Hello, its Peter here and welcome to the Levy Letter for this Wednesday. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on Look North at half past six. Coming up tonight well have the story of the mother from Cleethorpes whos been missing from her home for five days and police say they're increasing worried about her safety. We'll have the latest on the search.
Next month Hull's main post office will close down. It's being moved into WH Smiths but staff have been forced to re-apply for their jobs on less wages and customers are worried it'll mean a worse service. We'll be trying to find out what the future holds for our post offices, and what impact this will have on the people of Hull who rely on the service. Im sure a lot of people will have something to say on this. Despite the weather the show must go on and in Driffield they're confident this year's agricultural show will be one to remember. We'll have all the highlights from that and more on Look North tonight. Six hundred years and six hundred thousand pounds of restoration work later... now the remains of Thornton Abbey in Lincolnshire are being opened to the public. We'll be taking a look around. And they've ruined hundreds of houses but today well take a look at the hundreds of acres of crops that have been damaged by floods. We'll find out what advice and help is being offered to our farmers. You dont often think of the damage caused to agricultural land by the water, but its damaged lots of livelihoods and in an area like this its having a huge impact. Its been a busy week for stories on Look North, and weve had lots and lots of emails, texts, and answer phone messages in every day, so thank you for those and keep them coming in. Yesterday we had a story about proposals to cut health care, and lots of people had something to say about that. I wonder what the next big response will be about. Vitamins I dont know if you saw this story today, its something that might surprise a lot of people. Scientists have claimed that taking supplements of Vitamin C will not offer protection from the common cold. Although people under extreme stress like marathon runners could reduce their risk of catching a cold by half with daily vitamin C, for the rest of us the effects could be so small that the cost outweighs the benefits. Its incredible the things that they tell you about health that later get contradicted by other researchers, isnt it? Of course for a long time now weve been told to take supplements of vitamins to help prevent illnesses, and if this study is true, it could all have been a waste of money, although for all we know somebody would come out with another study tomorrow saying the exact opposite and wed believe it! According to scientists, we can get the health boosting powers of vitamin C through eating five portions of fruit and veg a day. So taking a vitamin C tablet every day does not actually make a big difference to your health. Thats probably something the booming health supplement industry wont be glad to hear. Ive got a couple of events to plug in the Levy Letter today, theres a production of Dancin On The Sidewalk at the Middleton Hall between the 27th -29th of July. Its been performed by local children from the South Hunsley School Dance Studio. If you like dance then that sounds wonderful. And this coming weekend is the 2nd annual Lincolnshire Pride festival in Lincoln. This year it'll be a whole lot bigger as it's held at The Engine Shed at the University of Lincoln. It starts at 10am on both Saturday and Sunday with live entertainment all day and late into the night. All the details are at www.lincolnshirepride.com and pictures will be added to the website all over the weekend so people can see what's going on if they want to take a look before they come, or can't attend all of the event. Make it along to those if you can. If you havent had a chance to look at our website then do it now, you can find it at www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull and you can watch the latest Look North programmes, download some of the top stories in bite sized packages, and read profiles of some of our presenters and reporters. If you know anybody who wants to sign up to the Levy Letter then they can also find the link there at our website, click on Levy Letter and they can sign up straight away. Well thats about it from me today, have a good day and join me tonight for Look North at half past six on BBC One. 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
