Hello, it's Peter here. Welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day's going well and you'll be able to join me tonight as usual on BBC One at half past six. We'll have all the day's news, including two special reports on Hull City Council's surprise decision to sell its shares in Kingston Communications. We'll reveal what it means for customers. Dont miss that if youre a Kingston Communications user.
As thousands of people jet off to the sun for their holidays, we'll meet an ex-cancer sufferer from Grimsby who claims she's being discriminated against on her travel insurance. If you like a drink with a difference, we'll meet the brewers naming ales after local slang terms. Im interested to see what theyve come up with! And he's among the country's greatest living artists, and hes from our region of course. We'll be at the auction of one of David Hockney's early sketches. Of course well also have the full weather forecast from Paul. Thats all coming up at the usual time of half past six on BBC One, dont miss it. Emails There was a big response last night on the programme after we were talking about same sex education for primary school children. We had emails on all sort, keep them coming in, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And dont forget if youve got a story or a subject that you think we should know about, or a problem you think we can deal with on the programme then drop me a line and give me the details. Mums Children whose mothers ate apples and fish while they were pregnant are less likely to grow up with asthma and eczema apparently according to scientists. Researchers found that children whose mothers included apples in their pregnancy diet were less likely to be diagnosed with asthma by the age of five. The offspring of mothers who ate fish at least once a week while pregnant were less likely to develop eczema. These stories keep coming out dont they? Whether theres anything in them or not I dont know. Thats according to scientists who did some research at Aberdeen University relating to food and childrens health. Showbiz Well one of the programmes Ive always enjoyed, Ive mentioned it before, is The Royal. Its on Sunday nights, alternating with Heartbeat. The Royal is a very good programme, its filmed of course on the East Coast around Whitby and Scarborough and other haunts, so its got particular relevance for us. Ive just read that Paul Nicholas is going to be joining the cast, playing a doctor, in the not-to-distant future. So keen was he to do the role that hes pulled out of a tour of the Broadway hit 42nd Street in favour of joining The Royal. So look out for Paul Nicholas, who these days runs a production company alongside David Ian, and puts on theatre tours around the country. Closed Circuit Well there are more and more closed circuit television cameras, hardly a week goes by without another story on the programme about them or indeed footage from one of the cameras which seem to be on every street corner. Well it seems that the Orwellian future of this country is getting out of hand. Its hard to believe that there are 21 million closed circuit television cameras in the whole world, and 4.2 million of them are in Britain. There are 14 people for every camera. Its an extraordinary figure. On one particular roundabout in West London, in Hammersmith, there are 29 cameras. Thats on one roundabout. 78% of the Home Office crime prevention budget has been spent on closed circuit television in the past decade. Frightening, isnt it? Theres 1 camera for every 14 people. Extraordinary. Baftas Im sure you enjoyed the Baftas the other night on the TV. It was a great programme, with some great winners of course, and quite a few comments on those. Well done to Jim Broadbent, Lincolnshire born, for getting the best actor award. Well done as well to Ricky Gervais too, as I mentioned yesterday for his wonderful part in Extras, a great series. Cameras Well I was talking about closed circuit television cameras, theres a new pocket camera thats on the market, or going on the market which means you dont need to focus at all. The camera has a special lens with ten times the normal depth for field - the distance over which a camera can keep the subject in focus. Well using software either within the camera or on a computer, once a picture is taken, you can then put it in focus, so it doesnt matter how out of focus the picture is when you take it, you can refocus it once the picture is taken. The innovation took two years to develop by scientists who call it a heterodyne light field camera. Well thats it from me today, enjoy your afternoon and join me tonight as usual on BBC One at half past six for all the days news on Look North. Drop me a line if you want to, for tomorrow. Take care, 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
