Hello! Its Tim Iredale here with your letter today. Peter has started his Christmas holiday early, so Ill be with you for the programme this evening.
Tonight, we'll have the story of the mother and daughter reunited to spend their first Christmas together after forty years of separation. The daughter, Hilary, was given up for adoption when she was just nine days old and we'll be talking to them tonight to find out how she finally managed to meet her birth mother. Also tonight, find out about the 'safe haven' that's being offered to Christmas revellers in Scunthorpe city centre - a trailer converted to make a field hospital, police station and meeting point. As we continue our look at the impact of the floods six months on, we'll be visiting the small village of Langworth to see how they're coping. And we'll hear from the stars at Lincoln's Theatre Royal about the lasting appeal of panto. Thats all tonight on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me. The BBCs panto is over for another year. The Ugly Sisters will be hanging up their wigs and Prince Charming will be packing up his breeches. Some lovely messages have been coming in to us through our answer phone, through to BBC Radio Humberside and also in our Open Centre as well. Thanks to everyone, who supported the panto this year. Unbelievably, just last night a huge £760 was made just through the sale of the raffle tickets and merchandise. We havent got the amount raised from the ticket sales just yet, but through the raffle and merchandise alone, a grand total of over £3,000 has been raised. Thats incredible. And I think the majority of that praise should go to our receptionist, Ros Carr, who barricades all our audience at the door of the theatre until they buy a raffle ticket! So thanks to Ros and all the helpers front of house. Theyre always the first ones at the theatre, and work so hard front of house, so thanks go to them. And what you may not know are that t! here are lots of people, who help out back stage too, who dont work for the BBC, but like to offer their help for the panto and of course there are all the dancers too, who give up their time to perform for us so thanks go to all of them. So well be waiting eagerly to find out just how much was raised in total by the staff of BBC Look North and Radio Humberside in their pantomime production of Cinderella. Well done to them I expect theyll be looking forward to a well-earned rest now over Christmas. Of course, Im sure Peter will let you know the grand total of money raised for those twenty-one charities in our region in the New Year. If you want to know whos benefiting from this fundraising, then theres a full list of the charities involved on our website bbc.co.uk/humber/entertainment. Theres a link on there for details about the BBCs pantomime. Baby Names You always see articles like this at this time of year, when groups start looking back at the year for certain trends. Well, the top names given to babies in 2007 have just been announced and they are Jack and Grace! Jack has been at the top spot for baby boys names for the thirteenth year running. The top five boys names for England and Wales havent really changed much since last year. So Jack is at the top, Thomas has stayed at number two and Oliver has risen to number three. Since last year, Grace has moved up one spot to become the favourite name chosen for baby girls and Ruby is up to number two. Olivia used to be number one last year, but has dropped two positions to number three. And this list shows more excuses to blame celebrities these days! The name, Jayden, climbed thirty six places this year to become the highest new entry in the boys top fifty list at number thirty two. Jayden is Britneys Spears second son. The name, Ava, leapt twenty-three places to numb! er forty one. Can you remember that pop band from the reality show Popstars, called HearSay. Well, one of the singers from there, Myleene Klass, who presented the BBCs One Show for a while, has just given birth and that was the name she gave her daughter. The name Alfie made it in the top ten after the pop singer, Lily Allen wrote a song about her baby brother, Alfie. So if youre about to give birth to a Christmas baby, then do any of those names take your fancy? Plugs A quick plug for the Lydian Choir Concert tonight. It starts at 7.30pm at St Lawrence's Church on Church Lane in Scunthorpe. Good luck for their Christmas concert. And heres a lovely email from Linda Middleton with some good news! She writes, Children and their families from the Parkstone Kids Club Riverside Community Centre in Hull, who have been affected by the summer floods, have been allocated some funding from "The Children's Fund" to put a bit of a sparkle back into their lives. As the co-ordinator of the club, I arranged to take them on a trip to Blackpool to see the lights. This was on Saturday 3rd November and on Saturday 22nd December at the Riverside Community Centre from 10am to 4pm we are having a great Christmas party with a magician in the morning and a pantomime in the afternoon and to finish a visit from Santa. So this hopefully will get them into the Christmas Spirit and help them to put aside any traumas that they have gone through. So this Saturday, therell be a Christmas party for the Parkstone Kids Club. Best wishes to them and I hope they enjoy it! Thats all from me for today. Please keep in touch with me. Id love to hear whats happening in your life. Any moans to add to mine that its so busy in the shops at the moment and you can never find a parking space at this time of year! Bah Humbug! Any Christmas worries that youd like to share with us, or any event that youre excited about, then please let me know about it. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the best, 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
