Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter for Wednesday. Were halfway through the week and it seems to be getting colder as we go. I hope youre wrapping up warm. Well have the latest forecast on the programme later of course, and also on the programme today we'll hear about the Grimsby fireman struck on the head with a piece of fencing in the latest in a series of attacks on the brigade's officers.
Well be asking what now for Woodford? There are concerns as one of Hull's most important sports facilities could be closed because of flood damage. And well report on why the famous stately home Burghley House is a big hit in the movies. We'll be meeting the boy theyre calling the Kamikaze Kid, he's a 12 year old schoolboy who's just won his second British motorcycling title. Plus find out why your business could be in trouble if you use a radio at work. Thats all coming up on Look North tonight at half past six on BBC One, I hope you can join me then. We had a huge response on our hotlines, email, and text last night on our story about parking fines at hospitals. Thank you for all of those, especially the stories of your experiences. Its always good when we find a story or an issue that really affects a lot of people, and we like to see what we can do to help. If you have anything to let us know about for the programme or a comment youd like to make on one of our stories, you can reach Look North on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and well give our text and hotline numbers out on the programme. WAGs Well I dont know if this means anything to you, but apparently, WAGs stands for the wives and girlfriends of famous footballers. That goes slightly over my head to be honest, but it seems not a lot goes over theirs. The glamorous, shopping addicted partners of high earning footballers are not as dumb as people like to think they are. According to the government Learning and Skills Council, some of the highest profile WAGs set a good example to teenagers through their academic achievements. Yes, thats right, in addition to attending film premiers and posing in magazines, footballers partners study law, hold degrees in business, and Coleen McLoughlin, the girlfriend of England star Wayne Rooney thats what it says here anyway holds ten GCSE qualifications. However, perhaps the footballers wife we all know about, Victoria Beckham, wasnt a big academic success at school. So if youre the glamorous wife or girlfriend of a successful footballer, you can still be brainy an! d get qualifications. Perhaps the opposite is also true, and if youre a hard working academic success, never fear, you too could one day marry a millionaire sports person and live a life of expensive shops and leisure Chocolate Factory Well there seem to be plenty of chocolate based pieces in the news this week, and this ones quite an inspiring success story. A 15 year old boy with severe dyslexia has become a successful chocolate entrepreneur, now running his own factory and with contracts to supply some of the countrys biggest supermarket chains this Christmas. Its an incredible story given how young he is, and also the fact that he left school when he was 11 due to his dyslexia, and started out with a 12oz chocolate machine making confectionary for friends and family. Hes now so successful that his parents now work for him full time, and one of his employees is his former home tutor. I just hope he treats his employees well, imagine working for your 15 year old son! But thats a fantastic story, his factory in Shropshire is producing hundreds of chocolates, and Im sure hell be a huge success. Ive just got room for a plug here for the Petuaria Players of Brough in East Yorkshire who are performing Plaza Suite by Neil Simon, this Thursday, Friday and Saturday 25th, 26th and 27th October at Elloughton Village Hall. Performances start at 7.30pm and tickets cost just £5 with a programme and refreshments thrown in. Call 01482 668610 for more details, and Im told theyve recently been kitted out with some new facilities, and new mugs for the refreshments! So if you can make it to one of those performances, I hope you have a wonderful time, thank you to Dianne from the players who sent me that. Well thats it from me for today, have a good afternoon, I hope you enjoy the rest of the day and join me for tonights 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
