Coming up on the Sky News Daily, after a mass stabbing on a train at the weekend, we ask, are attacks like this simply unavoidable?

Hi everyone, good to have you back with us on The Daily. Our focus today is going to be on that horrific attack on a train in Cambridgeshire. So this might not be an episode for the

kids. Some of you will be listening to this podcast on the bus or perhaps while staring out of a

train window as you make your way home. So how safe do you feel after what happened? The reason I

ask is that I still vividly remember how I felt 20 years ago getting on a bus to head to work in central London.

The day after, a bus was blown up in central London on 7-7.

I was nervous.

I was suspicious.

No doubt some of you listening are feeling exactly the same.

The police investigation into what happened on the train is still very much in its early stages.

No doubt there will be more to say on another occasion.

Today, though, we wanted to consider whether anything, anything at all, actually can be done to make you feel safer.

The violence on the LNER train involved a knife, so predictably it's being asked if airport-style security, metal detectors and x-ray machines and so on, whether they could be used on the trains.

Here's Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander's take.

I don't think airport-style scanners would be the way to go. I understand why you ask the question

and I understand why some of your viewers might be wondering about that. We have thousands of

railway stations across the UK and those stations have multiple entrances, multiple platforms.

So what we can't do is make life impossible for everyone.

Let's pick up on that with our crime correspondent Martin Brunt.

He's outside Peterborough Magistrate's court.

Martin, of course, charges have been brought.

So that does limit somewhat, that which we can say.

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