Good afternoon, its Peter here. Tonight on the programme, we'll be investigating the latest row that has brought Bridlington's Eye to a standstill.
In our Home Truths series, which started last night, we'll be asking if the roof has fallen in on the property market in our region. Well be finding out what help is out there to get people on the first rung of the property ladder. Plus we'll see how Grimsby Town are preparing for their FA Cup match this weekend against Huddersfield. And find out why the world's biggest selling album owes much of its success to a Cleethorpes man. Thats all tonight at half past six. As you know I like to help where I can and this email caught my eye. Some Year Nine students at Kesteven and Sleaford High School are trying to raise funds for an orphanage in Burma. I think the medias often criticised for showing teenagers in a bad light, so heres a good news story about some students working very hard for a charity event. This event is next Wednesday on the 5th December from 3pm 5.30pm. The students are running a Charity Tea With Santa! and all the money raised by the girls in form 9A will be going to a charity called Worldshare supporting an orphanage in Burma. As always the younger generations are completely at ease with modern technology! I wish I was! And they have set up a website teawithsanta.co.uk. Tickets can be purchased on there and theres a competition wordsearch as well with prizes given on the day. So well done to the girls of Year Nine at Kesteven and Sleaford High School. I hope it goes well on Wednesday! And a plug for some hard working kitchen assistants too at North Ferriby CE Primary School. Theyre doing a sponsored walk this weekend around the school kitchens to raise money for a new kitchen for their school. Well, theyve picked a cold weekend to do this. Kim Kay, Kirstine Johnson and Debs Taylor will set off at 9am on Saturday from North Ferriby, visit the kitchens of Swanland Primary School, South Hunsley School, Elloughton Primary School, Brough Primary School, Welton Primary School and then will head back to North Ferriby. Im not sure how long it will take them, but its a walk of ten miles! Good luck to them. All the sponsorship money will go towards a new kitchen at North Ferriby Primary School. The school has been promised a grant of £35,000 if they can match it themselves. Good luck to Kim, Kirstine and Debs for their walk at the weekend. Rambling Oh dear, I can just imagine your emails about this one! Stiles and kissing gates along country paths are the latest to fall victim to political correctness. Can you imagine that? Local authorities believe that they breach the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. This law requires that reasonable adjustments are made to allow disabled access. Plans could be to either ban stiles or make kissing gates far bigger to allow wheel chairs to get through. So what do you reckon to that one? Get emailing in with your comments. Id love to hear them! Its the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots Im sure you get fed up, like I do, by impolite waiters or bad service in restaurants. The answer is here though. The latest gadget for diners in Tokyo is the concierge robot. Aro the robot is programmed to be polite to customers, is always smartly turned out in a little pink waistcoat and bow-tie and can even suggest menu options. But the robot invasion may not stop at just our restaurants and cafés. Robots have been to designed to pretend to be a patient in a dentist surgery. Dental students can practise on its super sensitive canines and molars and if they miss, itll shriek in synthesised pain! Theres another little robot called the Lady Bird that in two years time will begin cleaning toilets of service stations across Japan. What I found quite interesting though is that Japan has a very low birth rate and by 2030 the workforce will have shrunk by nearly eleven million people. Isnt that incredible? These figures were released yesterday by the Government. Its said t! hat to meet the shortfall, Japan would need 500,000 foreign workers to come into their country every year until then. So, perhaps this has led to all this research into robots, who could take on every day roles in the work place. So there you go. Robots are taking over! Well thats it from me for this week. Just finally, Im sure youll be seeing in the papers and on the news that Tony Holland, the wonderful co-creater of EastEnders has died in hospital. Hes certainly got an incredible legacy not only did he work on EastEnders, but he was responsible for Z Cars, Angels and District Nurse. Our best wishes of course to Tonys family. Take care, and enjoy your 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
