Good morning! It’s Peter here. Like me it looks like you all noticed the 
wonderful full moon at the weekend. Wasn’t it spectacular? Lots of photographs 
have come in, so thank you very much for those. They’re wonderful. As always, 
keep your photographs coming in. I still really enjoy seeing your views on the 
programme every night. So keep them coming in! As always, this week, if you 
want to get in touch with me, then it’s [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can get me direct 
on that email address. I look forward to hearing from you. 

Tonight on the programme, we'll be with the Floods Minister, Phil Woolas, as he 
visits Hedon today to see how flood victims there are coping four months on. 
You’ll be able to hear his response as we put your concerns to the minister and 
we'll be raising the question of what the government plans to do to help 
prevent such flood damage in the future. 

Also tonight, as fuel prices continue to rise across the region, we need your 
help tonight to complete our map of the most expensive and cheapest fuel in 
Lincolnshire and the East Riding. We’ll be highlighting also the plight of 
motorists and businesses in our region, who are struggling with such high 
motoring costs. 

Damian Johnson will be following up after Hull City's defeat over Scunthorpe 
with an interview with Hull City's manager, Phil Brown. And he will have the 
rugby league fixtures for next season, plus the derby dates. And it's relief 
all round at Sincil Bank as Peter Jackson celebrates his first win in charge. 
That’s all tonight on BBC One at half past six. Plus Paul is back from his 
stint as chief nappy changer! Paul will have the forecast for us as normal, 
although I think I could stand in for him tonight by saying simply, it’s very 
cold!! 

I’m sure lots of you were busy Christmas shopping at the weekend. Well, here’s 
a little festive plug. The Rotary Club in Scunthorpe is to hold its third 
annual Festival of Christmas Trees hosted by Old Brumby United Church. All the 
money raised will go to Scunthorpe’s Lindsey Lodge Hospice. There will be 
fifty-seven Christmas Trees in the church all individually decorated by local 
community groups. There’s even one eight foot tall upside down Christmas Tree – 
I can’t think why!! George Jefferson must have the answer to that one. He 
emailed in for a plug. He says that the Festival is over two consecutive 
weekends from the 1st/2nd and 8th/9th December at the Old Brumby United Church 
in Scunthorpe. So good luck to them, especially in hanging that eight foot tall 
Christmas tree upside down! 

And just briefly, I know Children In Need is over for this year, but still the 
money is coming into the charity and I think that deserves a thank you. Wetwang 
Primary School have been busy! This comes from Karen Atkin, “Hi Peter, We know 
we are late in telling you about our Children In Need fundraising. We raised 
£118.55 with a non uniform day, bun sales and fun activities - not bad for a 
school with forty pupils. Do you think Paul or yourself could say a thank you 
to all the people who supported the school in this fundraising.” So thanks go 
to Karen and all the people, who help with the Pudsey events. Thank you to you! 

Read My Mind

Not that I know anything about computer games, but it seems to me that so much 
technology and research goes into this industry. Reading people’s minds sounds 
like something Nasa should be researching, but scientists at an American 
laboratory have been brainstorming this technology for more than five years and 
perhaps have had a breakthrough. It’s called ‘Epoc’ and it’s a helmet that is 
capable, allegedly, of being able to read your mind. It’s to be launched early 
next year in Britain and the US. I thought that this must surely have 
incredible affects for science and for how people use computers, but at the 
moment gamers are more excited at the possibility of being able to ‘think’ 
their onscreen computer character into action. But never mind what it means for 
computer games, just imagine what that would mean for our everyday lives! We 
could ‘think’ our light switches on or off, we could ‘think’ our TVs to change 
channel or we could ‘think’ the kettle to start boiling water fo!
 r us. That sounds incredible doesn’t it? And it’s all down to the helmet being 
able to measure electrical impulses, which are triggered in our brain when we 
think of things. It’s works on the same basis as the EEG scan that people have 
sometimes in hospital. Sounds unbelievable doesn’t it? Well, it’s due out for 
release with new computer games in the US and UK early next year. So watch out 
for that! 

On that note, that’s it from me! Perhaps I should have a practise on some 
computer games as it seems that’s where the interesting gadgets are! Perhaps 
not! 

Take care and join me tonight for Look North if you can.

Peter 


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