Hello and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope youve had a good morning, and I hope you can join me for Look North as always at half past six on BBC One. Coming up on todays programme, it's tough enough for a family to cope with one seriously ill child but in the Dring family from Skegness, Mum and two of the three children have a rare generic condition that cause brain tumours. We'll have their story on Look North tonight.
We'll have the latest on our story of the arrest of the Hull Councillor Steve Bayes on charges of gross indecency. We'll also have a special report on the eve of child killer Beverley Allit's appeal against her sentence at the High Court in London. And therell be a taste of nostalgia on the programme tonight with the business that's making thousands producing old fashioned fruit cordials. Well have the detailed weather forecast as usual, so dont miss that and all the rest of the days news and stories on Look North tonight at half past six on BBC One. Well its getting to that critical point where you start panicking if you havent got everything done for Christmas, I think the shops are looking busier as youd expect, so I hope all is going well for you and youre getting everything done. It can actually be quite a stressful time of year rather than a happy one, so good luck, and dont forget to enjoy the season of good cheer! An Elephant Never Forgets Well yesterday on the letter I told you about the study showing chimpanzees have amazing memory powers, even better than those of a human. Not to be beaten, elephants are in the news today with new research demonstrating that they can memorise the simultaneous locations of up to 30 family members. Theyre constantly aware of which family members are ahead of them searching for food, which are lagging behind, and which are travelling in separate groups. How do they decide to undertake this research, and who pays for it? The mind boggles. If youre wondering how the researchers learned all this information, it was by observing the elephants sniffing urine. Although elephants have poor eyesight, they have an excellent sense of smell, and can identify each other from traces of urine on the ground. Of course. I think Id rather have good eyesight than the ability to trace urine scents personally, but the elephants still take advantage of this sense with their amazing memory. Turner Prize >From urine smelling elephants to wandering bears or a man in a bear suit to >be exact. Im not extremely knowledgeable about the art world, I must confess, >but the Turner Prize is always a big deal, partly due to the bizarre nature of >some of the winning entries. The art prize was established in 1984, and is >awarded each year to a British artist under 50. This years winner of the >prestigious award is a video of a man spending 10 nights wandering alone >around an art gallery in a bear suit. I dont pretend to understand it, but >apparently it evokes a heightened sense of reality that communicates an >unpalatable political truth". Thats what the judges said anyway. I suppose the good thing about art like this is that you can interpret it in different ways and take what you like from it, although some might find it rather bizarre and difficult to understand. I wonder if you can guess which camp Im in! So if youre feeling artistic you might want to make a trip to the local costume shop instead of buying brushes and paint, and you might find yourself the next art sensation! Just before I go, if you saw the programme yesterday you will have seen the story we had about the fisherman in Bridlington using nets on the shore to catch fish instead of going out with trawlers, and his dog goes out with him every morning. Well one of the Levy Letter readers, Bernice, sent me this reply with a little something we missed in our report. Hi Peter, It was interesting to see Andy the fisherman. The dog is called Sandy and is very amusing to watch as while Andy gets the fish from the nets, and throws them on the beach, Sandy retrieves them and puts them on a pile on the beach OR into a wheelbarrow. Sandy obviously loves his job, and Andy told me the dog started to do this on its own, with no training what-so-ever. Clever isnt it? Thank you Bernice for that, I dont think we mentioned the dog on the programme, but apparently hes he enjoys his work, and Im sure theres a nice fish dinner in it for him too. Well thats it from me for today. I hope you can watch the programme tonight at half past six, and dont forget if you have any interesting stories for the programme, or anything for the letter, drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take care, enjoy the rest of your day. 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
