03/01/2017 Look East (West)

A hit and run incident in Cambrideshire leaves

two pedestrians dead. Police are hunting for the driver.

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

because of broken toilets and lack of staff to help.

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

First tonight, police in Cambridgeshire

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

hit and run incident in which two men died.

It happened close to Yaxley near Peterborough, just

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

looking for clues which may help explain how two

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

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

Police are still trying to trace their next of kin.

For residents, disbelief - and concern that this is not

I did hear there had been another hit and run down

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

For it to happen on your own doorstep soon enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

level crossing in Lidlington in central Bedfordshire.

The London Midland service from Bedford to Bletchley struck

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

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

A Paralympian says she was left to wet herself

because the disabled toilet was not working.

Anne Wafula Strike has represented Team GB in wheelchair racing

and been awarded the MBE for her charity work

She was travelling back to her home in Harlow

She says she felt robbed of her dignity.

Here is our chief reporter Kim Riley.

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

of UK Athletics and was awarded an MBE for her services

She was returning to Harlow from a board meeting in Coventry

last month when her train journey of almost three hours turned

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

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

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

She could not wait until the train reached Peterborough.

I had to do it. I could not wait.

It was humiliating, but I had to do it.

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

when you are different, you are so isolated.

The world disqualifies you from having a life.

It is as though, when you have a disability,

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

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

with CrossCountry Trains, describing the service as appalling

and totally unacceptable in the 21st-century.

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

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

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

A spokesperson for CrossCountry said...

Anne says she decided to speak out in the hope

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

I spoke to Anne earlier and asked if she had heard

They haven't apologised directly to me.

They have sent a statement to the BBC this morning.

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

they have not actually apologised directly to me.

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

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

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

The CrossCountry trains failed me big time.

The least they could do is at least apologise.

Is that why you decided to come forward publicly,

given that you have a profile as a Paralympic athlete?

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

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

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

the public eye for the world to listen to you.

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

Will you be travelling by train again?

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

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

Finally, we hear about the huge profits that train companies

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

should they be fined for this type of unacceptable

There should be huge, huge fines imposed on such

The CrossCountry trains should be fined for what has happened.

We have legislation that actually supports passengers

with disabilities, that says their human rights

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

having legislation that is so weak that companies

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

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

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

2017 will see the pharmaeutical company AstraZeneca start

to move into its new global headquarters in Cambridge.

Up to 2,000 scientists will eventually be housed

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

This from our business correspondent, Richard Bond.

Taking shape in Cambridge - a building that will

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

Four years ago, AstraZeneca said it would move

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

facilities for 2,000 workers are being created.

The first of them will move in later this year.

At the moment, they are scattered around

eight sites in the area, including this office

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

with designers and build your own building,

that is dedicated to the science you are undertaking.

It really is a sense of real excitement for

AstraZeneca as a whole, but also the scientists

that will be working in the new building.

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

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

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

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

The R centre will also include the corporate headquarters,

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

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

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

from AstraZeneca's former research base in Cheshire.

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

Peterborough City Hospital says its faced an

unprecedented demand for care in its accident

and emergency department within the last 24 hours.

A critical internal incident was declared yesterday and

Extra staff were called in to assess patients

Meanwhile, Cambridge University Hospitals are urging people to stay

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

Temperatures got a few degrees below freezing last night.

Tonight, they should stay just above freezing,

because there is a lot more cloud over the region.

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

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

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

Temperatures starting to rise tomorrow morning as this weather

It will bring some light spots of rain or drizzle.

It also introduces colder air behind it

in the afternoon, once that front has moved through.

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

Following that, some bright winter sunshine.

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

temperature not getting up much above 6-7 Celsius.

We'll start to establish a brisk north-westerly

wind, which will make it feel colder still.

The national weather is coming up, but here is

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

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

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

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

because of this weather front that