A NEW Forest woman has died after falling from scaffolding at her home.

The 53-year-old was seriously injured yesterday when she plunged about 12ft at her house in Kings Saltern Road, Lymington.

She was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where she died in the evening.

A Hampshire Police spokesman said detectives went to the house, but stressed that the woman's death was not being treated as suspicious.

The woman will not be named until her relatives have been informed.