:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth, you're watching South Today.
:00:00. > :00:09.A cry for help that wasn't heard, an inquest into the tragic tale
:00:10. > :00:13.of Marion Munns who fell from a motorway bridge.
:00:14. > :00:15.Rail unions call for renationalisation after being
:00:16. > :00:24.quizzed by MP's over the Southern dispute.
:00:25. > :00:30.And this week it is set to turn milder, high pressure will dominate
:00:31. > :00:32.and it will be mainly dry. The weather for the week ahead will come
:00:33. > :00:36.shortly. The troubled NHS mental health
:00:37. > :00:38.trust, Southern Health, was under renewed scrutiny today,
:00:39. > :00:41.as an inquest began into thd death Marion Munns fell to her de`th
:00:42. > :00:47.from a motorway bridge on the M 7. Her family say she was becoling
:00:48. > :00:49.increasingly distressed and didn't Our health correspondent,
:00:50. > :00:58.David Fenton, reports. Over four months last year,
:00:59. > :01:00.Marion Munns's behaviour became She drank water obsessively,
:01:01. > :01:06.she talked to birds, she shouted out numbers,
:01:07. > :01:11.she became lethargic and withdrawn. But when she saw Southern
:01:12. > :01:14.Health doctors, she said Her daughter Kim told the inquest
:01:15. > :01:23.one psychiatrist offered to assess Mrs Munns but only over the phone
:01:24. > :01:26.and she was shocked. Giving evidence at the inqudst,
:01:27. > :01:29.the family said there had bden no plan of care for Mrs Munns
:01:30. > :01:32.and that they had been existing week by week as her behaviour became more
:01:33. > :01:39.and more erratic and worrying. On the night of November thd 12th,
:01:40. > :01:43.Mrs Munns became so agitated at home that she had to be pinned
:01:44. > :01:46.to the ground, while her falily Mrs Munns went to this bridge over
:01:47. > :01:58.the M25 and and then fell The pathologist said
:01:59. > :02:03.she would have died immediately Blood tests showed she had not taken
:02:04. > :02:10.any of her anti-psychotic mddication On the night she died,
:02:11. > :02:18.the family rang Mrs Munns' care worker only to be told
:02:19. > :02:21.that the office was closing Now we are going to be hearhng
:02:22. > :02:26.from that care worker tomorrow, along with psychiatrists
:02:27. > :02:30.and other Southern staff. They will be giving evidencd
:02:31. > :02:33.at the inquest in Winchester and almost certainly they whll be
:02:34. > :02:35.cross-examined by the David Fenton, BBC South Tod`y,
:02:36. > :02:45.at Southern Health headquarters Representatives from two rahl unions
:02:46. > :02:47.got a grilling from MPs tod`y, over the long running strikd action
:02:48. > :02:52.on Southern Railway. The industrial action
:02:53. > :02:54.started back in April, The dispute centres on changing
:02:55. > :03:01.the role of guards and making Unions say they have serious
:03:02. > :03:13.concerns about safety. Passengers have suffered months of
:03:14. > :03:15.delays and cancellations and seven more strike days are planned
:03:16. > :03:17.for November and December. At a meeting of the Transport Select
:03:18. > :03:20.committee, the RMT union called for a face to face meeting
:03:21. > :03:23.with the rail minister The Southern Rail dispute h`s led
:03:24. > :03:30.to months of delays and disruption and there have been calls
:03:31. > :03:33.for the franchise to be So what are the prospects
:03:34. > :03:37.of resolving the dispute? That was the first question from MPs
:03:38. > :03:40.on the Commons Transport Colmittee One union leader said
:03:41. > :03:46.it was all about ensuring a safe service and he called
:03:47. > :03:48.again for a meeting with the government of Southern
:03:49. > :03:52.Rail. What I cannot understand is why MPs
:03:53. > :03:54.who represent constituents, Southern constituents,
:03:55. > :03:56.are prepared to accept less for their constituents
:03:57. > :03:58.than what we have got in Scotland, what we have got in Great Wdstern,
:03:59. > :04:06.what we have got on the east coast. The ball is firmly in the DFT's
:04:07. > :04:10.hands and court and I am hoping they will work with us
:04:11. > :04:12.because we put some solutions One MP who uses Southern tr`ins
:04:13. > :04:20.regularly says he is often turfed off the train because of st`ffing
:04:21. > :04:25.problems and that can be unsafe In exceptional circumstances
:04:26. > :04:27.when it is safe to operate the train as it is on 40% of the network,
:04:28. > :04:31.I want to go home rather I do not think it is safe for people
:04:32. > :04:36.to get off the train and not be able Your issue about safety
:04:37. > :04:39.to me is gamesmanship. I put it to you that what this comes
:04:40. > :04:43.down to is if your members `re not critical to the operation of that
:04:44. > :04:46.train, then all of a sudden, when you call a strike,
:04:47. > :04:52.it does not make any differdnce The MP said the dispute
:04:53. > :04:56.is all about union power not safety. The union said Southern was proof
:04:57. > :04:58.that rail privatisation has been a spectacular
:04:59. > :05:00.failure for passengers. Mark Coles, BBC South
:05:01. > :05:08.Today, Westminster. A devolved 'super council'
:05:09. > :05:11.for Hampshire is a step closer tonight, after the Isle of Wight's
:05:12. > :05:13.cabinet gave the go Portsmouth and Southampton have
:05:14. > :05:18.already said they want to h`ve Supporters say it could be worth
:05:19. > :05:22.nine hundred million pounds in government grants over the next
:05:23. > :05:25.thirty years at a time when councils The Isle of Wight council
:05:26. > :05:33.rejected the plan last week, but tonight the island's exdcutive
:05:34. > :05:36.over-ruled that decision. Patients at Prospect Park
:05:37. > :05:38.psychiatric hospital in Reading were left without heating or hot
:05:39. > :05:41.water over the weekend Family and friends of patients say
:05:42. > :05:47.they're angry action wasn't taken They've told BBC South their loved
:05:48. > :05:53.ones were having to go to bed fully clothed,
:05:54. > :05:56.and had to take cold baths. The Berkshire Health NHS Fotndation
:05:57. > :05:59.trust says a replacement part wasn't available over the weekend but it's
:06:00. > :06:05.now been fixed. A pilot, who won acclaim
:06:06. > :06:07.for her solo flying adventures has been stripped of an award
:06:08. > :06:10.amid doubts about whether she Tracey Curtis-Taylor dubbed herself
:06:11. > :06:18.the 'Bird in a Biplane', and undertook two big challdnges
:06:19. > :06:20.flying from Cape Town to Goodwood and later
:06:21. > :06:22.from Farnborough to Sydney. Three years ago Tracey Curths-Taylor
:06:23. > :06:29.flew 10,000 miles across But this weekend the Light @ircraft
:06:30. > :06:36.Association confirmed that lembers voted to rescind a prestigious
:06:37. > :06:42.trophy for solo flying. The row began after a key tdam
:06:43. > :06:45.member Sam Rutherford claimdd Miss Curtis-Taylor only flew a small
:06:46. > :06:52.part of the journey solo. He told the BBC that on that basis,
:06:53. > :06:56.he had advised her not to accept Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a cdlebrated
:06:57. > :07:01.aviatrix who was emulating Lady Mary Heath's 1928
:07:02. > :07:06.crossing of Africa. She was uncontactable today,
:07:07. > :07:33.but on her website says... Solo means what it says,
:07:34. > :07:35.you are the only person in the cockpit, so, if the flight
:07:36. > :07:39.is half an hour and you're the only Equally, 7000 hours flying `round
:07:40. > :07:44.the word is also solo. There is no legal
:07:45. > :07:47.minimum to call it solo. The legal definition means xou have
:07:48. > :07:49.to be literally, the only The row has not affected
:07:50. > :07:53.Tracey Curtis-Taylor's Last year she completed a 14,00
:07:54. > :08:00.mile flight to Australia and it could now be rough weather `head
:08:01. > :08:03.for her detractors as she s`ys Visitors to a Tudor mansion
:08:04. > :08:13.in Hampshire will be able to get a unique view of a five million
:08:14. > :08:16.pound restoration project. Work is about to start to rdpair
:08:17. > :08:19.the roof at The Vyne in Sherborne St John
:08:20. > :08:21.near Basingstoke, after it started An aerial walkway is being
:08:22. > :08:25.built so visitors can The restoration should give
:08:26. > :08:28.the building, which was vishted by King Henry VIII a number
:08:29. > :08:34.of times, a new lease of life. So we know that everyone le`rns
:08:35. > :08:36.about Tudors at school so, Henry VIII, that iconic historical
:08:37. > :08:39.figure, we want to make surd that we preserve this buildhng
:08:40. > :08:42.because it has been here for over 500 years and we want to make sure
:08:43. > :08:45.that people learning about the Tudors in years to come
:08:46. > :08:47.will be able to walk in the footsteps of when Henry came
:08:48. > :08:52.here with Anne Boleyn. That's the latest thanks
:08:53. > :08:54.for being there, we'll be b`ck with bulletins in BBC Breakfast
:08:55. > :09:09.but now here's Alexis Green Chilly conditions and recently we
:09:10. > :09:13.have had winds coming in from the east and north join in cooldr air
:09:14. > :09:17.but the winds will change dhrection drawing on a milder air frol the
:09:18. > :09:21.Atlantic. Murky conditions dach morning this week with mist and fog
:09:22. > :09:25.and the winds will change dhrection tomorrow night and high pressure
:09:26. > :09:30.will start to build in from Thursday onwards, settling things down.
:09:31. > :09:34.Tonight there is the possibhlity of one or two isolated showers. We may
:09:35. > :09:41.have some mist and fog patches with low cloud feeding end. Tempdratures
:09:42. > :09:43.tonight in the countryside lay drop to around seven or 8 degrees.
:09:44. > :09:47.Tomorrow morning and through the middle part of the day, one or two
:09:48. > :09:53.isolated showers, one or two sharp ones for the south coast but they
:09:54. > :09:58.will ease during the day. A fair amount of cloud, some bright and
:09:59. > :10:02.sunny spells and highest tolorrow of 13-15d with that light
:10:03. > :10:06.south-easterly wind and slowly but surely tomorrow night, the winds
:10:07. > :10:11.will gradually change direction A lot of cloud tomorrow night, mist
:10:12. > :10:16.and fog patches during the darly hours of weapon states and
:10:17. > :10:20.territories will fall away to nine or 10 degrees. Wednesday will be dry
:10:21. > :10:23.and settles, a good deal of cloud to start the day but the mist `nd fog
:10:24. > :10:27.will then and we will start to see some sunny spells. In the stnshine,
:10:28. > :10:31.temperatures could reach 15 degrees and you will notice the winds have
:10:32. > :10:36.finally change direction, drawing on that milder air from the Atlantic.
:10:37. > :10:38.Through the course of Thursday, high pressure will continue to btild on,
:10:39. > :10:54.the winds will remain light, sunny spdlls and
:10:55. > :10:57.it should stay mainly dry. @ similar scenario is expected on Friday,
:10:58. > :10:59.varying amounts of cloud, some sunny spells, stay mainly dry with a high
:11:00. > :11:00.of 14-15d. Looking ahead to the weekend, high pressure will remain
:11:01. > :11:04.in charge weekend, more of the same, mainly
:11:05. > :11:09.dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.
:11:10. > :11:15.Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of
:11:16. > :11:19.days, the result being it will turn milder by day and also by night A
:11:20. > :11:20.breeze picking up, a westerly,