Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. I'll have all the day's news and Paul will have the forecast. I believe though its going to rain in all parts of the country today. Find out if tomorrow looks any better tonight at half past six.
On tonight's programme, we'll have the latest as the trial starts today of the four teenagers accused of the murder of fifteen year old Lee Conman from East Hull. Ill have more on that tonight. All yesterday and this morning, Ive been inundated with messages and emails about your experiences of getting parking tickets in the region. This has certainly wound you up and you had a lot to say about traffic wardens! Tonight on the programme, I'll have more on the row over parking tickets. I'll be talking to one man, who got a fine because his disabled badge was upside down. Ill have his story tonight. And the theatre is very much alive in our region today. We'll be at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln at their auditions speaking with the young hopefuls vying for a part as Annie in their new musical. If youre involved in those auditions today, then of course break a leg! I hope it goes well. And we'll be with the Russian ballet company with a difference, who are trying to persuade theatre goers that big is better. The ballerinas are all over eighteen stone! Can you believe that? And are hoping to prove that size does not matter when it comes to ballet! Well, theyre in Hull tonight performing at the New Theatre. And well be talking backstage with the company before their performance. All that tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. Response As I said, I had a huge response from last nights programme. We were talking about the lady making the soft toys of Mini cars and who had got a letter from BMW threatening legal action. We were also talking about parking tickets. I had a huge response about all of those. Ill be reading through all of those as the day unfolds and Ill be reading some views out on the programme. During the day, if you want to comment on anything that we do in the letter or if you want to tell me about anything youve seen or read about, then get in touch. Drop me a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Particularly looking forward to reading about any problems or issues that you think I might be able to tackle on the programme. Give me those details as well and a contact telephone number too. I cant remember why, but we were talking about look-alikes yesterday in the Letter and I was saying that when I was younger people used to say that I looked like Tony Bastable from Magpie. Well, only a handful of people will actually remember who on earth Tony Bastable is, let alone remember Magpie. Lo and behind, theres always somebody, whos on the same wave length as me. Dee Rigby got in touch and even sent me a picture of myself and also a picture of the cover of the TV magazine Look In, which I used to buy when I was a young boy and there is Tony on the front cover. And I still think theres quite a resemblance. But Dee, Im not sure how you managed to do that, but thats very clever. Youre obviously more advanced on the computer than I am! Thanks very much indeed for sorting that out for me. Single Parents The Education Secretary and Hull MP will today launch a controversial defence of single mothers arguing that the quality of childrens upbringing is more important than whether their parents are married. Alan Johnson will challenge the growing consensus that supporting families is the best way to help children and prevent the growth of gun crime and anti social behaviour. His words will widen a rift at the top of government at whether ministers should be supporting marriage through the tax system. Its quite an interesting subject to read about and talk about. Alan Johnson was talking on national television this morning about it. And for those of us, who were brought up by only one parent, I suppose were slightly biased in our views. But have single mothers at the moment, or in the past, had the finger pointed at them too readily? Your views on that would be gratefully received - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Have you been watching Dancing On Ice and following it on Saturday night? Ive been glued to it, which is a bit sad I know. But its going so well. Ive enjoyed it immensely. Kieron and also Claire look as if theyre the favourites. Both are skating brilliantly and both are great to watch. Claire has had a bit of bad publicity, saying that shes been on ice before, after telling people that she hadnt ever skated before, allegedly. Either way, they both look as if they could be going into the finals. So one of those could be the winner. Its prompted, like the last series, loads more interest in skating and skating rinks have never been busier. Its always fascinated me in this country that we have so few ice skating rinks. Abroad, theyre virtually in ever town, but here I dont think weve got many across the whole country. You can go for miles without finding any. So we are indeed lucky to have two ice skating rinks nearby one in Hull and one in Doncaster as well. Films Ive mentioned this before in the Levy Letter. Im not a great lover of the cinema. I think its because I love the theatre so much. When you go to the cinema, it always seems a bit tamer and theres always people eating and drinking around you and tall people sat in front of you. But if theres something I really want to go and see, then Ill motivate myself to go. Im a big fan of Hugh Grant. He really makes me laugh. I went at the weekend to see Music and Lyrics. Its a cheesy feel-good film, but I thought it was very good. If anyone else has seen it, then you might like to agree or disagree. That was on Saturday at the weekend. Then on Sunday night, they had a rerun of Brigit Jones on the TV. So two lots of Hugh Grant at the weekend. Thats even sadder to admitting watching Dancing On Ice, but enjoyable nevertheless. Sad News One of the first people I got to know when I arrived in Hull was Sue Roach. Sue was the Head of the Victoria Dock School and one of the key players in this city. I was so sad to hear that she died on Saturday. I hadnt been in Hull five minutes when she got in touch with me and she invited me to open the extension to the school. On the day I turned up at the school, soon after she found out that John Prescott was coming as well. Suddenly the Deputy Prime minister was more important than me!!! And he opened the extension, but in true Sue style, I was there and she looked after me and got me very much involved. Since then myself and Radio Humberside's Andy Comfort met Sue many times and she was always full of energy and enthusiasm for the school and its pupils. We both liked her enormously. She often saw talents in people that they themselves hadnt spotted, My sympathies go out to Sue's family and friends. I know that the staff and the pupils will miss Sue very much at the sc! hool. My best wishes to them. Well, that's it from me for today. Despite the forecast, have a very good day. Join me tonight if you can on BBC One at 6.30pm. 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
