Hi there, its Peter here. Well, it certainly looks dank out there doesnt it? I, for one, certainly feel like its a long way away from Summer and a bit of sunshine!
Tonight on the programme, Look North will reveal that hare coursers are using loopholes in the law to continue their illegal hunting. Since the hunting ban was introduced, complaints about hare coursing have risen, but so far there have been no prosecutions. We'll have more on this story tonight. Also on the programme, we'll take a look as Lincolnshire Police force start using hidden speed cameras after a change in the law means that cameras no longer have to be visible to motorists. Officers claim that this new move will help cut the death toll on our roads, but well be talking with the motorists, who are angry at this new decision. We'll find out why the East Riding of Yorkshire has been named as the most popular area to move to in the whole of the country. The population in the region has risen rapidly in the past eight years. Why is it the hot spot to move to? Apparently, seven out of ten of us are feeling fat, flabby and fed up according to a new survey. Sound familiar? We'll be finding out what people are doing, if anything, at the start of this New Year to improve their fitness. And we'll have something for every little child or I suppose for every adult, who hasnt grown up, as we visit the UK's biggest Scalextric track in Lincolnshire. Thats all on BBC One at half past six as usual. Warning Heres a warning to us all! Jeremy Clarkson lost money from his account after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. Well, I suppose we can all read this story and think how stupid he was at doing that, but this just goes to show its so easy to put ourselves and our private details at risk. The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers in the newspaper in an article that rubbished the furore over the loss of twenty-five million peoples personal details on two computer disks. He wanted to prove the story was a fuss over nothing. But hes eating his words now and admitted he was wrong after he found out that a reader had used his details to create a £500 direct debit to the charity Diabetes UK. So there you are a warning that we should all be careful with our bank details! Gadgets Galore I mention so many times about my love of all things technological. Not that this means I know anything about how to use them, but I do like reading about all the latest developments in the world of gadgets and gizmos. So this latest exhibition sounds like heaven to me. More than twenty thousands new gadgets and technologies from more than two thousand and seven hundred companies are on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month. Here are a few highlights for you that caught my eye! When you record your favourite TV show, do you get fed up of watching the advertisements, or like me, do you fast forward through those bits? Well, the latest software has been designed to remove the adverts when you record straight to your PC or hard disk recorder. The software looks for the black screens that appear momentarily before an advert and then delete the following section until the programme restarts. I bet advertisers wont be too happy at this! Another one here to help the millions of people around the world that miss out on listening to the radio, because they are hearing impaired. Experts are developing a radio for the deaf that can translate speech radio into text in real time. At the moment, the voice to text conversion has to be done by typists, but could one day be automatic! And mobile phones could become even more crucial to our every day lives as they are being developed to start remotely controlling domestic appliances from wherever you are in the world. Lights could be switched on or off in your home, or air conditioning turned up and washing machines could be programmed all through your mobile phone. No more will you have to worry if youve left the oven on when you leave the house!! Just switch it off with your mobile! Thats all from me for now. I hope your day is going well. Perhaps an umbrella might be a good idea if youre stepping out today! Take care, 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
