Hi there, its Tim Iredale here. I hope you had a good weekend. I had a very soggy Christmas shopping trip yesterday after being caught out by the torrential rain. Let me know if you had any similar experiences in the bad weather and I can blame Paul on your behalf! Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ill be with you tonight for Look North at half past six. Tonight, we'll take a special look at the crop that could soon be grown across our region. Once harvested, it will be turned into fuel for our cars. We'll be reporting from Spain where the bio fuel industry is already well established. We'll find out what it could mean for motorists in our area. Also tonight, well be asking how safe from flooding is your home if you live in Boston? We'll be examining a TV documentary tonight as it names Boston as the place most at risk of flooding in the whole of the UK. Plus we'll have the latest on the future of the Bridlington Eye and speaking to the man, who brought the Eye to the town as he fights to get the wheel turning once more. And they should be an inspiration to others! We'll meet the family from Skegness that between them have lost forty stone! And we'll be honouring the winners and achievers in our Sports Awards tonight. Damian Johnson will be live in Scunthorpe for the ceremony with the full roundup of this weekend's sports news. Plus if youre interested in the ceremony and want to find out who has been nominated for an award, then theres lots more information on our website at bbc.co.uk/humber. The award ceremony will be broadcast live on there in its entirety, so take a look. Eat Your Greens Do your children pick at their dinner and moan about eating greens? Well, research suggests that whilst your baby is in the womb or when new mums are breast feeding, eating broccoli and brussel sprouts can pass on a love for the veg to an unborn child. Flavours of such healthy vegetables can transmit to the baby through amniotic fluid or through the mothers milk. So pregnant mums should munch on some cabbage or carrots to help develop their childs taste buds. Childrens aversion to such foods could lie far back in our evolution. The bitter taste that cabbage and sprouts have can be linked to the taste of poisons attributed to plants that are protecting themselves from being eaten. Over time, humans have developed their dislike of such a taste as they link it with the taste of nasty toxins. But seeing as cabbage and sprouts are exceedingly good for us, then pregnant mums should be encouraged to help their children develop a taste for them early on!! Plugs A text in from over the weekend has asked for a plug in the Levy Letter, so of course, Ill carry on the tradition! On Sunday 9th December, the Myers Hutchinson Stage School will be holding their Christmas Show at Preston Road Freedom Centre. Therell be an afternoon and an evening performance. So break a leg to the Myers Hutchinson Stage School for their Christmas Show. And talking of breaking a leg! I keep hearing the BBCs panto cast warming up their vocal chords. Rehearsals are nearing an end for them with the first performance next week in Cleethorpes on the 12th December and then the Hull shows start on Saturday 15th December. Lots of jittery nerves and frantic learning of lines are going on. If youre going to any of their shows, then I hope you enjoy them. Oh yes you will ! And a quick plug for the Celebrity Carol Concert for Hulls Lord Mayors charities. This is this Thursday at half past seven at the Street Life museum. Its a great evening. Peter will be doing a reading as always. So if you fancy getting into the Christmas spirit, then tune up your voice for some carol singing on Thursday night. Ashley Hill has been in touch with us. The Chicago Rock café in Lincoln are running a charity appeal. Over the Christmas period, theyre collecting new toys and games and books to give to the children at Lincoln County Hospital on Christmas Day. If you fancy helping out with that appeal and would like to donate a gift, then get in touch with Ashley at the Chicago Rock café. Well, that's it from me for now. Im so glad the week has started off with such glorious weather. I dont mind the cold, so long as its nice and dry and so far it looks like it is. Wasnt it awful at the weekend? Were you out Christmas shopping at the weekend? Did you get absolutely soaked? Theres something to be said for indoor shopping centres isnt there with weather like that this weekend! Paul will be with us tonight for the forecast as usual. Hopefully, hell have some good news for us! Take care and join me tonight if you can, Tim 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
