:00:08. > :00:10.Good evening, I'm Edward Sault with the news in the south.
:00:11. > :00:13.A 40-year-old woman has died after falling from a third floor
:00:14. > :00:25.It happened at 9.40 this morning at Clarendon House
:00:26. > :00:28.The woman was taken to Southampton General Hospital
:00:29. > :00:32.Meanwhile, a woman in her twenties is in a critical condition
:00:33. > :00:34.after falling from a block of flats in Southampton.
:00:35. > :00:37.The woman was discovered on the ground by police
:00:38. > :00:39.at Mede House in Salisbury Street yesterday morning.
:00:40. > :00:41.Hampshire Police say they're not linking the two
:00:42. > :00:47.A Royal Navy warship based in Portsmouth has rescued 14 sailors
:00:48. > :00:50.after they became stranded in the Atlantic ocean.
:00:51. > :00:54.The Clyde Challenger was returning to the UK when strong winds
:00:55. > :00:58.HMS Dragon was diverted 500 miles and reached the yacht
:00:59. > :01:03.She provided what's been described as "life-saving
:01:04. > :01:09.assistance" to the 14 sailors - 13 of whom were British.
:01:10. > :01:11.We got hit with a wave which knocked us over.
:01:12. > :01:15.Basically the top of the mast hit the water and snapped.
:01:16. > :01:18.The crew just did what we are trained to do.
:01:19. > :01:24.It was quite a big swell so every time the boat went away,
:01:25. > :01:27.we'd lose sight of it before we could see what was going
:01:28. > :01:31.on with our own boat, so it was really quite rough.
:01:32. > :01:34.A woman from Sussex has been given a 15 month sentence
:01:35. > :01:38.after threatening to kill horses at a yard in Shoreham.
:01:39. > :01:41.Kirsty Geoghegan, who's 25 and from Hove, tried to blackmail
:01:42. > :01:46.stable owners at Buddies Yard into paying her ?5000.
:01:47. > :01:49.The horses had previously had their tails and manes cut off
:01:50. > :01:54.The stable owners say they're relieved the judge handed out
:01:55. > :02:01.Absolutely gobsmacked that she got a prison sentence but very ecstatic
:02:02. > :02:08.We went through a horrendous, absolutely horrendous...
:02:09. > :02:13.The messages we received and everything we went through.
:02:14. > :02:15.Ambitious plans to completely change the structure of local government
:02:16. > :02:20.in Dorset have been condemned by one of the county's most
:02:21. > :02:24.Six of the county's nine local authorities have backed plans
:02:25. > :02:27.to replace the current set-up with two unitary authorities.
:02:28. > :02:30.But the other three councils want to keep things as they are.
:02:31. > :02:37.This is a very crude map of Dorset's current nine council areas,
:02:38. > :02:40.with the economic powerhouse of Bournemouth and Poole keen
:02:41. > :02:43.to merge with their neighbour Christchurch, and the other five
:02:44. > :02:46.councils lumped together to form a separate unitary
:02:47. > :02:58.However, three of the smaller councils have all voted no to being
:02:59. > :03:05.Cheers greeted the merger plans being rejected
:03:06. > :03:12.People want to be able to keep control of their own destiny.
:03:13. > :03:14.Bournemouth and Poole can join together if they want
:03:15. > :03:18.to and meanwhile we have a combined authority which is a strong
:03:19. > :03:30.There will be less councillors so less representatives of people,
:03:31. > :03:35.But it also freezes out diversity of opinion.
:03:36. > :03:39.It works well in Cornwall, Wiltshire.
:03:40. > :03:41.It's not a ground-breaking proposal we've got here.
:03:42. > :03:44.Nine councils cannot be the best optimal arrangement of delivering
:03:45. > :03:49.public service in a county the size of Dorset.
:03:50. > :03:51.The final decision rests with the secretary of state
:03:52. > :03:56.If he says yes, there's calls from Greens, Lib Dems and Ukip
:03:57. > :04:08.Now for a look at the weather with Jennifer Bartram.
:04:09. > :04:12.Some cloud and showers through the first part of this
:04:13. > :04:17.We will see some clear spells first thing on Monday morning.
:04:18. > :04:19.And the temperatures down to around three or four degrees,
:04:20. > :04:24.That wind is going to be a feature through Monday.
:04:25. > :04:27.We should see plenty of dry and fine weather through the morning,
:04:28. > :04:28.some sunshine coming through after that cold
:04:29. > :04:33.But that breeze is really going to take the edge
:04:34. > :04:36.Around nine or 10 degrees on the thermometer,
:04:37. > :04:40.Through the rest of the week, it stays mild, with a few
:04:41. > :04:49.Our next updates are in BBC Breakfast.
:04:50. > :05:15.I'm sure most of us are glad to see the back of this weekend. It's been
:05:16. > :05:19.cold, bleak and at times wintry. It provided some beautiful weather
:05:20. > :05:23.Watchers photos, like Sheffield earlier today. I suspect some of the
:05:24. > :05:29.lying snow will be blown around by strong winds starting to develop.
:05:30. > :05:30.The odd spot of drizzle into the far