Hi there, its Peter here. I hope your day is going well. The sun is out for once! Last night, Paul said the weather would stay nice and sunny for the whole weekend. Tune in tonight to see if hes changed his mind yet!
Its a special day today for Look North. Well be out live for the programme outside enjoying the sun hopefully. The whole Look North team will be live at Hull Marina as ten clipper yachts sail into port. They've just completed the Wilberforce Cup race from Rotterdam. Later this year, they'll be taking part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race with novice sailors on board from across our region, who hopefully will very quickly learn the ropes. Well be live at the Hull Marina, so I hope you can join me for that. Also tonight, I'll be talking to Robin Knox-Johnston. Hes the first man to sail around the world non-stop. Ill be asking him how sailing has changed since his expeditions nearly forty years ago. Plus we'll have an announcement about more big sailing events coming to the Humber. So for all things nautical tonight, join us live at Hull Marina for tonights Look North. And I wanted to give a mention in the Levy Letter today about a very special girl and an event thats happening today. A fifteen year old Winifred Holtby student is to have twenty six inches cut off her hair and made into a wig for teenagers suffering from cancer. Amy Smith of Sutton Park in Hull read about a young person with cancer in her Mum's magazine. She was so moved that she resolved to have her hair cut as a sponsored event in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Jean Edwards got in touch with me about this event and says TCT is a fantastic organisation with the principle aim of providing specialist units at NHS hospitals for the care and treatment of teenagers with cancer. So congratulations to Amy. Its a wonderful story and a great idea to help this charity, so best of luck to Amy and to her family and friends and I hope they raise lots of money today. Yesterday in the Levy Letter, I mentioned about the Caxton Players in Grimsby, who have had a lot of damage caused to their theatre, but despite all their problems are still going ahead with their latest production of An Inspector Calls. Well, I noticed this email, which came in yesterday in response, so Ill read it out to you. I have just read today's Levy Letter and was particularly interested in the piece about the Caxton Players of Grimsby. My father, George Edwards, was the manager of the old Plaza Cinema at Riby Square in Grimsby, the building the Caxton Players use today, and I can well remember the problems he had with the rain getting into such an old building. It was so strange to see they are currently presenting the play "An Inspector Calls" as much earlier in his career Dad tried his hand as an actor and was in this particular production. He made us all laugh with his report of the press review he received - "Snowy the dog slept throughout the entire performance, what a shame George Edwards didn't do likewise!!!!!!! Not exactly a BAFTA performance, wouldn't you agree? Thanks for that email go to Avril Taylor from Cleethorpes. So many thanks Avril. Im sure the Caxton Players are hoping for better reviews than that one! All the best to the Caxton Players with their latest production! and their leaky theatre! And comments about the weather are never far from our lips these days are they? It seems that were very reliant on accurate forecasts from weather forecasters too. I hope Paul is on top of things in that respect! Well, I read today that his job should soon be getting easier. The Met Office will soon be able to give out detailed forecasts for individual towns that show precisely where extreme rain will fall. This should all be in place by 2011, when new installed computers will allow forecasters to predict the exact path of storms and heavy rainfall. Currently weather forecasters computers, like Pauls, show roughly about twenty-three square miles, but this planned £120 million pound upgrade will be able to pinpoint weather in areas of just two square miles, meaning that our forecasts should be even more accurate! Well, we can but hope! The Met Office has also said, and Im sure we could have said this for them, that the period of May, June and July this year is already the! wettest in England and Wales since records began in 1766. A previous wet summer in 1789 recorded 14 inches of rain fall, which has just been eclipsed by 15 inches this year. So its been a record breaking summer so far, but for all the wrong reasons! Well, thats it for me for this week. More Levy Letters of course next week. But join us tonight for our live programme at Hull Marina on board the Hull and Humber clipper yacht. Have a lovely weekend, 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
