BBC Local Live: Cambridgeshire on Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Summary

Updates on Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Former Cambridgeshire MP Sir Clement Freud accused of child abuse
Thousands visiting Cereals 2016, dubbed the "Glastonbury for farmers"
Father of a teenager who took his own life criticises mental health system
Updates resume at 08:00 on Thursday

Live Reporting

Mark Williamson

Watch: Cambridge vigil for Orlando nightclub victimspublished at 09:51 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Dotty McLeod
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
More than 200 people ignored the rain to gather outside Cambridge's Guildhall yesterday evening for a vigil following the Orlando nightclub attack.
I filmed this during a moment of silence as people remembered those who died.
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In the news: Thousands head to agricultural event near Duxford... Nigel Farage in Peterboroughpublished at 09:34 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
We'll bring you more reaction to the abuse allegations against Sir Clement Freud later, but here's a look at what's making the news in some of the papers:
- Major traffic on roads in the south of the county as thousands head to the Cereals 2016 agricultural event near Duxford, reports the Cambridge News, external
- The Peterborough Telegraph reports UKIP leader Nigel Farage is coming to Peterborough later, external, as we enter the final week of campaigning in the EU referendum
Statement from Lib Dems on Clement Freud abuse claimspublished at 09:20 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
A statement from the Liberal Democrats has called the allegations of abuse against Sir Clement Freud "horrific".
It said: "We are desperately sorry to learn that lives have been ruined by a man whose public face was so greatly at odds to his true character."
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He entered parliament after wining the Isle of Ely by-election with a majority of 1,470 in 1973, and, following boundary changes, went on to represent North East Cambridgeshire until 1987.
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Clement Freud was a senior figure in the Liberals, our party's predecessor, and we are deeply shocked and horrified by this news. Our party was never aware of what happened, and our hearts go out to the women who were affected."
Statement from the Liberal Democrats
Clement Freud abuse allegations: Woman describes 'self-destructiveness and grief'published at 09:06 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
"I've already suffered across nearly 40 years. It's not simply to be labelled as depression or mental illness, this is disempowerment, self-destructiveness and grief."
The words of a woman who claims she was sexually abused as a girl by Sir Clement Freud while he was a Cambridgeshire MP.
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The Liberal politician was an MP in Cambridgeshire in the 1970s and 1980s and died in 2009 aged 84.
In the ITV documentary, Exposure: Abused and Betrayed - A Life Sentence, due to be broadcast tonight at 23:05, he is accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s.
His widow Jill Freud, 89, said she was "deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women".
Woman says Sir Clement Freud 'would kiss her on the mouth' when she was 11published at 08:48 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
One of the women who says she was abused by Sir Clement Freud says she met the Liberal politician in 1971 at her family home as a "lonely, neglected and socially isolated" 11-year-old.
Two years later, after he was elected as MP for the Isle of Ely, he would take her on trips to Parliament and his home, and would kiss her on the mouth and hug her.
Four years later in June 1978 when she was 18, the woman, who wants to remain anonymous, alleges Freud came over to her parents' flat and "brutally and perfunctorily" raped her.
She told the ITV Exposure programme: "I live in constant terror that I'll be found out, exposed."
Weather: Scattered heavy, thundery showers developing todaypublished at 08:30
Kate Kinsella
BBC Look East weather
It will be a mostly dry, but rather cloudy start with a little patchy mist. Through the day it will be occasionally bright with brief sunny intervals, but heavy, perhaps thundery showers are expected to develop.
Maximum temperature: 20C (68F). For more, head to BBC Weather.
Sir Clement Freud accused of abusing two girlspublished at 08:15 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The late broadcaster and Cambridgeshire MP, Sir Clement Freud, has been accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s.
Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud when she was 10 and later went to live with him, told the ITV Exposure, external programme he abused her for years.
A second woman, who wants to remain anonymous, claimed he abused her as a child and raped her when she was 18.
Freud was Liberal MP for North East Cambridgeshire until 1987, having been first elected when it was the Isle of Ely seat in 1973.
Welcome to Cambridgeshire Livepublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 15 June 2016
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The big news this morning is that the former Cambridgeshire MP, Sir Clement Freud, has been accused of abusing two girls.
We'll bring you much more on that soon as part of our live news, sport, weather and travel updates between now and 18:00.
We'll also hear from the father of Edward Mallen, after an inquest found the suicidal 18-year-old did not get the help he needed.
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