Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast and also tonight, do you remember John Kettley, the weather man? He was on national television reading the weather forecast for years. Well, it was a great story, but John has sold up in the south of England, wherever he lived and has moved to just outside of Lincoln. I shall be finding out why tonight, when I speak to John Kettley on the programme.
Ill also have some live music from a singer and songwriter from Lincolnshire. Shes making a name for herself and has performed to over six thousand people at the London Palladium. And Ill be looking at calls to get a new casino built on the Lincolnshire coast to help regenerate our coastal towns. Ill be talking to the Chief Executive from the Council to see why he thinks this will help boost employment and tourism in our area. Well also be looking at the preparations being made for bird flu in our area as another reported case is found in Germany. Ill have the latest on the MFI job losses in Scunthorpe. The Lincolnshire workers are facing an agonising wait to hear what will happen to the Scunthorpe plant. And also tonight, did you know that Hull has the least number of trees and wooded areas compared to other cities in the country? Well, well be looking at a new scheme to change that. So a busy programme tonight. I hope you can join me! Miles Still the emails are coming in on the subjects of miles or kilometres. I think Ive got the gist now that none of us actually want roads signs that are in kilometres. We want miles, miles miles! This one comes from Denise, she says, We have very little left that is British. The Euro bureaucrats have seen to that. Leave kilometres on the continent and with a bit of luck, Neil Kinnock will stay with them. We must never ever let them change our distances to kilometres and I wish the BBC commentators and sporting events would stop taking in this foreign language. People use miles, miles per hour and miles per gallon. So there you are. Some strong words from Denise, thank you very much. This one comes from Jonathan, I cant believe that people are getting so uptight about the possibility of changing over from miles to kilometres. This has nothing to do with Europe Federalism and all to do with moving ahead from the archaic and different imperial system of measurements to something more sensible. You see this has got some support now. Im thirty-six years old and I was at school in the metric system all those years ago. I understand and can use imperial units twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, one thousand seven hundred and sixty yards in a mile etc but most of that is self-taught. What are todays youngsters going to think when they are taught predominantly in a series of decimal based units. Well, Im lost, I dont know about you! Well, there you are. A bit of a fan there of the decimals. We have to change sometimes, just as our colleagues in Ireland have done so. In fact, I remember them having distances in kilometres, but speeds in miles per hour. Or was it vice versa? Jonathan, thank you very much indeed for that one. And thank you to everyone who has emailed me with comments about changing from miles to kilometres. Theyre all very much appreciated. Email Dont forget, email me if you like on any subject at all. You can just let me know who you are and where you are. Theres a note here. This one comes from Chris Plant. Chris is a DJ. Hes twenty-three and he lives in Kirk Ella. He says, Ive just been checking out the BBC Look North website, all the way from Las Vegas. Thats where hes writing from. The news pages help me find out about Hull City, Hull FC and other local news. Im out here for three months, searching for my dream radio job, so it would be really good of you to say hello to my family and friends back in Hull, especially my Dad, who made the front pages of the newspaper on Saturday after meeting his brother for the first time in fifty-eight years. Yes, I read that one! Im over the moon in Vegas! His name is Colin Plant and his brother is called Ron Phelvin. So hello to both Colin and Ron and also to Chris Plant, whos reading the Levy Letter all the way in Las Vegas! Thank you very much indeed and I ho! pe you get your DJ work and come back and see us again soon. Torville and Dean Well, can you believe it about Torville and Dean? Ive just got a little note here about Torville and Dean. This is a story thats come from Peter Coupland. Now, back in 1977, Peter was in the police and one night, he was at a study evening and he spoke to a fellow constable, and just got chatting and this constable told him that he was into ice skating. And he went on to say that hed just teamed up with a new partner and thought that they would do very well. He says, Well, I knew his name, because he had an identity tag on. We all wore one. But I said, well whats your partners name, who youre dancing with and he said, Jane. Well, he was of course, Christopher Dean and this is the funny bit. I then advised him, bearing in mind that he stood there as a policeman, - why dont you stick to police work as we Britons dont tend to be good at ice sports! Well, that must be the worst advice Ive ever given anybody in my life! Good job he took no notice of it Peter Coupland ! a great story, thank you very much indeed for that one. Weather Well, Paul was in the studio last night and Britain faces arctic blasts with the worst weather of the winter at minus fifteen in some areas. The papers and the news are full of it at the moment. And of course, many parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had snow over the last twenty four hours, although up to the time of writing the Levy Letter, weve managed to have escaped any snow in the centre of Hull, and in fact now the sun is shining brightly over Queens Gardens! But I bet its still chilly outside! Deena Thanks to Deena, who sent me an email. Shes a keen ice skater herself and she saw my interest in ice skating and also my feeble attempt at ice skating round about the time of Children in Need. I was well kitted out with safety pads for that one. Anyway, Deena says shell take me skating anytime I fancy going. Deena dont hold your breath, but thank you for the offer! But I value my two legs too much and I definitely dont think Im cut out for that. But thank you very much indeed and Im glad to hear that your skating career is going well. Thank you for your note. Nigella Yes, she is the woman that men fantasize over Nigella Lawson. She hardly has a lot to worry about as far as her figure is concerned, but now the curvaceous TV chef and cookery writer has vowed that she is never going to diet again and claims that she doesnt even know what she weighs. She says that counting calories is no way to live! Those type of comments always come from women, who look like Nigella. Anyway, thats Nigellas tips. Do not worry about counting calories as that is apparently no way to live! Well, thats it from me for today. Have a great afternoon and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for tonights Look North. See you then. Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
