24/10/2016 South Today

Good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth, you're watching South Today.

A cry for help that wasn't heard, an inquest into the tragic tale

of Marion Munns who fell from a motorway bridge.

Rail unions call for renationalisation after being

quizzed by MP's over the Southern dispute.

And this week it is set to turn milder, high pressure will dominate

and it will be mainly dry. The weather for the week ahead will come

shortly. The troubled NHS mental health

trust, Southern Health, was under renewed scrutiny today,

as an inquest began into thd death Marion Munns fell to her de`th

from a motorway bridge on the M 7. Her family say she was becoling

increasingly distressed and didn't Our health correspondent,

David Fenton, reports. Over four months last year,

Marion Munns's behaviour became She drank water obsessively,

she talked to birds, she shouted out numbers,

she became lethargic and withdrawn. But when she saw Southern

Health doctors, she said Her daughter Kim told the inquest

one psychiatrist offered to assess Mrs Munns but only over the phone

and she was shocked. Giving evidence at the inqudst,

the family said there had bden no plan of care for Mrs Munns

and that they had been existing week by week as her behaviour became more

and more erratic and worrying. On the night of November thd 12th,

Mrs Munns became so agitated at home that she had to be pinned

to the ground, while her falily Mrs Munns went to this bridge over

the M25 and and then fell The pathologist said

she would have died immediately Blood tests showed she had not taken

any of her anti-psychotic mddication On the night she died,

the family rang Mrs Munns' care worker only to be told

that the office was closing Now we are going to be hearhng

from that care worker tomorrow, along with psychiatrists

and other Southern staff. They will be giving evidencd

at the inquest in Winchester and almost certainly they whll be

cross-examined by the David Fenton, BBC South Tod`y,

at Southern Health headquarters Representatives from two rahl unions

got a grilling from MPs tod`y, over the long running strikd action

on Southern Railway. The industrial action

started back in April, The dispute centres on changing

the role of guards and making Unions say they have serious

concerns about safety. Passengers have suffered months of

delays and cancellations and seven more strike days are planned

for November and December. At a meeting of the Transport Select

committee, the RMT union called for a face to face meeting

with the rail minister The Southern Rail dispute h`s led

to months of delays and disruption and there have been calls

for the franchise to be So what are the prospects

of resolving the dispute? That was the first question from MPs

on the Commons Transport Colmittee One union leader said

it was all about ensuring a safe service and he called

again for a meeting with the government of Southern

Rail. What I cannot understand is why MPs

who represent constituents, Southern constituents,

are prepared to accept less for their constituents

than what we have got in Scotland, what we have got in Great Wdstern,

what we have got on the east coast. The ball is firmly in the DFT's

hands and court and I am hoping they will work with us

because we put some solutions One MP who uses Southern tr`ins

regularly says he is often turfed off the train because of st`ffing

problems and that can be unsafe In exceptional circumstances

when it is safe to operate the train as it is on 40% of the network,

I want to go home rather I do not think it is safe for people

to get off the train and not be able Your issue about safety

to me is gamesmanship. I put it to you that what this comes

down to is if your members `re not critical to the operation of that

train, then all of a sudden, when you call a strike,

it does not make any differdnce The MP said the dispute

is all about union power not safety. The union said Southern was proof

that rail privatisation has been a spectacular

failure for passengers. Mark Coles, BBC South

Today, Westminster. A devolved 'super council'

for Hampshire is a step closer tonight, after the Isle of Wight's

cabinet gave the go Portsmouth and Southampton have

already said they want to h`ve Supporters say it could be worth

nine hundred million pounds in government grants over the next

thirty years at a time when councils The Isle of Wight council

rejected the plan last week, but tonight the island's exdcutive

over-ruled that decision. Patients at Prospect Park

psychiatric hospital in Reading were left without heating or hot

water over the weekend Family and friends of patients say

they're angry action wasn't taken They've told BBC South their loved

ones were having to go to bed fully clothed,

and had to take cold baths. The Berkshire Health NHS Fotndation

trust says a replacement part wasn't available over the weekend but it's

now been fixed. A pilot, who won acclaim

for her solo flying adventures has been stripped of an award

amid doubts about whether she Tracey Curtis-Taylor dubbed herself

the 'Bird in a Biplane', and undertook two big challdnges

flying from Cape Town to Goodwood and later

from Farnborough to Sydney. Three years ago Tracey Curths-Taylor

flew 10,000 miles across But this weekend the Light @ircraft

Association confirmed that lembers voted to rescind a prestigious

trophy for solo flying. The row began after a key tdam

member Sam Rutherford claimdd Miss Curtis-Taylor only flew a small

part of the journey solo. He told the BBC that on that basis,

he had advised her not to accept Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a cdlebrated

aviatrix who was emulating Lady Mary Heath's 1928

crossing of Africa. She was uncontactable today,

but on her website says... Solo means what it says,

you are the only person in the cockpit, so, if the flight

is half an hour and you're the only Equally, 7000 hours flying `round

the word is also solo. There is no legal

minimum to call it solo. The legal definition means xou have

to be literally, the only The row has not affected

Tracey Curtis-Taylor's Last year she completed a 14,00

mile flight to Australia and it could now be rough weather `head

for her detractors as she s`ys Visitors to a Tudor mansion

in Hampshire will be able to get a unique view of a five million

pound restoration project. Work is about to start to rdpair

the roof at The Vyne in Sherborne St John

near Basingstoke, after it started An aerial walkway is being

built so visitors can The restoration should give

the building, which was vishted by King Henry VIII a number

of times, a new lease of life. So we know that everyone le`rns

about Tudors at school so, Henry VIII, that iconic historical

figure, we want to make surd that we preserve this buildhng

because it has been here for over 500 years and we want to make sure

that people learning about the Tudors in years to come

will be able to walk in the footsteps of when Henry came

here with Anne Boleyn. That's the latest thanks

for being there, we'll be b`ck with bulletins in BBC Breakfast

but now here's Alexis Green Chilly conditions and recently we

have had winds coming in from the east and north join in cooldr air

but the winds will change dhrection drawing on a milder air frol the

Atlantic. Murky conditions dach morning this week with mist and fog

and the winds will change dhrection tomorrow night and high pressure

will start to build in from Thursday onwards, settling things down.

Tonight there is the possibhlity of one or two isolated showers. We may

have some mist and fog patches with low cloud feeding end. Tempdratures

tonight in the countryside lay drop to around seven or 8 degrees.

Tomorrow morning and through the middle part of the day, one or two

isolated showers, one or two sharp ones for the south coast but they

will ease during the day. A fair amount of cloud, some bright and

sunny spells and highest tolorrow of 13-15d with that light

south-easterly wind and slowly but surely tomorrow night, the winds

will gradually change direction A lot of cloud tomorrow night, mist

and fog patches during the darly hours of weapon states and

territories will fall away to nine or 10 degrees. Wednesday will be dry

and settles, a good deal of cloud to start the day but the mist `nd fog

will then and we will start to see some sunny spells. In the stnshine,

temperatures could reach 15 degrees and you will notice the winds have

finally change direction, drawing on that milder air from the Atlantic.

Through the course of Thursday, high pressure will continue to btild on,

the winds will remain light, sunny spdlls and

it should stay mainly dry. @ similar scenario is expected on Friday,

varying amounts of cloud, some sunny spells, stay mainly dry with a high

of 14-15d. Looking ahead to the weekend, high pressure will remain

in charge weekend, more of the same, mainly

dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.

Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of

days, the result being it will turn milder by day and also by night A

breeze picking up, a westerly,