Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on Look North at half past six as usual. Well be continuing our coverage of day four of the worst June Floods to hit the region in living memory.
We'll be live in Hedon tonight as the town deals with water overcoming the Burstwick drain. Well try to keep you up with latest developments. We visit one of the worst affected areas at Wainfleet as efforts continue to clean up the town, and we'll be with one blind man affected by the floods. So many people are struggling to cope, and the situation is of course particularly serious for the disabled. And we're at Grantham as the army pay tribute to a young soldier killed on exercise near Catterick. There's shock sports news as Brazilian star footballer Juninho opens talks with Hull City. And we'll have the latest on the campaign to scrap Humber Bridge tolls, theres been a big debate on this one. Plus why bird watchers are flocking to Digby Fen near Boston. Thats all coming up on the programme tonight at 6.30, dont miss that. Well the forecast is for more rain this weekend, so I hope youre prepared if you think theres any risk of flooding. Well have the latest weather on the show today as usual. Of course the clear up is still going on throughout the country, with our region hit particularly bad as we all know. Hopefully we can get through this bad weather and on to the hot, hot summer thats predicted this year. I think we deserve a bit of sun after all this rain. Wimbledon Well just when we all thought he was getting to the end of the road, Tim Henman is fighting back and looking like he might be keeping us on the edge of our seats a bit longer than many expected. Fingers crossed as always, although he does have a way of making the nation suffer, doesnt he? Of course there is a local girl taking part in the competition this year, and hopefully for many years to come. Katie OBrien from Hessle had to wait to play her second round match at Wimbledon. Yesterday she was delayed by yes youve guessed it rain. Well shes playing today. I dont want to predict a result, but good luck to her. Well what does Katie dream of spending her prize money on? Well its not a flash car or expensive jewellery. If things go well for her this year she might be spending her cash on a house in Hull! So thats Katie OBrien, shes 21 and ranked the best female tennis player in Britain, and she wants to stay around in this area. Good for her. Events A quick plug here for the Lincolnshire branch of the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club. They call themselves the Missing Lincs and theyre hosting their first Bike Night at The Ebrington Arms, Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire, near Woodhall Spa, Monday July 2nd from 7pm. So go along if youre into Triumph motorcycles. Theres a barbecue and a bar, and Missing Lincs Chairman Chippy Wood says: We are hoping that we can play host to Lincolnshires bikers. Club members have an interesting mix of Triumph Motorcycles that span the best part of sixty years, from the early fifties to bang up to date 2007 machines. Make it along if you can. Pictures Thank you for all the pictures weve been receiving of the floods and water recently. As I mentioned yesterday, were planning a special montage of some of them at the end of the week, so dont miss that, there have been some remarkable images, and hopefully ones we wont see repeated for a long time. And as always, if you have any interesting stories or something you think we should know about, you can drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well thats it from me for now. Join me a bit later for Look North at 6.30. Hannah Moffat has the lunch time news today, thats at 1.30. 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
