hannah barham—brown and robert nisbet, thank you both forjoining us nisbet, thank you both forjoiningkfast from the bbc. still to come for you this morning: earlier this year many of you contacted us after louise took a brave step of talking about the menopause on bbc brea kfast. talking about the menopause on bbc breakfast. we will look back on some of those conversations louise helped to start and beginning to chance on the way we think about symptoms and treatment. get in touch as well because we have a guest talking to a specific —— talking to us specifically on that issue. welcome to bbc london on the last day of 2019. i'm tarah welsh. on the eve of a new decade, one of our most famous landmarks turns 20. built for the millenium, the london eye was only supposed to be in place for five years but is now a permanent fixture on our skyline. it was designed as part of a competition with its 32 capsules representing each one of the london boroughs. we wanted the capsules on the outside so that when you're at the very top you had an unimpeded 360—degree view, a bit like being on top of

robert nisbet, director of nations and regions at the rail delivery group which represents the trainority of trains are running and arriving as planned. in a small number of places, there has been some disruption due to train crew shortages and slightly overrunning engineering work this morning." but some train operators have warned the real test will come tomorrow when the weekday service kicks in. it's coming up to christmas so that means it's also time for the annual bbc sports personality of the year awards. stars from across the sporting world will gather in aberdeen tonight to celebrate a memorable 12 months. our sports correspondentjoe wilson is there for us. quite an impressive shortlist of potential winners of the word sef plus some other awards announced? absolutely. we are here on the red carpet in aberdeen shortly before the show begins on bbc one at 7pm and it is kind of like a competitive sport in its own right every year but the challenge of sports personality i think is trying to differentiate between a number of people whose individual performances are all outstandin

let's talk a bit more about what passengers can expect, we're joined by robert nisbet from the industryra services across the country. a significant number but i know the references will be made back to what happened last year and since then we have learned our lesson and delivered to successful timetable changes, adding an extra a000 services throughout the country so hundreds of people involved in getting ready for tomorrow, including planners, engineers, and people sitting around the table saying, are we really ready to add these extra services, looking at it through the lands of punctuality and reliability. if not, it is not added to the service. there is a caveat, there could be possibly be teething problems so we're asking people to before they travel from tomorrow. on a practical level, when actually does the timetable kick in? what time do! does the timetable kick in? what time do i have to look out for the areas, as a commuter, someone travelling tomorrow to visit family. from tomorrow afternoon into the evening, we suggest you do check, especially in certain parts of the count