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of the German flag in tribute to those who lost their lives | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The public is being warned not to visit patients | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
at Altnagelvin Hospital unless absolutely necessary | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
because of a major outbreak of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The virus has also forced a large hotel in County Cavan | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Our Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, reports. | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
It couldn't have come worse time for this popular hotel in County Cavan. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
During what must be their busiest time, the hotel said it has no | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
option but to close it was. In a statement on behalf of the hotel, | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
the health Executive in the Republic said the Hotel closed on the 19th of | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
December two to an increased incidence of Noura virus infection | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
amongst residents, staff and patrons of the hotel. It said public and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
environmental health staff met with hotel management and agreed | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
additional measures, including a full deep clean of the hotel, would | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
be required. The Health and Safety Executive and hotel management said | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
they regret the inconvenience the closure would cause but considered | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
the action necessary to safeguard public health. Noura virus, which | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
causes diarrhoea and vomiting, is one of the most common stomach bugs | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
in the UK and is unusually prevalent in Northern Ireland for this time of | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
year. While it is extremely unpleasant, it is highly infectious. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
So much so that five wards have been temporarily closed at Altnagelvin | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Hospital. The spike in cases is worrying. This is the highest | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
incidence of this disease we have experience for many years and it | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
leads to problems with patient access to services and patient | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
output. Patients are suffering within the hospital and staff are | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
suffering. This means we have a downturn in staff levels, which | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
means care for patients is increasingly difficult. Still | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
sitting around doing nothing? I am sick. While there is nothing funny | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
about this so-called Winter vomiting bug, this health video advises the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
public that if they are sick, not to visit patients. Some trusts have had | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
to cancel operations and with the party season now in full swing, the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
current surge in cases could get worse before it gets any better. As | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
there is no cure, the best advice is to let it run its course. According | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
to the public health agency, to avoid dehydration, drink plenty of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
fluids, remember to wash your hands frequently and, most importantly, | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
rest up. A 45-year-old man caught | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
at a bomb-making factory on a County Fermanagh farm has been | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
given an 11 years prison sentence. Barry Francis Petticrew will spend | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
a further three years on licence. This is the forum where police found | :02:59. | :03:15. | |
equipment with the potential to make one of the biggest bombs ever used | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
in Northern Ireland. When officers searched these premises featuring an | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
undercover operation in 2014, they discovered ammunition, pipes, timer | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
units and large quantities of fertilisers. Barry Pettigrew was | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
spotted leaving some of these items. The man, who is originally from | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Belfast, realised he was being watched, he tried to escape across | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the countryside. When court he told police I am not involved in | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
terrorism, this house belongs to a friend of mine. He later admitted | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
the three charges against him. Police say many of the components | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
seized are used by terrorist groups, the pedigree denied being linked to | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
any organisation. He said he was pressurised into his actions. George | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
Gordon care QC said the find was linked to dissident republican | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
activity and the farm was a bomb making factory. He described the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
suspect as a man who allowed himself to be associated with dissident | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
republicans, some of whom may have intended to use the deadly arsenal. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Sentenced to 11 years in jail and a further three on licence, he gave | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the thumbs up signal to supporters in the gallery. The judge asked for | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the items to be destroyed police say removing the terrorist Hall has | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
prevented bloodshed, loss of life and consequent heartache. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
The Prime Minister says other EU member states are well aware | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
of the sensitivities of arrangements on the border after the UK | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
She was giving evidence to a Committee of MPs. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Earlier this evening our Political Editor, Mark Devenport, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Well, Theresa May, was answering questions from this Liaison | :04:58. | :05:09. | |
Committee and the charity Northern Ireland affairs committee asked | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
about Brexit and Northern Ireland. She repeated what has been a | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
government mantra, the government doesn't want to see a return to the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
borders of the past and she said Naidu did Dublin. Mr Robinson said | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
this isn't about London and Dublin, it is about the wider EU. Other | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
member states are very well aware of the sensitivity of the issue in | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
relation to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Ireland and want a solution that works for both sides. The continuing | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
fallout from the chaotic scenes yesterday to do with the renewable | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
heat incentive scheme. What has happened today? The Speaker of the | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
Stormont Assembly road to MLAs last night explaining that he understood | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
their frustration about those chaotic scenes but he explained his | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
legal advice was that if there had been a joint request from the first | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
and Deputy First Minister is for Arlene Foster to make her statement | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
he couldn't stop unless he got a joint rescinding of that request. A | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
degree of logic but that didn't stop the criticism. The former deputy | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
speaker contrasted the speaker's performance with that of his | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
predecessor. He said he failed to rise above the shambles and there | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
was criticism from Eileen Bell, an alliance MLA, she was speaker of the | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
transitional Assembly a decade ago. I was very disappointed, horrified | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
at the whole process. The members, none of them were sure what was | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
going to happen. The Speaker, when he came in and took the chair, it | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
looked like he didn't know what would happen. The one thing I know, | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
even though it was a transitional Assembly, the one thing I know is | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
you have to to beat the speaker, the Speaker has to control everything. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
When it comes to the controversial scheme itself, the finance and | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
economy ministers are trying to limit the costs of the skin. I | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
assume that as a matter of urgency? You would assume so. We won't get | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the full details until January. Arlene Foster has said she hopes | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
that at least half of this projected ?400 million loss over 20 years can | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
be recouped. The finance minister, using Twitter, as he does, said he | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
met today with the economy minister to ensure robust action is taken to | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
minimise losses and a steward of the public finances he will ensure that | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
any plan to close RHI stacks up and brings this sorry episode to a | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
close. The scheme was closed down in February, this kind of plan to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
minimise losses should have been put in place long before now. | :08:00. | :08:00. | |
Stormont spent more than ?10 million on agency workers in | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
the Northern Ireland Civil Service at a time when it was | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
More than 3,300 civil servants left under the voluntary exit scheme. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
But during that time hundreds of agency workers were hired, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Details were released by the Department of Finance | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
The department said it did not know if some people who took | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
redundancy packages returned to the Civil Service | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
as agency workers but said it 'is permissible under the rules'. | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
The Police have recovered a gun from a house in south Belfast. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Construction workers, who had been refurbishing | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
the property on Annadale Crescent, discovered the firearm yesterday. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Further police searches were carried out this afternoon. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Northern Ireland Water has appealed to the public not to throw leftover | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
food or cooking oil down the kitchen sink or toilet. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
?5 million has been spent in the past two years dealing | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
with thousands of blockages in our sewers. | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Their main concern is fatbergs as Helen Jones reports. | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
You don't have to poke around too long to find this. Lumps of | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
congealed fat and waste which clog up our sewers. Northern Ireland | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
water wants to keep a lid on it. Everyone is putting their dinner in | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
the offing, getting ready for the festive activities and in houses | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
they are cooking large meat joints and the like. There is a lot of | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
waste of that, fat, oil and grease that occasionally people put into | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
the sewer, not realising the danger, the consequences. A fatberg, when | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
the grease enters at the sooner it is in a liquid form. When it | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
solidifies and gathers inappropriate material down the sewer, it can | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
cause a blockage. Over time that can get bigger and bigger and you can | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
get them up to a couple of metres in diameter which comes like a large | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
rock, a large obstruction which has to be cut out. Lived long enough you | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
could be dealing with this. A 15 tonne fatberg the size of a | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
double-decker bus in the sewers of London. If you are of a delicate | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
disposition or you are having your dinner, you may want to look away | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
momentarily. This is what happens when your dreams get clogged up. It | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
is not nice. It is a prop. I wouldn't be this close if it wasn't. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Here is a timely message song in the style of Mariah Carey. All we want | :10:37. | :10:50. | |
for Christmas is clean sewers. We will try to make his Christmas wish | :10:51. | :10:51. | |
come true. Ice hockey and the Belfast Giants | :10:52. | :10:52. | |
are through to the Challenge Cup Semi Final after beating | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
on the Manchester Storm The Giants won with a goal | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
in overtime to win Looking ahead to the rest | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
of the week on BBC Newsline and we have three children's | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
choirs singing Christmas Now the weather forecast | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
with Geoff Maskell and we're Good evening and welcome to a | :11:08. | :11:55. | |
roller-coaster week of weather. We had at temperatures of -5 this | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
morning, heavy rain this evening and overnight at the start of wintry | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
showers that will set the tone for the next 48 hours. All of that | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
before a weather warning for one of the busiest travel days of the | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
holiday period. First, a little pause after the rain clears out of | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
the East, before the start of the wintry showers that will set the | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
tone for the next couple of days. It will picture with a very cold | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
breeze. The shows are coming straight out of the Arctic. They are | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
called. A mix of hail and thunder over high ground, sleet and snow as | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
well. Some brightness between showers but it is cold comfort with | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
temperatures between four and 5 degrees and the wind factor. We are | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
in that shall re-sown with the gale force winds coming in and across the | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
North. A camera picture across central England and Wales with | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
warmer temperatures under the rain across the South. For us, no such | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
warmth. Temperatures really know. An ice risk as we go overnight into | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Thursday and the wind never drops off as those wintry showers continue | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
to be driven in through the day on Thursday. Not quite the intensity, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
but not feeling very nice. Then we get to the end of the weekend storm | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Barbara will work her way in and she will bring costs of up to 70 miles | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
an hour as we go through the main part of the travel day on Friday. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
For that reason, the Met office has issued a severe weather warning. If | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
you have any travel flexibility, you might want to travel on Thursday or | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
Saturday, rather than Friday. Our next BBC Newsline is at six | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
twenty five in the morning | :13:33. | :13:35. |