:00:11. > :00:14.I'm Laura Trant with the news in the South.
:00:15. > :00:17.A group set up to promote the health benefits of cold water swimming took
:00:18. > :00:20.a dose of their own medicine today when they plunged
:00:21. > :00:25.Members of Swimming Against Depression say it helps
:00:26. > :00:27.people deal with stress and gets them off
:00:28. > :00:32.The group wants to raise awareness of the benefits
:00:33. > :00:34.and eventually set up a natural health centre by the sea.
:00:35. > :00:42.It's definitely not for the faint-hearted.
:00:43. > :00:45.But the people who went for dip at Avon Beach in Mudeford today
:00:46. > :00:50.are convinced swimming in cold water really does help them tackle
:00:51. > :01:09.How was that? Amazing. It is called today but it
:01:10. > :01:12.was really good. Amy Moule says she set up the group
:01:13. > :01:23.Swimming Against Depression after If I wake up in the morning and I
:01:24. > :01:31.have had a bad night and bad dreams and feel low and think I need to
:01:32. > :01:35.change it, I get into the sea and feel better almost immediately.
:01:36. > :01:40.Whether you are suffering from depression or not, even slight
:01:41. > :01:42.anxiety, if you can do this you can do anything.
:01:43. > :01:45.Some of Amy's inspiration came from a BBC programme called
:01:46. > :01:48.The Dr Who Gave Up Drugs - Dr Chris Van Tulleken looked at
:01:49. > :01:50.research at Portsmouth University which analyses the effect of low
:01:51. > :02:08.You are now experiencing what every swimmer experiences. It releases
:02:09. > :02:09.adrenaline and deals with the stress hormones.
:02:10. > :02:13.to swim in ice cold water to help her stop using
:02:14. > :02:23.I was like, that's brilliant. I want to do that and get other people
:02:24. > :02:28.doing that. Today, some people just
:02:29. > :02:31.put a toe in the water but Amy is hoping many of them
:02:32. > :02:34.will soon become regular swimmers. Two men have been arrested after
:02:35. > :02:36.a spate of knife-point robberies Four incidents happened
:02:37. > :02:39.on Friday and yesterday in the Paulsgrove area -
:02:40. > :02:41.cash and mobile phones A robbery at a Spar shop nearby,
:02:42. > :02:45.on Wednesday evening Two men in their 40s,
:02:46. > :02:49.both from Portsmouth, Ambulances services in the south had
:02:50. > :02:54.a busier than usual New Year. South East Coast Ambulance Service
:02:55. > :02:57.warned yesterday that it was struggling to get to some patients
:02:58. > :03:00.in the required time It says crews worked flat out,
:03:01. > :03:07.focusing on life-threatening calls. They attended 300 more
:03:08. > :03:10.incidents this New Year's Eve Police are continuing to appeal
:03:11. > :03:16.for witnesses following several crashes on the A40 in Witney in fog
:03:17. > :03:20.on Wednesday morning. A 54-year-old woman died
:03:21. > :03:22.when the car she was After another collision,
:03:23. > :03:27.a 56-year-old woman, left her car and was then hit
:03:28. > :03:29.by another vehicle. Three quarters of passengers
:03:30. > :03:33.on the Southern rail network say they don't support ongoing strike
:03:34. > :03:37.action, according to a new survey carried out by the Association
:03:38. > :03:41.of British Commuters. Today is the second of the latest
:03:42. > :03:47.three day walk-out by conductors. But the Association -
:03:48. > :03:49.formed by passengers - argues that its members are more
:03:50. > :03:51.angry about ongoing disruption on the network
:03:52. > :03:53.which they say began A lot of people do
:03:54. > :03:57.support the unions as what they are
:03:58. > :04:00.trying to do They just find it
:04:01. > :04:03.difficult to support the strike action, particularly
:04:04. > :04:05.with the message coming that all of this that is happening
:04:06. > :04:11.is because of strikes. Several thousand people saw
:04:12. > :04:14.in New Year in the open air last night in the centre
:04:15. > :04:22.of Wimborne Minster in Dorset. The historical re-enactment group
:04:23. > :04:25.the Wimborne Militia fired a salute at the stroke of midnight,
:04:26. > :04:31.before dancing began. And on the Dorset coast thousands
:04:32. > :04:33.of people watched the annual A dozen teams braved the chilly seas
:04:34. > :04:38.to race in homemade rafts We have had a lot of rain
:04:39. > :04:52.through New Year's Day but as we head through this weekend it
:04:53. > :04:55.will actually be a largely dry one. It will start off quite chilly,
:04:56. > :04:57.particularly through It does turn milder as we head
:04:58. > :05:02.towards next weekend. We have got the last
:05:03. > :05:05.of that rain clearing down towards the south coast
:05:06. > :05:08.but for the far south and the Isle of Wight it is going to
:05:09. > :05:11.stay quite damp through tonight. Further north with largely clear
:05:12. > :05:14.skies it is going to We could see a touch
:05:15. > :05:17.of frost rurally. Most towns and cities hovering
:05:18. > :05:19.that bit above freezing. Tomorrow, any cloud and dampness
:05:20. > :05:22.will ease quickly and it is Dry and bright with
:05:23. > :05:25.a lot of sunshine. Perhaps a bit more cloud out
:05:26. > :05:28.towards the east but for most more sunshine than we have
:05:29. > :05:30.seen this weekend. You will notice the difference
:05:31. > :05:35.temperature-wise. It will struggle at around
:05:36. > :05:37.five or six degrees. Then we are in for
:05:38. > :05:40.a fairly chilly night Some towns and cities
:05:41. > :05:44.could get below freezing. We start to see more cloud pushing
:05:45. > :05:49.in towards the end of the week but it should be dry
:05:50. > :06:13.until next weekend. Good evening. Well, to Bake Off
:06:14. > :06:18.2017, the weather has been fairly mixed, wet and cloudy in the South,
:06:19. > :06:22.colder but clearer further north. This was taken in County Down
:06:23. > :06:27.earlier in the day, plenty of sunshine there, but with clear skies
:06:28. > :06:33.by day, a cold nights tonight. That will fill the south across the
:06:34. > :06:36.country, the cloud and rain clearing through the early hours of Monday
:06:37. > :06:41.morning across that area. This is how it is looking first thing, cold
:06:42. > :06:43.and frosty, colder than this in the countryside, still some wintry
:06:44. > :06:48.showers for northern Scotland into the north-east of England, so a
:06:49. > :06:54.chance of icy stretches first thing on untreated surfaces. Through the
:06:55. > :06:55.day, Monday is looking quite decent, mostly dry with wintry sunshine and