Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me for a very busy programme tonight.
Tonight on the programme, Ill have the latest on Beverley Allitts new appeal. She was the nurse, who killed four children in a Lincolnshire hospital. Well, I'll have the latest on her fresh appeal to have her sentence reviewed. More on that later. Plus Ill have the latest from Lincolnshire Police force, who are turning to God for help to fight crime in our region. What do you think about that one? Of course, Ill be asking for your response and your comments. And a great success story here. I'll be meeting the Grimsby woman, who's just released her first album and is making waves in the music industry. I wish her every success and I hope you can join me tonight for Look North. And of course, Paul will have the detailed weather forecast for our part of the world. Thanks very much indeed for all the emails on a variety of subjects. Dont forget you can write to me at any time. If youve got a problem or an issue that you think I could deal with on the programme, or if youve got a picture that you want me to see, then you can get me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] And of course, if its urgent, you can get me any time during the day at the BBC in Hull on the main reception number of 01482 323232. Wash Your Hands Your mobile phones could be a major health hazard according to new research. The phone is an essential part to everyday modern life now for fifty-five million people in this country. But they are crawling with potentially lethal bacteria. With tens of thousands of microbes living on each square inch, they harbour more bacteria than a lavatory seat, the sole of a shoe or a door handle. Can you believe that? Theres more bacteria on a mobile phone than on a toilet seat! Yuck! Microbiologists say that the combination of the constant handling and the heat generated by the phone creates a prime breeding ground for all sorts of bugs! So there you are. Remember that as youre using your mobile phone today. Bridlington Theres a little note here from Mike Wilson, who lives in Brid. and he says, I suggest Look North visits Bridlingtons Harbour Museum. The museum is refurbished every winter and very soon we hope to have on display items from HMS Bridlington, a wartime minesweeper, some items from Sewerby Hall may be offered for display and the search continues for the bell and nameplate from the vessel. Perhaps Look North can find them for us! Well, there you are. I wanted to give a little plug there for the Bridlington Harbour Museum. The museum has a model of Three Brothers the 1912 sailing cobble, now preserved and it still sails in the bay during the summer. The next sail, by the way, of the Three Brothers is on the 6th August at 2pm. So well done to all the volunteers, who run the museum and its well worth a visit. Even if Look North doesnt get there straight away, maybe you should take a look, because its well worth it! Thats the Bridlington Harbour Museum. Breast Is Best Well, breasts may be best, but too much of mothers milk may make a child more prone to allergies, according to new research. Exclusive breast feeding, during the first six months of an infants life, is thought to help prevent allergies, but the new findings indicate that breast feeding for longer periods might actually be harmful. The research was started twenty years ago when scientists at the Helsinki Skin and Allergy Hospital in Finland asked two hundred mothers to breast feed their new born children for as long as possible. The children were assessed for allergies at the age of five, eleven and twenty. Feeding children exclusively on breast milk for nine months or more appears to increase their risk of developing allergic conditions such as eczema and food hypersensitivity. This is all reported in the New Scientist magazine. So there you are. Breast is best, but too much of mothers milk can make a child more prone to allergies. Whatever next! Anyway, it must be true, ! because it says so in the New Scientist. And I have to say that I know a lot of people my age, who are allergic to full fat milk, like I am, and I was breast fed, so that would figure wouldnt it? But how confusing is this? Yet another research project is heralding the virtues of breast feeding children by saying that breast fed babies cope better with stress in later life than if they were bottle fed. Almost nine thousand children were analysed and the results showed that when it came to the children, whose parents divorced, then bottle fed children were over nine times as likely to be highly anxious compared to breast fed babies. Scientists claim that the children, with a highly developed ability for stress management, had consumed higher levels of the hormone leptin found in breast milk. Other contradictory reports were that the children had formed a closer bond with their mothers through breast feeding and were therefore more likely to be able to cope with stress. So there you are. Its so difficult to keep up with these reports isnt it? But it still seems that breast is best, but not for too long! RNLI The RNLI has always been an organisation fairly close to my heart. After being brought up in Cornwall and having helped in St Agnes where there was a Blue Peter sponsored lifeboat and more recently I went out with the RNLI from Spurn Point. Of course, theres a programme all about the RNLI and the Spurn Point lifeboat tomorrow night on BBC television. The other night you might have seen on Tuesday the programme about the cruel sea and the Penlee disaster twenty-five years ago. It was an incredible programme. It was dramatically brought home in the dramatisation of the breathtaking courage and sacrifice of the volunteer lifeboat men, who in all weathers go to the rescue of anyone in danger around our coast - from holidaymakers trapped by the tides to inexperienced yachtsmen, who have found themselves snagged on the rocks to merchant ships and fishing boats and trawlers, who have got themselves in trouble. I hope you saw the documentary the other night all about the Penlee dis! aster. It was compelling. It was a reconstruction of the storm and the rescue attempt, supplemented with the actual audio recordings between the ships and the shore and the coastguard. And the voices were, it has to be said, spookily calm, despite the enfolding trauma that was going on. It was a superb programme and superb story telling. And I have to say, as someone, who was brought up just around the corner from where the Penlee disaster happened in Cornwall, it was hugely upsetting. We always support the work of the RNLI and last year, and last summer, I was invited to go and launch their new lifeboat. It was a great honour for me to do that. Let me just remind you of that programme. Its on tomorrow night and its all about the RNLI at Spurn Point. Well, that's it from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC One at half past six as usual. Look out for your Levy Letter again tomorrow. Itll be the last one of the week. If you know of anyone, whos not signed up, then point them in the direction of the address at the bottom of the page. Take care, 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
