster Unionist MPs backed the Brexit bill -
:11:20. > :11:24.while the SDLP and the Independent MP Lady Hermon voted against.
:11:25. > :11:27.You're watching BBC Newsline - coming up shortly
:11:28. > :11:29.Ireland coach Joe Schmidt insists it won't be
:11:30. > :11:41.a Roman Holiday for his side in the Six Nations this weekend.
:11:42. > :11:44.The founder of a school for children with cerebral palsy has accused
:11:45. > :11:46.the Education Authority of failing its pupils.
:11:47. > :11:50.The authority doesn't provide funding to the Buddy Bear
:11:51. > :11:54.school in Dungannon, but says it sends children
:11:55. > :11:59.to schools which best meets their needs according
:12:00. > :12:15.Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith reports:
:12:16. > :12:30.Meet five-year-old Jack and his mum Joanne. He's happy, a little child,
:12:31. > :12:34.he loves music, he is of a strong personality. Jack's cerebral palsy
:12:35. > :12:38.affects his speech and movement. Elsewhere in the school,
:12:39. > :12:42.three-year-old Maeve is learning to walk. She wants to walk, she wants
:12:43. > :12:47.to do things her younger sister can do and I feel in my heart and I know
:12:48. > :12:52.that Buddy Bear will help her to achieve that. Children with cerebral
:12:53. > :12:55.palsy can go to a variety of schools depending on the severity of their
:12:56. > :13:00.condition, and the parents of the 18 pupils he, though, said there this
:13:01. > :13:04.is where they want their children to be taught, but nine-year-old Katie
:13:05. > :13:08.is the only one whose place is paid for by the education authority and
:13:09. > :13:14.that only after her father fought a long legal battle. The tribunal
:13:15. > :13:18.lasted about four, four and a half years from the time we started the
:13:19. > :13:22.statement to the resolution. Very time-consuming, very hard on the
:13:23. > :13:27.soul, trying to keep motivated and fighting on and it is frankly we got
:13:28. > :13:30.there that we got there in the end. The education board in my opinion
:13:31. > :13:34.has failed children. The a few have a parent waiting three years for a
:13:35. > :13:38.statement, and another parent going through and appear process for three
:13:39. > :13:43.debt for years, the education authority cannot be proud of that.
:13:44. > :13:45.The authorities say they take significant account of medical
:13:46. > :13:49.advice in making the decisions but Joanne has now spent two years
:13:50. > :13:53.trying to get them to pay for Jackpot like a place in the School.
:13:54. > :13:58.We still don't know what is going to be the result of the additional
:13:59. > :14:03.authority 's decision, but I want him placed in a trust. This is a
:14:04. > :14:07.story of belief, Joanne believing that Jack has the best chance of
:14:08. > :14:08.progress here, but experts on the education authority said there isn't
:14:09. > :14:15.the evidence to back that belief up Antrim Area Hospital has introduced
:14:16. > :14:17.a new system to deal with the increasing number
:14:18. > :14:19.of patients with mental health problems arriving
:14:20. > :14:20.at its Emergency department. Physical and mental health
:14:21. > :14:31.specialists work as a team to ensure vulnerable patients are detected
:14:32. > :14:33.and are offered treatment quickly. In the past four months over 1800
:14:34. > :14:36.people have been referred. Our Health correspondent
:14:37. > :14:45.Marie-Louise Connolly reports. having had mental health problems in
:14:46. > :14:49.the past? So this is a new thing for you? Tucked away from the busy
:14:50. > :14:53.emergency department a member of the mental health team talks to an
:14:54. > :15:00.extremely vulnerable patient who was found in a distressed state by the
:15:01. > :15:05.police. How long have you been feeling that you would do yourself
:15:06. > :15:09.some harm? This scheme, called raid, based as Antrim Area Hospital
:15:10. > :15:15.specifically targets patients showing signs of depression and
:15:16. > :15:20.anxiety or at suicide risk. This consultant psychiatrist is part of
:15:21. > :15:25.the 24th emergency team. -- 24 hour. We made to have priority on mental
:15:26. > :15:28.health, because it is often overlooked, and in acute hospitals
:15:29. > :15:33.particularly, so if you'd have depression that has not been picked
:15:34. > :15:37.up by the nursing staff on the acute wards, the Raid team can come and
:15:38. > :15:42.see you, and start to give you you treatment, liaise with your GP and
:15:43. > :15:46.give you the chance of recovery. In 2015, more than 6000 people turned
:15:47. > :15:50.up at emergency departments across Northern Ireland as Abe result of
:15:51. > :15:57.alcohol, drugs and perhaps by cutting themselves. The majority of
:15:58. > :16:00.those people were aged between 16-24, and according to clinicians
:16:01. > :16:04.here is the beauty of the scheme is that they are preventing a large
:16:05. > :16:09.number of those men and women from slipping through the net. Thank you
:16:10. > :16:16.for coming down to see us today, the doctors are still continuing to look
:16:17. > :16:19.after him. It is all about teamwork, doctors and nurses and social
:16:20. > :16:25.workers. That puts the right care package in place both in hospital
:16:26. > :16:33.and after discharge. Praise from the woman whose mum had been admitted
:16:34. > :16:36.for delirious. There were links between the different teams in
:16:37. > :16:40.hospital in order to get her a very quick package of care, and she was
:16:41. > :16:44.able to return home the next day. The model of care has required
:16:45. > :16:47.additional resources guy but according to both staff and
:16:48. > :16:49.patients, it is working, and that is good news for the health service.
:16:50. > :16:56.The Ireland rugby team to play Italy was named today - Stephen's here..
:16:57. > :17:01.Disappointing defeat in the opening game to Scotland but Ireland hoping
:17:02. > :17:03.to get a first win on the board. Joe Schmidt has made two changes
:17:04. > :17:08.to the starting line-up from the side that lost
:17:09. > :17:12.in Edinburgh last weekend. Prop Cian Healy comes into the front
:17:13. > :17:15.row, replacing Jack McGrath - while Ulster's Iain Henderson has
:17:16. > :17:17.a tight hamstring and so is Meanwhile, Craig Gilroy
:17:18. > :17:20.is named on the bench. Ireland returned from Scotland
:17:21. > :17:23.with a bonus point and will be hoping to get another,
:17:24. > :17:25.along with a win, from their trip to Rome,
:17:26. > :17:27.but the coach was quick today to stress they're taking nothing
:17:28. > :17:37.for granted going into this game. It's only four years ago that
:17:38. > :17:42.Ireland went to Italy and lost and so you can't get ahead of yourself
:17:43. > :17:48.when we know how combative they will be. It is also if you starts chasing
:17:49. > :17:52.you can get yourself into trouble, I think it is just important first and
:17:53. > :17:54.foremost to get the win and if we get the win, still a lots of our
:17:55. > :17:56.future is in our own hands. Both Tommy Bowe and Stuart McCloskey
:17:57. > :17:58.have been released by Ireland and will now be on the bench
:17:59. > :18:02.for Ulster's Pro12 clash South African Marcell Coetsea will
:18:03. > :18:08.make his highly-anticipated debut, starting at number eight
:18:09. > :18:11.after recovering from a knee injury Peter Nelson and Stuart Olding
:18:12. > :18:15.will also make returns from injury and go straight
:18:16. > :18:17.into the starting side. We'll have match build-up
:18:18. > :18:19.on tomorrow night's Newsline - The seven-game winning streak
:18:20. > :18:27.of the Belfast Giants came They were beaten five-one at home to
:18:28. > :18:32.the Cardiff Devils in the second-leg The Giants had started
:18:33. > :18:39.the evening with a five-four lead But that was quickly
:18:40. > :18:42.wiped out by the Devils, Cardiff advance to the final
:18:43. > :18:47.after a 9-6 win in aggregate - while Belfast will now have to focus
:18:48. > :19:00.on beating them to the We just didn't seem to get out of
:19:01. > :19:04.second gear and they were one step ahead of us all night and they were
:19:05. > :19:11.winning the battles, it was far best one, 5- for, we can't dwell on this
:19:12. > :19:13.because we are back in action on Friday and we just had to give
:19:14. > :19:15.congratulations to the Cardiff Devils and how well they played.
:19:16. > :19:19.Not their night - BUT the Giants can go top of the Elite League table
:19:20. > :19:24.if they can win tomorrow night against Dundee Stars.
:19:25. > :19:36.Games are coming thick and fast, Tara. Really cold is denied, and
:19:37. > :19:40.lots of people remarked upon bouts. Temperature is not much higher than
:19:41. > :19:43.five or 6 degrees and of course we did not have the sunshine today so
:19:44. > :19:48.it looked and felt really cold as well. If you are thinking ahead to
:19:49. > :19:51.the weekend, those brightest eyes comeback, particularly on Saturday
:19:52. > :19:54.so if you had up to the hills or mountains perhaps up went to the
:19:55. > :20:01.moors this weekend at least the clouds will clear over the mountain
:20:02. > :20:04.tops but it will stay very cold, the air overheads today really bitter
:20:05. > :20:12.and any breeze at all will make it feel extremely cold. At the night,
:20:13. > :20:17.despite the cloud, it feels cold in the breeze. Most places to stay dry
:20:18. > :20:21.but the cloud thickens up to give the odd wintry flurry so one or two
:20:22. > :20:25.patches of snow around as temperatures could fall to freezing
:20:26. > :20:31.so any random breaks in the cloud at all. Not a widespread frost
:20:32. > :20:35.tomorrow, but it will be cold and some spots of frost and ice around,
:20:36. > :20:43.and it will be another cold day as well. You need to lay up, so gloves,
:20:44. > :20:48.scarves, hats already. Temperatures at one or 2 degrees, may be low in
:20:49. > :20:52.some spots, and the odd wintry flurry here and there as well. Don't
:20:53. > :20:56.be surprised if you see some flakes of snow or a little bit of drizzle
:20:57. > :21:00.at times but lots of cloud to begin with, expecting it to brighten up
:21:01. > :21:05.from the north-east as the day goes on. It should cheer up a bit.
:21:06. > :21:09.Temperatures still struggle in the cold breeze but some sunshine
:21:10. > :21:13.everywhere, just about, by the end of the day. Clear skies hang on
:21:14. > :21:17.tomorrow night, leading to a widespread frost, so looking at -4,
:21:18. > :21:20.minus five degrees come in the countryside. Heading to the Ulster
:21:21. > :21:25.match tomorrow evening? Be prepared for it to be cold, temperatures
:21:26. > :21:29.above freezing at that point may be. On Saturday a frosty start but
:21:30. > :21:33.thankfully a nice bright start to the weekend, dry, with some
:21:34. > :21:37.sunshine, still cold, but it will look and feel a bit better compared
:21:38. > :21:43.to be cloudy skies. Anyone lucky enough to go to the Italy match in
:21:44. > :21:49.Rome, 14 degrees there, much nicer, feeling quite spring like I'm sure.
:21:50. > :21:52.Sunday, one of the wintry flurries, but most of the weekend will be dry.
:21:53. > :22:00.Our late summary is at half past ten.
:22:01. > :22:02.The bps says it won't prosecute a man arrested over Kingsmill
:22:03. > :22:04.massacre. You can also keep in contact with us
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