Hello and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter, the last day before the weekend. I hope if youve got something planned that it goes well for you, hopefully the weather will hold up, it hasnt been too bad in our region lately and Lincolnshire especially has been getting some sun. Of course well have the weather forecast for the weekend tonight on the programme. Also coming up tonight on Look North, as Lincolnshire health chiefs hunt down women treated by a doctor with a potentially lethal blood disease, we'll speak to one woman he operated on earlier this year. Remember, if youve been affected by this you can get in touch and tell us your story, and dont miss our report today.
We'll look at why more Lincolnshire Police will soon be carrying weapons. In sport theres news of two big possible signings by Hull City, and well be looking ahead to the all important Hull rugby derby this weekend. And also on Look North today, ahead of the maritime festival, I'll meet the men in beards bringing sea shanties to Hull Marina! Thats on the programme tonight at the usual time of six thirty on BBC One. Driving Weve had a couple of driving and road related news items on the programme this week. We were talking about motorcyclists of course, and yesterday we interviewed a gentleman who wanted to bring in compulsory health checks for older drivers. Weve had a massive response on both of those, thanks for all the emails. There was a big debate on whether older drivers should have to undergo checkups, everybody has something to say on that, and we had an email from Daphne in Kings Lynn prompted by all this talk of driving, she says, I think all of us could do our bit to make the roads safe. The nights are pulling in and when coming home the other night I noticed quite a few cars with only one head light on and others with just side lights on, I think during summer we forget about checking that our lights work and then before we know it the evening are getting darker, so time for us all to remember to check our lights are working, it might just save a life. A very good suggestion there from Daphne, thank you for that. Cheap Gadgets I see today that one of the big supermarkets is offering a digital television Freeview box for just £10. I was reading an article about it in the news today, and how the price of electronic gadgets and gizmos is falling through the floor and the possible consequences. Its amazing how the prices of some things seem to keep falling and when they get to the point when you think they cant go any lower, they do. I remember not long ago a digital television box was quite an expensive item and now you can pick one up at the supermarket for ten pounds. The article I was reading explained that the supermarkets can offer such cheap goods, only just above the price of manufacturing, by buying in bulk. Of course one of the issues raised by such cheap consumer electronics is will they last very long, and when we eventually discard them, whats going to happen to all the wasted obsolete technology? Theres an environmental issue there, but I have to say that despite all these cheaper prices, when something new comes out and everybody wants it, they always seem to find a way of making it quite expensive, at least in the beginning. Of course if you havent switched over to digital television, youll have to do so before 2012 when the analogue television signals will be turned off permanently, so if youve got a spare tenner, maybe nows the time! Well thats about it from me for today, as always if you want to get in touch with me to let me know about a news story or some information, or maybe you want to send us a picture to show before the weather you can reach me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drop me a line and that will go to me directly. Thanks for reading, Ill be back next week with Mondays Levy Letter, until then join me tonight at half past six on BBC One for Look North and have a good weekend. 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
