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A hit and run incident in Cambrideshire leaves

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two pedestrians dead. Police are hunting for the driver.

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Loss of dignity - a Paralympian says she wet herself on a rail journey

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because of broken toilets and lack of staff to help.

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And I will be here with the full weather forcecast for you later.

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First tonight, police in Cambridgeshire

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are searching for the driver of a car that was involved in a

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hit and run incident in which two men died.

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It happened close to Yaxley near Peterborough, just

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Police forensic teams scoured the scene on the B1091 this morning,

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looking for clues which may help explain how two

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It happened just after 11 o'clock, when police say

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The victims are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s.

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Police are still trying to trace their next of kin.

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For residents, disbelief - and concern that this is not

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I did hear there had been another hit and run down

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I do not know what happened with that. But this is quite shocking.

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For it to happen on your own doorstep soon enough.

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In the last few hours, the police are looking into evidence connected

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to a phone call we have heard. A briefcase full of money was

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apparently recovered from the scene. Residency changes are needed for the

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road. We do need the traffic cameras here. The person police want to

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speak to is the driver of the BMW. We believe he fled the scene on foot

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but despite the use of the police helicopter, he remains at large.

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And a man has died after his car was hit by a train at a

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level crossing in Lidlington in central Bedfordshire.

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The London Midland service from Bedford to Bletchley struck

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the car at half past nine. No-one on the train was hurt

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and police say the man's death is not being treated as suspicious.

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A Paralympian says she was left to wet herself

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because the disabled toilet was not working.

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Anne Wafula Strike has represented Team GB in wheelchair racing

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and been awarded the MBE for her charity work

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She was travelling back to her home in Harlow

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She says she felt robbed of her dignity.

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Here is our chief reporter Kim Riley.

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The 42-year-old wheelchair racer is a board member

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of UK Athletics and was awarded an MBE for her services

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She was returning to Harlow from a board meeting in Coventry

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last month when her train journey of almost three hours turned

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The CrossCountry train's disabled toilet was out of order.

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A member of the train crew suggested she get off the train at a station

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to use the disabled toilet there, but there were no staff

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She could not wait until the train reached Peterborough.

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I had to do it. I could not wait.

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It was humiliating, but I had to do it.

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When that happened to me, I just realised that sometimes,

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when you are different, you are so isolated.

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The world disqualifies you from having a life.

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It is as though, when you have a disability,

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you don't deserve to have equal rights in the community.

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The MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon, has taken up her complaints

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with CrossCountry Trains, describing the service as appalling

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and totally unacceptable in the 21st-century.

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I have never heard her complain in this way about her disability.

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In fact, she is a very positive, wonderful human being.

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It hugely saddens me that she has had to suffer and be humiliated by

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A spokesperson for CrossCountry said...

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Anne says she decided to speak out in the hope

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Too many people with disabilities, she says, suffer in silence.

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I spoke to Anne earlier and asked if she had heard

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They haven't apologised directly to me.

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They have sent a statement to the BBC this morning.

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They have also sent a letter to my local MP, Robert Halfon, but

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they have not actually apologised directly to me.

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This is what so many other people with disabilities are going through.

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You know, this is what it means to really have a system

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that is letting you down, a system that is failing you.

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The CrossCountry trains failed me big time.

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The least they could do is at least apologise.

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Is that why you decided to come forward publicly,

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given that you have a profile as a Paralympic athlete?

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I am not going public because I have a profile as a

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Paralympian, I have gone public about this issue because I do not

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You do not need to be a Paralympian, you do not need to be in

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the public eye for the world to listen to you.

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I think people who are suffering, they need to rise up, they need

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Will you be travelling by train again?

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I will be travelling by train again and the reason why I

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will be travelling by train again is because I really want to hold

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Finally, we hear about the huge profits that train companies

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get but with something like this, an incident like this,

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should they be fined for this type of unacceptable

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There should be huge, huge fines imposed on such

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The CrossCountry trains should be fined for what has happened.

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We have legislation that actually supports passengers

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with disabilities, that says their human rights

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or disability rights are met, but what is the need of

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having legislation that is so weak that companies

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and organisations and big franchises will get out without paying fines?

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I think it is high time we started to call upon the government and all

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together, so that we can start to hold such people to account.

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2017 will see the pharmaeutical company AstraZeneca start

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to move into its new global headquarters in Cambridge.

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Up to 2,000 scientists will eventually be housed

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in a bespoke building on the city's Biomedical Campus.

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This from our business correspondent, Richard Bond.

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Taking shape in Cambridge - a building that will

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one of the leading centres of drug discovery in the world.

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Four years ago, AstraZeneca said it would move

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its headquarters to the city. At the Cambridge biomedical campus,

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facilities for 2,000 workers are being created.

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The first of them will move in later this year.

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At the moment, they are scattered around

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eight sites in the area, including this office

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There are many times in your career, as a scientist, that you can work

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with designers and build your own building,

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that is dedicated to the science you are undertaking.

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It really is a sense of real excitement for

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AstraZeneca as a whole, but also the scientists

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that will be working in the new building.

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It will be a big moment for the region's economy when

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this site of the global headquarters of one of the world's biggest

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Construction work is at its peak on the ?330 million project.

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Once complete, the buildings will be powered by ground source heating

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The R centre will also include the corporate headquarters,

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which was moved up from London in 2016, so we will end up

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there with 1,500-2,000 scientists, and corporate headquarters, served

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Included in the workforce will be 400 people who moved to Cambridge

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from AstraZeneca's former research base in Cheshire.

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A big shake-up, but one that has been a massive boost to the city.

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Peterborough City Hospital says its faced an

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unprecedented demand for care in its accident

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and emergency department within the last 24 hours.

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A critical internal incident was declared yesterday and

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Extra staff were called in to assess patients

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Meanwhile, Cambridge University Hospitals are urging people to stay

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We can catch up with the latest weather now, with Alex Dolan.

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Temperatures got a few degrees below freezing last night.

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Tonight, they should stay just above freezing,

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because there is a lot more cloud over the region.

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It looks like it will be mainly dry, but by the end of the night, across

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northern counties, there could be just a few spots of rain.

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Temperature-wise, it should be no lower than 2-3 Celsius.

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Temperatures starting to rise tomorrow morning as this weather

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It will bring some light spots of rain or drizzle.

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It also introduces colder air behind it

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in the afternoon, once that front has moved through.

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A bit of a cloudy start, with some spots of rain first thing.

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Following that, some bright winter sunshine.

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But feeling rather cold, for most of us, with the

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temperature not getting up much above 6-7 Celsius.

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We'll start to establish a brisk north-westerly

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wind, which will make it feel colder still.

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The national weather is coming up, but here is

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A cold start to Thursday, but lots of winter sunshine around.

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milder later in the week. That is it from me but coming up next is the

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national picture. Good evening. But frost or not of frost, that is the

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weather question for tomorrow and the answer is no, probably not

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because of this weather front that

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