Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays 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 tonights programme, well have the story of a couple living in Gainsborough. If you're a parent, then imagine not being able to see your children for five years. That's the situation for a couple, who fled Zimbabwe and have just been told that their children can't join them as they start their new life in Lincolnshire. Well have their story on the programme. Find out tonight about the proposed changes to the design of the Humber Bridge to help cut the number of the suicides. And tune in tonight to hear hospital managers in Grimsby defend their decision to close a ward for elderly people. And we'll be speaking to the woman, who claims that if a new mobile phone mast is built near her home, it will kill her. Plus it's food for free - we'll be tasting the weed that's growing alongside the banks of the Humber, which is the latest gourmet ingredient. And it's bad enough when the postman brings one bill to your doorstep. We'll have the story of the Lincolnshire man, who's been sent more than one hundred bills in just one day. Thats all tonight on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me then. Emails Thanks for all the emails sent in. We showed a picture of an insect last night that a couple, Paul and Jenny, had spotted in their garden. They had no idea what it was. Well, viewers to Look North certainly knew what it was. The answer is coming up tonight at half past six. Thanks for all the emails on that and also on lots of other subjects as well. Keep them coming in. If youve got a story that you think we should know about or a story that you want us to investigate, then drop me a line. Give me the details and Ill see what we can do. Its the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commuting If you do a long commute to work, then youll be able to understand this one. It seems that theres quite a few people, and I hadnt realised this, who do the journey from Hull to Leeds every day. A lot of people live in Hull and work in Leeds. And just listen to this. Motorists are losing years of their life and thousands of pounds worth of wages by commuting to work. One in six people spend the equivalent of a working day every week just in getting to and from their job. This is the equivalent to two years wasted over a lifetime. And one in ten spends ninety minutes stuck in traffic jams every week or one hundred and thirty-five days over their working life. Just incredible isnt it! One day a week lost just getting to work! Apprentice Its the final tonight and its the posh public school boy versus the single mum, Kristina, who lives in Yorkshire in Harrogate. The stories continue about Katie Hopkins, the contestant, who called herself the Alpha Female and boasted of her affairs with married men and was photographed making love in a cornfield. It seems that according to reports she turned up for work on Monday morning at the Met Office in Exeter as a global brand consultant and they werent too happy with what she had been doing on the show in the last few weeks and she lost her £90,000 job. She was told that some of the things that she had done had not helped the name of the Met Office, so now the Alpha Female is allegedly out of work. Extraordinary story of a girl that actually could have won the show and done really well if she had just played it differently. She seems to have got the backs up of just about everybody in this country. Im sure there are many people absolutely delighted that she did not! win. Mums Nursing mothers will be allowed to breast feed their babies wherever they like under new anti-discrimination laws, which were announced yesterday. Restaurants, cafes and shops, which tried to ban them, will face court action and fines up to £2,500. The move is a victory for pressure groups, who have been asking for greater rights for mothers in the interest of better health for babies. This will mean that mothers of children, up to the age of one year old, will be able to feed them discreetly in public, despite the misgivings of restaurant managers or the possible embarrassment of other diners. The breakthrough for breast feeding campaigners comes in a scheme for a sweeping new single quality bill designed to replace forty years of so-called prejudiced legislation. Basically itll mean that mums will be able to breast feed their babies discreetly in any bars, restaurants and cafes and anyone, who tries to stop you, can face a court action or a fine of up to £2,500. Pictures Dont forget if youve got a photograph or a picture, or a video too, then send them in. Perhaps we should start getting some videos on the programme as well. Let me take a look. Its the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a very good afternoon and if you fancy a night out tonight then live from the Royal Opera House on our Big Screen in Hull is Don Giovanni. A wonderful production live from London in Queen Victoria Square. Its all for free, chairs are provided and coffee will be on sale. And of course, you can take along your own picnic. It starts at 7pm in Queen Victoria Square. Enjoy The Apprentice tonight at 9 oclock and have a very good afternoon. 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
