Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter for Tuesday. I hope your week got off to a good start. We had a very popular story on Look North yesterday featuring an Irish Setter with an incredible sixteen puppies. If you missed that, you can go to our website and see the report at www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. Its well worth it if youre a dog lover, I think that was the most popular item in the Look North office yesterday!
We also had lots of messages coming in from viewers about how dangerous it is to be a taxi driver, and also lots of complaints about the state of our roads after our story on pot holes. Thank you for all of those, and once again it looks like weve started a big debate. Im sure well hear more on both of those in the future. Coming up on tonights programme, a city remembers its dead. We'll have a special report on the hundreds of people turning out today to pay tribute to 58 fishermen who were lost forty years ago in the triple trawler tragedy. Siemens unveil a forty million pound plan for a new factory in North Hykeham, but could also maintain ties in Lincoln as well. We'll speak to motorists driven to distraction by the region's potholes. And we'll reveal the winner of our Bafta 60 seconds film competition tonight. Youve seen all the contenders on the programme of course, all very different films. Im looking forward to seeing which was the most popular. Thats all at the usual time of half past six on Look North, BBC One tonight. I hope you can join me for that, and of course well have the detailed weather forecast for our region as always. Norman Well I had a little mention of Sir Norman Wisdom in the letter yesterday prompted by an email I received. Well I forgot to mention that it was Sir Normans birthday yesterday, hes 93. So a day late, I say happy birthday to one of our comedy legends and wish him all the best. House Prices Well the Levy Letter wouldnt be the same without stories on house prices, and there is one in the news today, but I have to say its not much of a story in the conventional sense. The headline today is that house prices were unchanged in January. I suppose that given the rises and falls that seem to be occurring in house prices all the time its worth mentioning when things stay the same. The freeze in January is thought to indicate that house price rises are continuing to slow after a decade of rises. Economists are even predicting that house prices could fall over 2008. So prices staying the same mean its all change in the house market it seems, not good news if youve recently purchased a property, but maybe encouraging if youre one of the many people trying to get on the ladder. Ill be keeping an eye on house prices as always in the letter. Pancakes Today is pancake day, or Shrove Tuesday. Its traditionally the day that we all prepare for a religious fast up to Easter, and that means getting rid of all your eggs and fats, and what better way than having a pancake making session? I dont know if the majority of people actually fast for 40 days any more, but the tradition of pancake making still survives of course, but not for children at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire this year. I saw this in the news and in a rather sad decision the organisers of the annual pancake race have cancelled the event due to health and safety regulations. Children and choristers usually take part in the traditional event every year as a bit of fun, but apparently the amount of paperwork that has to be done in risk assessments, and the money demanded by the local council has led to the plug being pulled. This is the sort of thing that never would have happened years ago, but you hear a lot of these stories these days. Of course Im sure lots of people would say that years ago before there were detailed risk assessments, lots of people used to get hurt and burned. But still it seems a shame, doesnt it? If youre celebrating today with a big pancake blow out, I hope you have a wonderful time, but of course make sure you do it safely. Just before I go, youre obviously signed up to the Levy Letter, but if you think you know somebody whod like it and theyre not subscribed, its very easy to join in. Tell your friends to go to the BBC Look North website at www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull and click on Levy Letter. They can put in their email address and start getting their free daily Levy Letter from the very next week day. And if youve got anything to let me know about, a story for the programme or a picture you think we could show before the weather then drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message will go straight to me and be very much appreciated as always. Thats all from me for today, I hope you have a very good afternoon and remember to join me tonight for Look North at half past six on BBC One. 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
