Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news including a special report on the row over some asylum seekers sub-letting their council properties to migrant workers. Ill be finding out more on this one.
And find out why one Lincolnshire teacher is still trying to clear his name after being wrongly arrested seven years ago on the evidence of a lip reader. Ill have his story on the programme tonight. We'll have a special preview of the local council's bid to win a Las Vegas style casino. I'll have the second in our exclusive report from Hull's twinned town in Sierra Leone and I'll be speaking to the director of the Hollywood blockbuster all about the life of William Wilberforce. And of course, well have the all important weekend weather forecast from Paul! I hope you can join me tonight. Australian Breakfast Well, the weekend is fast approaching and if you havent got anything planned, then I hope you can pop down to see me at the Great Australian Breakfast on Sunday morning. Its starting at 8.30am at The Lawn in Lincoln. Ill be there along with the other BBC Radio Lincolnshire presenters. And its all in aid of some very worthy Lincolnshire charities, so I hope you can support it. See you there! Mobile Phones Well, motorists across the region are being warned about the introduction of tougher penalties for using a mobile phone while driving. Humberside Police officers will be running road side checks to warn drivers that they face a sixty pound fine and also three penalty points after February 27th. Officers are planning a series of crack down checks. The road safety campaign group, The Royal Society For The Prevention Of Accidents has welcomed the move. They say that if youre one of those people that are using their mobile, then those drivers are the ones that are prepared to risk others, because they feel too important to miss a call. They say that they deserve to be brought to book. Those are the words of one police constable in Hull. Its a sixty pound fine for using the mobile at the wheel. You have been warned. DVDs Can you believe this? In our age of disposable technology, it was perhaps inevitable that one day this would happen. A DVD player can now be bought for less than one of the disks themselves! One of the high street supermarkets is offering a DVD player for £9! This compares to the price of £10.97 for a top of the chart DVD. Eight hundred to eighty thousand of the compact machines will go on sale in stores across the country. They were made in China and theyre on sale at just £9. As recently as four years ago, a DVD player would have cost £250! Now theyre on sale at £9. Can you believe that? Big Day She had the dress, the cake, the two hundred wedding guests ready to toast her happiness, but unfortunately, for Emma Knight, she didnt have a bride groom. With just days to go, the champagne practically on ice, her fiancé, Paul Fox suddenly decided that he wasnt ready for marriage. But Emma decided that she would refuse to give in and would still have a party. More than a hundred guests turned up and they had the party and it went ahead and they toasted with champagne. And now she has put in the local paper all her wedding items for sale. Unused, of course, one wedding dress, one headdress, two oyster bridesmaids dresses, two pairs of matching bridesmaids shoes and the list goes on. So there you are. She was jilted on her big day, but she didnt let it get her down and had the party anyway! Stories Dont forget if youve got a story that you think we should know about and use on the programme, then let me know what it is, tell me the details and well see if we can do it on the programme. If youve got a picture that youre proud of that we can show on the Big Screen, then send it to me to the same address as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ill look forward to hearing from you. If youre chatting with anyone over the weekend, whos not signed up for the Levy Letter, then point them in the direction of either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. Get them to sign up and theyll then get their first daily email from me the following day. Weekend Whatever youve got planned this weekend, then I hope it goes very well. As I was saying a couple of minutes ago, Im off to Lincoln on Sunday morning at The Lawn. If you can make it down, then I look forward to meeting you there in person! Have yourself a breakfast and enjoy the atmosphere down there. Our cameras will be there as well and its all for a good cause. Have a very good weekend. Join me tonight. Bye for now 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
