Good afternoon to you all! Its Peter here with todays Levy Letter. Tonight on the programme, we'll have the story of the couple, who went to Thailand to get married and to have a holiday of a lifetime, but were caught up in the recent plane crash. We'll have more local reaction to the fears that four people from our region were killed in the plane crash in Thailand.
Plus, so many Look North viewers are sending in thoughts and best wishes for the family involved in last weekends accident when a landrover crashed into the River Witham. It seems that this tragedy has touched so many people in our region and of course our thoughts too are with the family at this incredibly difficult time. Today, as their distraught father pays a loving tribute to his four children, who have since died following the accident, we'll get the very latest on the continuing investigation. Also tonight on the programme, we'll have a special report on the ceremony to mark forty years of RAF Hemswell. We'll have pictures of all the people, who have served at the base over the years, including shots of todays flypast of a Lancaster bomber. And it's cost £200 billion pounds, but will it be enough to put Hull into the super league of shopping? Before shoppers get a chance to whip out their credit cards, Look North will get a sneak preview of St Stephens shopping centre before it opens tomorrow. Plus they're serving their time, plus a few gourmet dishes as well. We'll meet the prisoners, who are cooking up a storm as trainee chefs. And find out why the glasses of the late Richard Whiteley are heading off to Africa. Thats all tonight on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me then. Well, the switch off date of 2011 for our area is gradually ticking away as more and more of us start moving over to digital or satellite TV services. However, I often still see emails and messages coming in from people, who cant get digital signal in their area and are still watching on analogue services. So this must be concerning to those people. I read that traditional TV sets that can only receive the basic five channels are to be phased out in shops from next year. A big supermarket chain, high street electrical retailers and TV equipment producers have all said that from next year theyll stop selling analogue TVs and focus solely on selling and developing the digital service. Even set top digital boxes wont be the norm either as combo multi-channel digital TVs will be widely available. So the end is on the horizon for analogue TV, but rest easy, its not just yet for people in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. I believe Cumbria will be the first in about 2008 or 2009 and! well be following in 2011. But I know that many of you still have questions about digital and are unsure about how you can get our programme on the service. So if you do have any queries, then take a look at the BBCs website on bbc.co.uk/digital or if you still have concerns then get in touch with us direct. And have you recently had to sit in a GPs waiting room for an appointment with your doctor? Well, that could be about to change. You could, in theory, pop into a supermarket for a bit of shopping and then visit your GP on the way out. Or head off to the gym for a jog and have a chat with your GP in the cloakroom. Apparently, theres to be a massive shake up in the way GP surgeries are operated amid fears that too many working days are lost when employees have to take a day off work to see their doctor. Ministers are hoping that big name chains will bid to run surgeries on behalf of the NHS, which will hopefully offer more flexible opening hours to suit people, who normally work during surgery hours. They think well find it easy to pop to the doctors, if the surgeries are based nearby in local supermarkets, gyms or high street shops. Im sure we might all approve of decisions like that, but I think theyre more concerned with the figures that show that more than £1 billion p! ounds is frittered away by lost working hours caused by employees needing time off work to go to the doctors. So does that sound like a good idea to you if doctors surgeries are moved into local shops or gyms? Get in touch as usual on this one, if youd like to comment on this. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual. Well, that's it from me for now. Have a very good day and join me tonight for Look North as usual. Dont forget, all our bulletins are available on the Internet, just in case you happen to miss a show. Individual stories are on there as well if you wanted to watch any of them back. Its bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. Take a look! 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
