Hello, it's Peter here. Welcome to the start of another week on the Levy Letter, and also Look North. I hope you had a good weekend. If you had something planned or organised I hope it went well. The weather forecast on Saturday wasnt perhaps quite as good as was hinted by the diminutive weatherman, but nevertheless it wasnt a bad weekend. Dont forget if theres anyone you know thats not signed up to the Levy Letter and theyd like one, then get them to go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, and sign up, or they can go to our webpage www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull, click on Levy Letter and sign up. Of course that web address also gives you access to the programme. If you get in late of an evening and youve missed Look North then you can see the full programme there, or just little bits of it if there was a particular report you want to see. Thats all on our new website and its going very well indeed.
And I hope 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. Well meet the prison reformer who wants to see inmates allowed to vote and the Tory MP from Lincolnshire whos set against it. Well take a look at the road that's claimed more lives than the worst recorded serial killer. Its the A46, and its so infamous its prompted a new documentary to be made about it. Well also meet the Beverley joiner taking part in the Clipper around the world yacht race. We ask why Beverley is going polo crazy. And also on the show tonight, why the biggest greenhouse in Britain is being hailed an environmental success Showbiz Just a couple of showbiz bits to mention, thank you very much for all the emails asking if we can have Beverley Knight on the programme, she seems to be hugely popular. Well shes not going to be on Look North, but I tell you what, Ill just give her a little advanced plug because shes coming to the Grimsby Auditorium on the 9th of November. Thats certainly an early booking. And weve had a lot of emails saying how much people have been enjoying the Dame Edna Experience on Saturday night on the television. Dame Edna is of course played by Barry Humphries. How he gets away with some of the things he says to the guests I dont know, but he has been hugely funny. The other night he was absolutely wicked to the model Kimberley Stuart, or Kimmy as he called her, Rod Stuarts daughter. He even got Rod Stuart on the phone. I remember about 6 or 7 years ago now interviewing Barry Humphries on the radio and we trailed that Dame Edna was coming in, and in came Barry in a suit, shirt and tie. I shook hands with him, there was a record playing, he sat down. He said Oh by the way old boy, all in character. In other words, dont speak to him as Barry but as Dame Edna. I said Dame Edna, good morning. He did the whole interview opposite me, as a man, but with the Dame Edna voice, which was pretty surreal. But so convincing is he that you fall straight into it and just go along with it, so youre interviewing a man in a suit who is playing a woman on the radio and everybody is imagining just Dame Edna and can visualise what she looks like. Its amazing stuff. Just one more thing, its been absolutely slated and I heard on Radio Humberside last night Jonathan Parker talking about this, he had Vicki Michelle on, talking about this new musical that stars Su Pollard, Menopause The Musical. Ive never seen a show thats been quite as slated as this in reviews. Its been absolutely torn to pieces. Well see how that one runs, I suspect not for too long. Post Office It was announced last week, and I must admit I was one of the people who found this the hardest to believe, that the post office in Hull is to close. 70 post offices are going to close around the country, but Hull was one of the biggest places to lose their post office. I dread going to the post office in Jameson Street because theres always such a long queue and its always so busy and you feel for the people behind the counters. Its even harder to believe that it will close and WH Smith are going to have to do the work instead. Thanks for all the emails, theres been loads from people saying that they cant believe it either. Well the union representing the workers in the Post Office, the Communication Workers Union, reckons 3,000 jobs will go in the process. I think it might just be thrown in as a sort of discussion point by the Post Office, I cant actually see it going, I have to admit. Well follow the story of course as we do with all the ones that everybodys talking about. If theres a story youve got that you think we should know about, or if youve got a problem you think we should tackle then drop me a line, give me the details and give me a contact number as well. Several people last week including the people who were made redundant from Skeltons, their first port of call was to get in touch with us and tell us, so thats the best thing to do if you know a story, email me right away at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caffeine Well if you want to wake up in the mornings but you havent got time for a cup of coffee or maybe you dont like coffee but you still want the kick that caffeine will give you then the answer is here. If you dont have time to grab a cup of coffee before you go off to work then try a caffeinated bar of soap on the shower. Its designed to give you the same boost in the morning. A firm says its created a soap which gives the effect of drinking two cups of coffee every time sleepy people lather their bodies with it. The caffeine soaks into the pores of the body and gives you the same effects. Caffeine soap is on sale soon. Well thats it from me today, join me tonight for Look North on BBC One 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
