03/01/2017 Look East


03/01/2017

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In Look East this lunchtime:

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The Paralympic athlete who says she was

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"robbed of her dignity" after being given no choice

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Hands Off - a new media campaign is launched to warn

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of the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving.

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And have we got further icy starts on the way?

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I'll tell you in the forecast, coming up.

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An award-winning Paralympic athlete says she was "robbed of her dignity"

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after being given no choice but to wet herself on a train.

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from Harlow, found the only disabled toilet was out of order.

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She says she was left humiliated after the train company

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The 42-year-old wheelchair racer is a board member of UK Athletics,

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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

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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 toilets there, but there were no staff

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She couldn't wait until the train reached Peterborough.

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When you are in that situation, that is when you really

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I rarely feel disabled because I like to get

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I would like to be in the community to support others.

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But when that happened to me, I just realised that, you know,

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sometimes when you are different, you are so isolated.

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The world disqualifies you from having a normal 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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Describing the service as appalling, totally unacceptable

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A spokesperson for CrossCountry said...

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Anne Wafula Strike says, despite her humiliation,

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she decided to speak out in the hope of bringing about change.

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

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A man's died after his car was hit by a train on a level crossing

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It happened just after ten o'clock, close to Lidlington station.

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The train was the 9.35 Bedford to Bletchley service.

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11 passengers, along with the driver and conductor, were unhurt.

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Two people arrested on suspicion of murdering a man in Jaywick

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Paramedics were called to a house in Bentley Avenue

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on New Year's Day morning, where they found a man's body.

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after being assaulted on New Year's Eve.

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A new campaign's been launched by the media across Suffolk

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and Norfolk today to warn of the dangers of using a mobile

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It's called Hands Off, and is backed by local BBC

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With much tougher fines, new police kit to catch the culprits,

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and more publicity than ever before, you might have thought the message

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We want you to pledge not to use your mobile

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So now, a new timely plea backed by multimedia muscle urging drivers

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to see sense by signing up for what could well prove

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a life-saving and life-changing New Year's resolution.

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But with Radio Norfolk involved, local newspapers as well, we can

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It is brilliant that the local media wants to play a part in this.

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The campaign today was backed on-air by the police.

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And from listeners, plenty of scare stories.

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I was driving just before Christmas, and a coach was coming

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The coach driver had to turn, one hand on the wheel,

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and one hand on his mobile phone, up to his ear.

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I think this is gathering momentum nationally.

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People are beginning to see it as a real mustn't

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Go onto Facebook, keep your hands off your phone is the page.

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The advice is simple - if you the tempted to touch it,

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And if there is any doubt, put it in the boot, well out of reach.

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The drugs giant Astra Zeneca will start moving staff

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into its new global headquarters in Cambridge later this year.

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

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It's one of a number of big developments in the business world

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a building which will make this region one of the leading centres

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Four years ago, Astra Zeneca said it would move its global

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At the Cambridge biomedical campus, facilities for 2000

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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 eight sites in the area,

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including this office on the science park.

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There aren't many times in your career as a scientist

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where you can work with designers, build your own building

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that is dedicated to the science that you are undertaking.

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It really is a sense of excitement for Astra Zeneca as a whole,

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but also the scientists that are going to be working

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This year should see a big expansion at Stansted.

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The leisure airline Jet 2 will move 83 flights a week

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to the Essex airport, becoming its number two

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Two major wind farms reached significant milestones in 2017.

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Dudgeon field off North Norfolk should start to produce its first

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power in the spring, while the Galloper field off Suffolk

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This year, we will continue with the foundation installation

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We will start our A cables, that's the cables that connect

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We'll also put in the second export cable from the beach at Sizewell.

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We will start turbine installation, and then, of course,

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we need the offshore substation, which is the large structure, we

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So it is really all happening this year.

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The Government will trigger Article 50 by the end of March.

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After which Britain's exit negotiations from the EU will begin.

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While those talks will take years, companies here will want to retain

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good access to the single market, and have a migration system

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that allows them access to the people they need.

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Time now for the weather forecast with Georgina Burnett.

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We are going to finish on a much cloudier note than where we started

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today. It was cold and frosty but there was blue skies on fire and

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lovely sunrises, as captured here. Thank you for your photographs. This

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afternoon, not too much blue sky. As the cloud gradually increases.

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Temperatures up to around five or six Celsius. Holding onto that cloud

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through the night, which will serve as a blanket. Feeling milder than

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last night, but a north-westerly breeze will develop, which will be

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fairly fresh. A few outbreaks of light rain. It's maybe warmer

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through the night than during the day. Tomorrow morning, quite a lot

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of cloud. Further outbreaks of rain mainly through the morning. That

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cloud should lift NANB. Leaving as with beautiful winter sunshine.

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Along the coast, it's maybe we will see more outbreaks through the day.

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Temperatures up to five or six Celsius- still chilly. These will be

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cold to start the day. Frost expected, fog patches and freezing

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fog is possible. It does brighten up, but Friday not so much. Quite a

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lot of cloud. A band of rain sinking southwards. We will see that later

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and through the night was a clearing interviewee came, giving us a bright

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weekend with a chill in the air. The temperatures will improve a little.

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You will be scraping more windscreens on Thursday morning. But

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was the weekend, approaching figures again.

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OK that's all from the lunchtime team.

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Do join us again for Look East tonight at 6.30pm.

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Panorama investigates the deadly terrorist attack

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and should British tourists have been warned about the risks?

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