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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
A woman from Coleraine has won a landmark legal case over | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
the pension rights of unmarried couples in the public sector. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Denise Brewster was denied payments from her late partner's pension | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
After today's ruling, she will now receive that money. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Denise Brewster had lived with her partner | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
In the early hours of Boxing Day 2009, Lenny died suddenly, aged 43 - | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
just two days after the couple had become engaged. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Mr McMullan had paid into a pension scheme for 15 years | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
But Denise was denied a survivor's pension as the couple | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
were cohabiting and not married - but she didn't give up. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
We planned for our future, we planned for our death, | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
we planned to grow old together and I think this case was about | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
fighting for us and fighting for what we were to each other. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
The Local Government Pension scheme that Mr McMullan paid into allowed | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
a surviving partner to be paid a pension in certain circumstances. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
One of those circumstances was that Mr McMullan would have filled in | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
a nomination form indicating that Denise was to receive his pension | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
if he died - but there was no trace of this form | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Denise argued against this and today the Supreme Court in London | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
We decided that no justification for the interference was shown and | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
that therefore refusing this pension was unlawful discrimination. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
We say she is entitled to receive her pension and | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
the nomination requirement should no longer apply. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
As it went on, you realise you're fighting for other families | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
who have also been wrongly treated through these flawed pension schemes | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
and I think when you know in your gut and your heart that | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
you're making the right decision, you have to just go with it | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
and I know Lenny will be looking down on me and saying, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
The Attorney General has said he may take a case which challenges | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
the legality of the entire Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
John Larkin told a judge he is reflecting on whether to bring | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
the case against the Department for the Economy about a failure | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
to put the non-domestic scheme before the full Executive | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
His intervention came as boiler owners cleared the first stage | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
in their High Court challenge to ensure lucrative payments | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
A South Armagh woman who was abused by her brother has waived her right | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
to anonymity to encourage other people in the same | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
Her abuser, Gavin Paul Ferguson from Forkhill, was given a two-year | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Linda gets a hug from her three-year-old daughter. | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
Her own childhood was initially happy. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Linda was fostered and then adopted when she was 14 months old. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
I remember being this wee half Indian baby with big brown eyes | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
and I was put into Little Miss competitions, Little Miss Forkhill, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Little Miss Slieve Gullion, and I won them all and then | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
I suppose that childhood was short lived and everybody from the outside | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
From the age of nine she was abused by her brother, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
The abuse continued and then I met my partner and he | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
asked me one day if something happened and I told him. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
A life-changing event was the key to her reporting | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
I had my wee girl and something changed. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
I remember looking into her eyes and thinking, if anyone ever | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
hurt you, I will protect you with all my life, and I suppose | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
that's the reason I went forward, because my daughter gave me | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the courage to do it, and it's the best thing I ever did. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
I will thank her some day when she reads the paper | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
Linda has waived her right to anonymity to encourage others | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
who are being abused to come forward. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
I knew that my face and my name would be out there about being this | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
victim or survivor of sexual abuse but I felt it was so important | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
to move on for me and for other women and men and whoever has been | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
a victim of abuse to feel brave to come forward. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
The last couple of years have been tough and I am so thankful | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
for my partner and my kids and my partner's family because | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
they've stuck by me and that's what a family is, | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Details of organisations offering information and support | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
with sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
or you can call for free at any time to hear recorded information | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
The inquest into the death of a 22-year-old man | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
who was found in the grounds of the Ulster Hospital | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
has heard conflicting evidence about the way he was cared for. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
James Fenton's body lay undiscovered for ten weeks after he | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
climbed over the fence of a mental health unit in July 2010. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
How was 22-year-old James Fenton cared for at the Ulster Hospital? | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
And how was he able to leave the smoking area | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
The inquest heard that Professor Seena Fazel | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
of Oxford University wrote a report suggesting the South Eastern Trust's | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
He thought James should have been diagnosed as clinically depressed, | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
and put on a high state of observation | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
so he was always accompanied - and probably could | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Professor Fazel gives evidence tomorrow. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
But two other senior psychiatrists giving evidence | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Dr Neta Chada from the nearby Southern Trust agreed | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
with the diagnosis made by the junior doctor | :06:34. | :06:34. | |
who spoke with James at length, and with the level | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Another psychiatrist had the same opinion. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
That was the South Eastern Trust's own Director of Mental Health, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
But he went on to describe Ward 27 at the Ulster, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
and the eight attempts by patients to leave it via the smoking area | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
in the year before James' disappearance. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Dr Quigley agreed that Ward 27 is | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Dr Chada called the smoking area "grim" and | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
"not appropriate at all", but added, "We're not building | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
In fact, it's five years since the Trust presented | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
the Department of Health with a business case for | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
But then, it's almost seven years since James went missing, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
and his family still knows neither the cause nor | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
228 candidates will contest the Assembly election next month - | :07:27. | :07:38. | |
Only 90 will be returned to Stormont compared to | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Voters with the largest number of candidates to choose from | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
are in West Tyrone, East Londonderry and East Antrim. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
The constituency with the fewest is Newry and Armagh. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
A European Arrest Warrant has been issued for a suspect charged | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
in connection with the murder of David Black. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
The prison officer was killed on his way to work in | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
40-year-old Damien Joseph McLaughlin, from Kilmascally Road | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
near Ardboe in County Tyrone, was due to stand trial this month | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Gorgeous day today, blue skies, sunshine and light winds. We will | :08:16. | :08:32. | |
still have clear skies for a while tonight but the breeze will pick up | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
where some cloud from the West so it will not be as cold but it will stay | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
mostly dry, tomorrow morning any frost will be more patchy so not as | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
sharp but it will feel cold due to this south-easterly breeze and there | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
will not be as much sunshine tomorrow with large areas of cloud | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
at times. And icy start across the East of Britain with some sleet and | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
snow flurries over eastern Scotland and North East England, perhaps as | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
far as East Anglia and London. Further west it's dry with some | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
brightness across Northern Ireland and the Republic, temperatures | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
tomorrow afternoon down onto Dave and it will feel cold in the breeze | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
but there will still be a bit brightness and it will be mostly | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
dry. The drive but cold weather continues into Friday, still that | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
cold breeze and temperatures not much higher than three or four so | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
it's getting colder, quite a lot of cloud on Friday will make it cold as | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
well. The dry cold weather continues into the weekend, one or two wintry | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
flurries but most places stayed dry and there will be a little sunshine | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
from time to time but also some frost. | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :10:01. | :10:03. |