Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter, the end of another week. I hope your day goes well and youll be able to join me for the days news and the weekend forecast from Look North at half past six.
On the show tonight, could we soon have to pay even more to get from A to B? We'll be looking into reports that the M62 is to become a toll road. Ill have more on that later. Well also have some information on one of our region's biggest ever engineering projects. Well have a special report on the extraordinary gas pipeline that runs all the way from Norway to our coast and will be supplying our country with gas for the next forty years at least. Its an incredible engineering project and well have exclusive access tonight on the programme. Ive also received a great many emails about this one. So many in fact that Look North thought we should investigate. Were going to take a look into mysterious noises reported near Market Rasen. Well try to get to the bottom of that for you. So I hope you can join me on BBC One tonight at half past six. Weekend I hope whatever youve got lined up for the weekend goes very well indeed. Im in Lincolnshire on Saturday night, in Lincoln. Then on Sunday its the Beverley Food Festival, being put on by the Beverley town council. Its taking place in the market place in Beverley between 9am and 4.30pm, and Im there to open the festival at 10 o clock on Sunday morning if you can make it along. Its a family day of cookery, food and fun. Theres a variety of stalls selling local and regional produce. Theres a marquee and cookery demonstrations, competitions and prizes, and also a special celebrity edition of Ready Steady Cook! with our very own Caroline Davies competing against the Mayor of Beverley. BBC Radio Humberside will be there as well. So Ill look forward to seeing you in the market place at 10 o clock on Sunday morning. I hope you can join me. Talking of the weekend, Ive been told about a concert thats going on in the little village of Appleby in North Lincolnshire. They are putting on a music concert in aid of their Church. They write, St Bartholomew is a Grade 2 listed building with a beautiful East Window, which is highly respected for its thin glass, vivid colours and particularly fine lead. This precious window is in a poor state and in danger of collapsing. Initial estimates to restore the church and windows were £75,000, but with unexpected difficulties involving the windows, the final costings will be almost double this. However, for such a tiny community we have managed to raise about £34,000. Our musical concert on Saturday in Appleby Village Hall at 7.15pm will hopefully be the first in many concerts to help with the cost of repairing this wonderful church in the heart of our community So, thats Applebys Last Night of the Proms concert tomorrow night at 7.15pm in the village hall. And of course we! wish them all the best with the concert and with their fundraising. And if youve got an event coming up that youd like a mention for in the Levy Letter, then let me know and send me the details to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Food On the subject of food, were now in the middle of British Food Fortnight and here in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire we have a wealth of local food. Weve been featuring it for most of the year on our Homegrown series and this weekend theres a feast of local food festivals in addition to the one at Beverley that will tantalise your taste buds. Today and tomorrow near Scunthorpe is the North Lincolnshire Food Festival. Its taking place at the Pink Pig Organic Farm at Holme Hall near Scunthorpe and starts both days at 10am. Also on Saturday is the Taste of Lincolnshire Food Fair at the Festival Hall in Market Rasen. Our friend and top chef Rachel Green will be giving demonstrations and theres a host of local producers selling their food. Well worth a look! Pictures If youre out taking pictures at the weekend and youd like them to be shown on the programme, then we always need new pictures. If youre out at these food festivals, then take a few shots for me and let me see what the atmosphere is like where you are. To get in touch you can either send a hard copy to Peter Levy, BBC, Queens Gardens, Queens Court, Hull, HU1 3RH, or you can send them electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hull KR Thanks for all the emails asking me when were going to make the draw for the winning tickets to the Hull KR game. Weve had a huge response, and we wanted to give it a few days to make it absolutely fair to those writing in with their answers. Well be drawing the winner and announcing it on Tuesday next week. Rings Two stories about rings in the news this week. If you cant wait to find out if your baby daughter will become Wimbledon champion one day then help may be at hand. Scientists have discovered that women with ring fingers longer than their index fingers are more likely to be sporty and since hand shape is largely determined before birth, looking at your childs fingers could be a way of discovering the sporting heroines of the future. Typically a womans hand has ring and index fingers of a similar length. Men tend to have longer ring fingers. The researchers, who measured the finger lengths of hundreds of women, recorded their sporting achievements and discovered that those who were more able tended to have slightly longer ring fingers. So there we are. Thats some new research and lets hope not too much money has been wasted on that one! And on the subject of rings - for every absent minded husband, it could be the end of those I forgot my wedding anniversary and ended up in the dog house blues. A ring has been invented that heats up the day before a given date to remind the wearer of the significance. The heat generated by a small internal thermo device comes every hour in a ten second burst, each slightly warmer than the last. It goes up to a non-burning maximum of 45 Celsius. Its called the Remember Ring, and its on sale shortly, and will probably cost about £400. It converts the heat from your hand into electricity, keeping the battery charged and it heats up at a chosen date. For £400 its probably easier to buy a diary and to look at it each day! Christmas I dont now if youve seen any Christmas lights go up. Theres a great story this week from St. Austell. Its a town in Cornwall where the evenings at the moment are very hot and balmy. It was one of the warmest autumn evenings recorded on the Cornish Riviera. Tourists were wandering around in shirt sleeves. Well, what was going up outside? Yes the workmen were there perspiring with the heat in a hydraulic lift as they put up the towns Christmas lights. Are they the first Christmas lights to be put up? Or do we know of some that were even earlier? Well let me know! Gadgets If youve got a pile of gadgets or appliances lying around your house or shut up in cabinets or in the kitchen cupboard that hardly get used, did they seem like a great purchase at the time that would save you time and energy? Well if so, youre not alone. A new report today says we spend a massive 1.75 billion pounds in the UK every year on gadgets that we never use. Now, what do you think are the top ten gadgets that we never use? Well, the Electric grill is number one. A coffee machine is number two. Sandwich toaster is number three. Juicer is number four I bought a juicer and never use it. Electronic bathroom weighing scales is at five Ive never owned any scales. Electric stock pot is number six. Then bread maker at seven. There was a time about ten years ago when everyone was buying bread making machines. Number eight is VOIP free internet phones, I dont even know what that means. Electric steamer at number nine - I bought one of those, its in the kitchen and n! ot been used since I bought it. And Dehumidifiers are at number ten. Daniel ODonnell I was talking to Daniel ODonnell last night on the programme. Hes a huge star but he still finds time to get to know his fans by name! Well hes embarking on a tour soon and he also has a new CD out. If youd like to have a chance to get that CD then you can write to me at the usual address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and well hold a draw for the lucky winner. Well thats it from me, have a very good weekend. If you can make it along to Beverley then I look forward to seeing you on Sunday morning. Join me tonight on BBC 1 at six thirty. 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