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 as usual. I'll have all the day's news and Paul will have the forecast.
On tonight's programme, we'll have the latest from the court case where an HGV lorry driver is accused of killing three members of the same family in a crash on a Lincolnshire road. Ill have the very latest on this. Plus, this afternoon, were at a meeting at Bridlington Hospital. Today theyre making decisions about the future of vital services for the region. Well be finding out what the future holds for this local hospital. Hull has the lowest church attendance in the country. I'll be finding out why and what can be done to secure the future of our churches. Plus Brigg in North Lincolnshire is staging its first ever Easter Passion play in the Market Place this Good Friday. We'll be talking to the organisers and the school boy, who'll be performing the part of Jesus. And Morecambe has its own statue of the comedian Eric Morecambe, but should Hull have its own monument to the fifties crooner, David Whitfield? The David Whitfield Appreciation Society certainly think so! Ill be talking to them tonight. I hope you can join me then. Last Night Thanks for all the emails after last nights programme and after yesterdays Levy Letter on the subject of smoking. Keep those coming in. Theyre certainly divided! Ill be reading some of those out on the programme this evening. Also last night, we had the picture of the fish that we showed you. We were asking what it is! It was certainly big whatever it was. Some people have said that it was an April Fools and said that we were taken in hook, line and sinker! Apparently, theres a French custom where school children pin fish to the backs of friends on April Fools Day. Not sure why, but theyve done it for years. And some people are saying its an Ore fish. Thanks for the response on that. Im still not sure! Also, thanks for all comments that have come in from people, who are really disgusted at the closed circuit television pictures we showed last night of the man going into a vets surgery and swiping the charity box from the counter. Not only did he do this once, but twice! Hopefully, well have an update on this tonight on the programme. However, if you saw the footage last night and you think you know who that man was, who stole the charity boxes, then get in touch with Crimestoppers. They want to hear from you and their number is 0800 555 11. So get in touch with Crimestoppers if you know anything about that theft in a vets surgery. Weather It was a beautiful day yesterday. I sat out in Queens Gardens for my lunch. I dont think Ill be doing that again today. If youre heading to the Mediterranean this week, then youll be amongst about three and a half million people and its not such good news for you. Spain has already been hit by flash floods. And theres an awful lot of wind down there as well and it has been there for the last two or three weeks. Well, travellers to Italy will also find it much cooler than usual with temperatures in Milan at below ten Celsius this week. It is warmer here than in Milan. For those, who are heading to Europe this weekend in the hope of escaping the miserable Easter weather, well the forecast are clouds and a deep depression. Youd be better off staying here! Sorry for having to bring you such bad news! And if youre staying put in this region for the Easter bank holiday weekend, then youre doing the right thing. Bridge According to Government records, after thirty years, construction plans are available to all to have a look at. Thirty years on and well be finding out about the possibility of an alternative to the Channel Tunnel. Instead there would have been a twenty-one mile long, two hundred and twenty-foot high suspension bridge going across the Dover Straits from England to France. Mrs Thatchers Tory Government almost gave the go-ahead in the early eighties to a three billion pound suspension bridge across the Channel. For a toll of £5.60, motorists would have been able to drive all the way across on a six lane motorway. It would have been an enormous tourist attraction and it was predicted that by the year 2010, just a few years away, forty thousand cars and lorries would be using the bridge every day. And, there is a diagram of it as well and it was modelled on the 1.4 mile Humber Bridge, which connects North Lincolnshire to East Yorkshire. This was back in the early eighties, whe! n the bridge was only just coming into fruition. They say that this twenty-one mile bridge would have taken ten years to build. I would imagine, given how long it took to build the Humber Bridge, that it would have taken a lot longer than that. It was a plan though and it got thrown out. What a shame! There could have been a bridge over the Channel and we could have driven all the way from England to France. News of that has only just come out. Pictures I was talking about the pictures we got of the CCTV in the vets surgery. Every time that you come across some pictures or youve taken some pictures that you think we could use on the programme, then think of us first. And if theres a story that you think we should be investigating or looking into, then drop me a line. If its urgent, then ring me at the BBC in Hull on 01482 323232 or give me the details via email on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get in touch if theres something you think we should be doing on the programme. Bed Push Symone got in touch with me the other day to let me know about a charity event shed organised. It was for HER Breast Friends, which stands for the Hull and East Riding Breast Friends and is a local support group, which has been formed by ladies in the region, who have been affected by Breast Cancer. The group offers support to women suffering from Breast cancer and they raise funds for the Oncology Departments at local hospitals. Well, it wasnt an April Fools, but last weekend on April 1st, they did a sponsored bed push from the Army camp at Leconfield, through Beverley and into the Castle Hill Hospital grounds. So some wonderful work there by Symone and Her Breast Friends group. Well done to them with their bed push! Well, that's it from me for now. If you want to comment on anything, or if you want to let me know what youre up to today, then get in touch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch out for your Levy Letter again tomorrow and have a good afternoon. 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