Hi there, its Peter here. Tonight on the programme, we'll be on an estate in Hull where a murder investigation is underway today after a teenage boy was found stabbed. The seventeen year old boy died in hospital this morning. We'll get the latest on this.
Also tonight, we'll be asking what the answer is when it comes to tackling the problem of youth crime. As filming starts today in Lincolnshire for a new cinema campaign aiming to stop young people getting into trouble, we'll be stepping onto the set to find out more. We dealt with this issue last night and so many people messaged in to say that theyd had a similar experience. Our hotline too was full of many angry people just wanting to let off some steam, because they felt so angry about it! Thats what its there for! Thanks for all the messages. To give you some idea about what people were saying about last nights story about the rising amount of youth crime on our streets, heres a very succinct email from Andrew Brown. He writes, Hi Peter, Its about time we stopped being sympathetic to the problematic youth of today. The government should look at bringing back disciplinary powers to both the police and schools. The reintroducing of punishments such as the cane in schools would be a start as parents are obviously failing in their roles to provide discipline and respect. Multiple offenders should be sent to prisons and we should abolish the failing system of ASBOs. Thanks Andrew for sharing those strong views. And this is from a new Levy Letter reader, who hasnt actually left their name, but thank you and welcome to you! Heres their first email to us Hi Peter, First let me say thank you for your news letter. I began receiving them just a few days ago, and am enjoying reading them as well as watching Look North news daily. I feel I have to respond to the section on what provisions are available to the youth in the city and the vandalism that goes on in many parts of the city. 'Provision' when I was a teenager - we had very little or no provision provided for us. We didn't have computers, game boys, mobile phones, skate boards, or the like. We did have skipping ropes, tops and whips, an old bicycle wheel to use, and a lot of imagination that was not put to verbal or violent behaviour. I can assure you I was not an angel, but I was answerable to my parents on the things I did or where I was when in and around the city. Where are the parents of these people, who go around terrori! sing residents, fire men, ambulance workers, teachers and the like? I firmly believe they are not doing a thing to stop or help stop the problems we are having. Respect and good behaviour begins in the home. If they are not taught it there, then they will have no respect for any one or anything. Thankfully this is a problem with the minority rather than the majority and I firmly believe with more parental control the minority youth of today would be much better. Well, they havent left their name with that message, but welcome to you and thanks for your comments. Judging by the huge response from you on the emails and answer phones, then youth crime is something that has touched a great many families in our area and surprisingly not just in the larger urban areas like Hull, but in some rural communities as well. So Im sure that well come back to this story again in the future. Tonight, well be looking at this latest campaign in Lincolnshire, but in the meantime keep your emails coming in. Wed like to hear from you about your experiences of crime by young people. Weve heard from people living in urban areas like Hull, but what about the smaller villages in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire do these problems of gangs affect these villages too? Get in touch about this. Id love to hear from you. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual to get in touch with me. Also tonight on Look North at half past six, is it the end of the line for working men's clubs since the smoking ban was introduced? Many have closed and the latest casualty is Hull's Springhead pub. We'll find out what the future is for these clubs. And we'll have some fantastic pictures filmed in Egypt in the 1930s and 40s to bring to you on the programme. They were taken by a pioneering amateur filmmaker from East Yorkshire and well have his story tonight. I hope you can join me. Brass Band A quick plug here Ruth from RAF Cranwell has been in touch. She told me that members of the Brass section of the band of the RAF regiment will perform a recital at St Denys Church in Sleaford on Thursday 21st February. Itll start at half past seven and its free, although there will be a donation towards the church funds. So next week put a little note in your diary to support the brass band of the RAF in Sleaford! Jumble Sales Weve followed this story for many years on Look North and on BBC Radio Humberside looking at the work of one incredibly hard-working fundraiser. Lily Sansam raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity by holding jumble sales at her home in East Hull. I believe most of the money went towards helping people suffering from deafness. Her hard work and dedication was rewarded when she was invited to go to London to meet the Queen and to receive an MBE in the New Year Honours in 2006. Lilys daughter, Heather, phoned the Look North hotline this morning and left a message for me. Heather wanted to share with us that her mum died last week. Im sure Lily is known by many people in East Hull for her fundraising work, which is why I wanted to pass on this sad news. Our thoughts go to Heather and Lilys family and friends. Many thanks for reading the Levy Letter today and thanks for all the contact with us recently. Its really appreciated by all of us. We like to know what you think of the programme! Lots of photographs have been sent to us as well, so thanks for those. Look out for them in the normal slot before the weather forecast! The people, who work in the newsroom, who travel into Hull from the south bank, have all been telling me about the weird fog over the Humber this morning. Apparently, as you drove over the Bridge, you came out of thick fog to clear bright sunshine and the fog was lying really low over the water and was beneath all the cars. Presumably it looked like the view from an aircraft when its travelling over the clouds! Im sure no one has got a photo of that, but send in any views that you capture when youre out and about in the region. 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
