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I was embarrassed, I was very angry. I just really felt useless and

honestly, you know, I felt very disabled. He has his hand in front

of and talking into the phone. Hands off, the new campaign to stop

drivers using mobile We look at some of the big

developments coming our way in 2017. And a sting in the tale for railway

passengers after this scorpion stops the Edinburgh

express at Peterborough. First tonight, the paralympian left

with no choice but to wet herself on a long-distance train journey

because the disabled Anne Wafula Strike has represented

Team GB in wheelchair racing. She's also been awarded the MBE

for her charity work She was travelling back to her home

in Harlow when the incident happened and says she felt

humiliated as result. In a moment my interview with her,

but first this from our chief The 42-year-old wheelchair racer is

a board member of UK athletics and was awarded an MBE for her services

to disability sport. She was returning from a board meeting last

month when her train journey of almost three hours turned into a

nightmare. The cross-country train's disabled pilot was out of order. A

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

to use the pilot there. There were no staff at the station to help her,

she could not wait until the train reached Peterborough. Could not hold

any more and had to do it, humiliating but I had to. When that

happened I realised that you know sometimes when you're different you

are so isolated, the world disqualifies you from having a

normal life. It is though when you have a disability you do not deserve

to have equal rights in the community. The MP for Harlow has

taken up her complaint with cross-country trains, describing the

service as appalling, totally unacceptable for the 21st century.

She's not one of life smoulders, I have never heard her complaint in

this way about her disability, she is a positive and wonderful human

being and it saddens me that she has had to suffer Bijan deleted by the

thrill company in this way. A spokesperson for cross-country said

clearly the circumstances of the journey were unacceptable. This is

the first time we are aware of such a situation ever happening on one of

our trains, we are investigating how our established procedures for

caring for a customer in a wheelchair could have failed so

terribly. And said she decided to speak out in the hope of bringing

about change, too many people with disabilities she said suffer in

silence. This afternoon I spoke

to Anne Wafula Strike at her home in Harlow and I asked

about the moment she realised the disabled lavatory

was out of order. I looked at the toilet with the

sign, out of order, and I was mortified. I was mortified because I

knew I was not alighting on that train in the next ten or 30 minutes,

I knew I had a long journey ahead of me. And I knew as a human being, you

know, I needed that facility, I needed to use the toilet. It scared

me. And he ended up having to wet herself because there were no

facilities, which is something that in this day and age seems

extraordinary. But for you to have to go through that, what was it

like? I was embarrassed, I was very angry and... I just really felt

useless. Honestly, you know, I felt very disabled. When that happened.

And you are someone who is -- has actually used your disability as an

opportunity, you are a Paralympic and Andy patron of many charities in

pain and a patron of many charities and the campaigner, you're such a

strong person and yet that must have made you feel not strong at all. It

sort of just really took away all the confidence that I had spent

years working on, it took away my dignity. So many people are

struggling, this is happening to some people but because of the

self-censorship, people want to regain their dignity, nobody wants

to attend the public can say that I have this kind of accident. People

are suffering. You say it is not cool to talk about it but I would

say it is very cool what you're doing now, having the bravery to

speak out about something that was so awful for you at the time. I am

so pleased that I have spoken about this, because I am hoping that it is

going to generate debate. It is already doing that. It is doing that

in Sweden, in Italy, in Spain. I have had so many people, hundreds

and hundreds of tweets and e-mails, people who have suffered in silence

and they feel as though I am speaking on their behalf. The system

should not let this happen. By taking this decision to speak out

and getting the reaction you have, does that make you feel that

something good may be able to come of this awful experience? Your Mac I

am hoping that through this companies, organisations, even our

government, will go back and look at the legislation. I think the

community now and many companies will take a box because they want to

be seen as giving or providing for someone with a disability. But the

government should impose huge fines on some of these people who just

want to tick a box. Anne Wafula Strike, thank you very much.

And if you have had a problem relating to disability and public

transport would like to hear from you. You can get in touch in the

usual way. Please leave a telephone number.

People in Essex have been reacting to plans for a so-called

The government wants to build 14 garden towns and garden villages

across the country and says they would mean a total

Gareth George is at Harlow Civic Centre now, Gareth.

Here in Harlow able be celebrating the news, it is the 70th anniversary

this year. Harlow was the original garden town when it was built, it

was landscape a separate neighbourhoods and now the

government wants councils to press forward with plans for more garden

town 's Garden villages, too. But not everyone is happy.

The demand for new homes far exceeds supply so the government is plans

for what it calls new garden town 's, with 10,000 houses or more as

well as smaller garden villages. One new garden town could go here just

outside Harlow near the village of Gilson. The village for the park is

for a green and pleasant place with schools, doctors surgeries and

parks. Housing and planning Minister Gavin Barwell said locally led

garden towns and villages have enormous potential to deliver the

homes and communities need. But there is opposition, the development

would be at the bottom of this man's garden, he said the description of a

garden town of the emitted conjurers is a spurious one. There are no

plans for the employment in this area, it really is just a sprawling

housing estate of 10,000 houses. Everyone getting on the train to

London. A lot of them will want to get on the train and a lot of them

will want to drive in the drinks can accept what people are neither can

the roads. At the council HQ I asked the council leader if he thought the

existing infrastructure could cope. The seats on the trains, hospital

struggling, the last thing you need is another 10,000 houses, isn't it?

This is a Catch-22 situation, you will not get a new hospital road

improvements without the housing investment both in terms of the

direct contribution this will make towards infrastructure development

but also that critical mass, it is about doing those things is part of

an overall package. In Harlow itself there also seems to be support for

the garden town. It will bring rejuvenation to the town because it

has lost a lot of shops and businesses. How big is it? 10,000

houses. That is a lot because I -- but I do think houses are needed.

New houses are needed all over the place because people can't afford to

live in London any more. Campaigners say they are preparing for a legal

fight that could go on for decades. And they don't call it Gilson Park,

the college Harlow North and they say they have been fighting similar

proposals for more than 20 years, as well as the garden town proposed

here on the Essex Harlow border of are three other garden town

proposals elsewhere in Essex and they all face stiff opposition, too.

And if you think the idea of garden towns sounds familiar you would be

right. Back in 2008 Prime Minister Gordon

Brown announced plans, It was narrowed down to four

locations across the country, and one of them was Rackheath

on the outskirts of Norwich. The eco-town proposals lead to a

wave of protest, the plan was to build greenhouses and greenfield

sites and lots of people did not like it. This was the vision of the

then Labour Housing Minister John Healey. Living here in the future in

the new eco-town will be a greener type of living but also the eco-town

will have everybody living in houses so that they can reach the services

they need, the shops in it, within ten minutes walk. The plan for

Iraqis, 5000 new and existing homes on a former bomber base north of the

village but when Labour lost power in 2010 enthusiasm for the scheme

disappeared and in the face of opposition that was dropped. Stephen

Hurd campaign against the plans. They did not want a big new

showpiece development. We are not NIMBY, we understand the need for

housing, personally, we all have families and we all understand the

need for housing but we would like these families to be in our own

community. I would love my daughter and granddaughter to be in the

village but they have to move away because there is no housing in the

village. What happened here over the eco-town is mirrored in communities

across the East. Whenever big housing developments are announced

that is nearly always strong local opposition and that is one reason we

are falling well short of house-building targets. The campaign

group the town and country planning Association says 30,000 new homes

are needed every year in the East to meet demand. In 2014-15 just over

$20,000. In Iraq EC eco-town may be dead but it could be replaced by

another major development. Plans for 3000 homes are in the pipeline,

nearly as many as before and construction could start in the same

greenfield next year. A 38-tonne articulated lorry became

wedged between two buildings The driver got into trouble

at the junction of Northgate Street The lorry and trailer were cleared

several hours later. A new campaign's been launched

across Suffolk and Norfolk today to warn of the dangers

of using a mobile It's called "Hands Off"

and is backed by local BBC radio Few people could have a better

reason to campaign for change than Alice husband, two years ago were

sung, Seth, died after he was not town outside his home. He was seven

years old. The car driver was using a mobile phone or loudspeaker. I

miss him every day and so do his brothers and the rest of the family.

It has changed my life. It is something I would never wish to

happen to anybody. If there was anything I could change in my life

it would be not to lose him. Despite new tougher fines and tactics from

the police, drivers seem happy to risk it. Is on his phone, you see

him? We want you to pledge not to use your mobile phone behind the

wheel. It is as simple as that. We are one radio station but with

regular folk involved in local newspapers as well we can really get

the message across that it is brilliant that the local media want

to play a part in this. The campaign is backed by police and honour today

Leicester skipper overrunning support. A court was coming round

the roundabout, the coach driver had one hand on the wheel and another on

his mobile phone to his ear. When you're on the phone part of your

brain visualises the person you're talking to, and that part of the

brain is the same path that should be sorting out hazards. Having

someone sat next year is not an issue. Having a phone conversation

is. Is string of tragedies has shown that in a split second everything

can change. The advice on mobiles and the car is simple. Do not

torture no matter what. If there's any doubt put it in the boot in the

boot out of reach. -- do not touch that no matter what.

And there's more on that campaign online.

Go to facebook and search for the "keep your hands

Still to come, the weather for the rest of the week in football it is

only live there as Norwich city celebrate a rare hat-trick at Carrow

Road. All this week on the programme,

we'll be looking at some Over the next four days we'll be

looking at the worlds of business, And we'll start

tonight with business. 2017 will see the drugs

company Astra Zeneca start to move into its new global

headquarters in Cambridge. And there are also developments

at Stansted, and two of our big This from our business

correspondent Richard Bond. Taking shape in Cambridge, a

building that will make this region one of the leading centres of drug

discovery in the world. Four years ago AstraZeneca said it would move

its Google headquarters to the city, at the Cambridge biomedical campus

facilities for 2000 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 on the science park.

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

with designers and build your own building, and it is dedicated to the

sides are undertaking. It really is a sense of real excitement for

AstraZeneca as a whole and also the scientists that will be working in

the new building. It'll be a big moment for the region's economy when

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

pharmaceutical companies. Construction work is at its peak on

the ?330 million project, once complete the buildings will be

powered by ground source heating from this energy centre. The R

centre will enclose -- include the headquarters which was moved from

London in 2016 so we will end up the west to scientists, copper

headquarters served by a very sustainable energy centre. Two major

wind farms reached significant milestones in 2017. One field of

North Norfolk should start to produce its first power in the

spring wealthy galloper field of Suffolk goes into full-scale

construction. This year we will continue with the foundation

installation that started last year, we will use cables connect

individual wind turbines, we will also put in the second export cable

from the beach at Sizewell, we will start turbine installation and then

of course we need the offshore substation which is the large

structure we put in around May so it is all happening this year. The

expansion of Stansted should continue this year, the leisure

airline jet to almost 83 flights per week to the Essex airport. This --

it will become the number two airline after Ryanair. As a result

the airport needs more space. It should hear this year whether it can

go ahead with the new ?130 million arrivals building to accommodate

more passengers. Our political correspondent

Andrew Sinclair has been talking to politicians on both sides

of the fence about what we can expect in the weeks

and months ahead. Football now and it's been

a particularly hectic holiday period Many of them have played three

games in just eight days. All the winners and losers

in a moment, but this report from Tom Williams starts

with a Colchester defender After struggling through autumn,

Colchester United finally found their rhythm as Christmas. They have

been beating allcomers and one player has been finding new ways to

celebrate. The player from Cameroon has rapidly become the new cult hit.

His antics have gone down a storm on Twitter, the club anxious to make a

song and dance of it, tweeting away action shots merrily. The man

himself loving it, he treated, I enjoyed that drumming, if any band

assured of a drummer boy then just shout. We don't's owner Ollie has

been reunited with his instrument, as I am sure his neighbours will

testify. But after watching his side win six of the last seven games why

not bang on about it? Everyone I spoke to was quite surprised,

drumming was quite simple but when you're doing it is hard to get a

decent beetle he was very good. Since the didn't we have not lost

the game, the fans love them and things like this because love her

more. Colchester were the region's star performer is, top of the tree

after three wins and three, just below Cambridge United are also

unbeaten claiming seven points from nine, Southend have a win and two

draws, a mixed bag for knowledge at MK Dons with a search page about

Northampton and wouldn't only managing three points from three

games. Stevenage had a shocker, bar at the bottom, Christmas for them

totally pointless. But for Cambridge wearing in red-hot form. They

Colchester they have taken 19.3 possible 21 to surge up the table

and into the play-offs. Yesterday's 4-0 win over Notts County kept them

in seventh. Deeply any manner that suggests they are genuine promotion

contenders, they are playing with verve and vigour and seemed to be

enjoying the football. Goal of the day, this one by Tom Lawrence for

Ipswich, a cracker but not a matchwinner. QPR sneaking a late

winner leaving town the wrong half of the table. Is that we played the

second have especially very well become quite close the game out, so

we need to work on that. Get back to winning ways next game. After a

miserable 2016 reason to cheer for Norwich fans, a 3-0 when using the

pressure on Alex Neill for now. A week ago I would have said Gore,

today I'm saying he can do it. It was a different team, they played

really well and I want to see more games like that. Nelson Oliveira the

toast of Carol Rhodes had, is hat-trick the perfect way to kick

off the new year. Finally tonight, we've run a few

stories over the years on the reasons for delays

on our railway lines. Among the favourites: overhead power

cables down and leaves on the line. But how about a scorpion

in the carriage. It happened on a London to Edinburgh

express train on New Year's Day. The service was halted

at Peterborough after the scorpion It was eventually taken

to an exotic pet refuge, All eyes busy and beady, quick to

acknowledge the new kid on the block. A story from Guatemala, this

scorpion fell out of a woman's rucksack on a train near

Peterborough. I was getting my glasses case out and noticed there

was a scorpion crawling on the glasses case. I dropped it on the

floor because I did not want to get stung and then kicked over the

glasses case to see it I could find a scorpion on the underside and

wasn't there so at that point we had lost the scorpion in the carriage.

Soon found the tiny creature less than one inch long was scooped into

a food container, British Transport Police took to the warmth of the

exotic pet refuge near Peterborough. It would not have lasted overnight,

there would have been no repercussions the next day. Other

lodges venomous it is only like two of the wasp sting so it is not

dangerous or fatal. It would only really sting if provoked. This

morning little bundles of scorpion joy, even harder to spot than the

month. There are three small babies that I can see, after they have

grown up little that they will sit on their mums back and head to ride

around with her, she will feed them for a couple days and then they will

feed on small box themselves. It is fantastic, we want to go and visit

the rescue centre in Peterborough so we should do that at some stage. My

daughter is really interested in animals and would like to study

zoology so we are very pleased. The train was delayed by only seven

minutes but the scorpion and her babies continue to make headlines,

they will live out their days at the refuge quietly away from the

cameras. No paparazzi!

Imaginative and laid eggs in the carriage and they hadn't known until

they got into the carriage tours overrun.

Alex was just seeing she had a wonderful scorpion fact.

Is it small clubs big sting, because small sting?

Someone will call and letters now. The producer agrees. If the producer

says it is true, OK. The best thing is now staying at

all, really. The best thing is not to have a scorpion on the

It is a bit call for scorpions perhaps. We have a cold start to the

day this morning, some cold on the grass in Cambridge as the sun rose,

and the beautiful sunset photograph taken. It will get a little chilly

tonight but not as cold as last night because of more cloud around

and although it is expected to stay mainly dry by the end of the night

there may well be some light rain or drizzle across northern counties. As

we go through tonight there will be clear spells developing,

temperatures close to freezing so we could get down to two or three

degrees so perhaps just the risk of a touch of frost but for most of us

we're staying above freezing temperatures as this weather front

comes in from the North will start to recover so those temperatures

rising to around four or 5 degrees for some of us as we start the day

tomorrow. We have this weather front coming in from the north tomorrow,

it is a cold fronts or wanted clear spirit it will mean a cold wind

developing, actually, and some bright weather around so expect a

cloudy start first is that weather front approaches and some might rain

expected but cleaning fluid quickly and then some pleasant spells of

winter sunshine, the bulk of the day looking dry and bright. Deventer is

perhaps feeling cold in that went, five or 6 degrees. These are average

wind speeds, and that will be a feature of the weather through

tomorrow particularly into the afternoon and evening and a certain

and wintry showers from the North Sea saw four counties in Norfolk and

Suffolk there could be the odd shower coming in for the evening,

including the quite quickly saw the Queen to be quite fleeting but just

a possibility and then you notice the blue on the map, by the time we

get to 5am on Thursday temperatures dropping quite sharply, a sharp

frost expected for tomorrow night. We could be down as low as -5 or 6

degrees in parts of the region as we start the day. I pressure will give

us some dutiful winter sunshine for Thursday, it establishes itself

across the British Isles for Thursday so lots of fine weather

around but you can see the weather front coming in from the north-west

and events that to move eastwards and as they get to the weekend the

weather front will come through and bring us rain and introduce some

milder air. Every cup for tomorrow, looking largely dry with the risk of

the showers coming in first thing and wintry showers later

particularly from the coast. If each of the weather tomorrow is the

strengthening north-westerly wind and then fine wintry sunshine after

the sharp frost on Wednesday night into Thursday, so it'll be a cold

day with lots of sunshine around, and eventually the weather front

starts to bring in some rain probably in the day on Friday, into

the weekend and then it turns slightly milder.

Susie was not listening, she was looking up scorpion facts.

Apparently it is mainly by accident the sting people. Goodbye.

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