Western Health Trust may close all its care homes

The Western Health Trust is proposing to close all its residential care homes, the BBC has learned.

It follows similar moves by the Northern and Southern health trusts, which announced last week they have decided to close the homes they run.

The homes under threat are Rectory Field and Willow Street, both Londonderry, and Thackeray Place in Limavady and Strabane's Green Field.

BBC NI Health and Social Affairs Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports.