Hello, it's Peter here. Welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day's going well and you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. We'll have all the day's news and stories from our region as usual.
We'll be finding out why junior doctors who've been trained in Hull and worked in our hospitals can't now get jobs here. We ask who's to blame for spending thousands of their training and then leaving them unemployed. It's the end of an era in Cleethorpes as the contents of the historic Winter Gardens are auctioned off. In just a few weeks time the practice of docking dogs tails will become illegal. We'll be hearing from the dog breeder who's trying to get this change in the law reversed and says she has the support of hundreds of breeders across the country. And do you really know where your food comes from? Well a Lincolnshire chef is urging everyone to think more about what they eat... she'll be telling us why we should all get to see what happens in an animal slaughter house. Maybe there would be a few more vegetarians after that And Paul will be back with the weather forecast tonight. Thats Look North at half past six on BBC One as usual. Emails Thanks for the emails on all sorts of subjects. I touched on smoking the other day. Ive had loads of emails in on that. Ive also been hearing this week that health chiefs are spending thousands of pounds ordering churches to put up signs banning smoking. The decision has left religious leaders bemused, and they say that nobody smokes in places of worship anyway. If you think about it, I cant remember the last time I saw anybody with a cigarette lit up in church. But now a smoking ban in all enclosed public places comes into effect in just a few weeks from now, and churches are one of those places which will be covered. Health chiefs are spending lots of money putting up signs warning people that they cant smoke in church, as if they do already. Well I want your views on the smoking ban and churches. Do let me know and get in touch. Older Men Older men who drink moderate amounts of alcohol are better at routine tasks such as walking and climbing than teetotallers according to scientists. That means I should be good at climbing, but wouldnt know where to start. Apparently a few drinks are better for you in older years. Sea Side A lot of stories this week about the death of the seaside. We were reporting yesterday from Withernsea. Therell be more on this on the politics show on BBC One on Sunday morning looking at our East Coast resorts. Thats BBC One at half past eleven on Sunday. But your thoughts on our seaside resorts on the East Coast. Have they had it? What needs to be done? Get in touch with your thoughts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, if you have any relatives who are serving with the Yorkshire regiment in Iraq, well Id like to hear from you. Get in touch at the usual address. John Inman I was sad to hear this morning when I put the radio on about the death of John Inman, comic actor. He was a very funny man, and he played Mr Humphries of course for many years in Are You Being Served. Ive interviewed John four or five times over the years, and he was a real gentleman. Very quiet, very reserved. He was a huge star in Australia. Are You Being Served was massive over there and he used to spend a lot of time over there. So thats sad news with his death today. Alarm Clock Well weve heard of some unusual alarm clocks just recently, but this one takes the biscuit, and maybe takes the bacon. Its called the Wake n Bacon. Not only does it tell you the time, but itll cook your breakfast every morning, and wake you up with the mouth watering smell of fresh bacon. When the alarm goes off youre woken by the sound of sizzling bacon instead of by a jarring alarm. All users have to do is place a frozen strip of bacon into a cooking tray inside the clock before going to bed. Once the alarm is triggered, the clock sends a signal to two halogen lamps which gently cook the bacon under the sleepers nose. So you wake up in the morning and all youve got is one cooked rasher of bacon. I mean, what use is that? And why would you want a smelly piece of bacon in your bedroom all night? Well the Wake n Bacon alarm clock is out now if you want one. I dont know how much it costs, but I cant imagine anybody buying it. Carol Carol Vorderman is 46, she posed in stockings and little else for a mens magazine, we remember the story back in 2004. Well shes split up with her long term lover, and according to one of the articles I was reading, wants to flaunt her curves again. Id like to strip down to my smalls for another shoot. Im happy with the way I look, and you need to do these things while you still have a body to do it. So says Carol Vorderman, aged 46. Im sure somebody somewhere will be ringing her today as we speak. Connie Well we had much in the letter last year when the programme was on, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria. The wonderfully talented Connie Fisher, well as you know she went into the Sound of Music. Shes 23 by the way. And shes been doing it for two or three months now, well she worked through a cold, and shes now lost her voice. Her damaged voice means that shes going to have to pull out of the show. A spokesperson said Shes taking time off, maybe two weeks. She knows shes let people down but shes a real trooper. Shes strained her voice and shes at risk of making it much worse. So there we are. She opened in that in November. One of the interesting things about that, and this is not the first time this has happened, somebody who does a major musical and does every performance rather than just doing some performances always seems to end up in trouble and having to pull out. Its happened now to Connie as well. Of course at 23 youre not that experienced in show business. We wish her well, Connie Fisher, Im sure shell be back in the Sound Of Music. One of the dangerous things that seems to happen in the West End is that somebody stands in and they say, Oh the understudys better than her. The understudy in this particular case is somebody called Sophie Bould, who is 26. Well follow Connie Fishers story with interest. Well thats it from me today, have a very good day and join me tonight at half past six. 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
