Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter. Its the start of the week, and I hope you had a very good weekend. If you did anything interesting I hope it went very well indeed.
Coming up on the programme today, the jury at the inquest into the shooting of Beverley man Simon Murden visits the scene of his fatal shooting by Humberside Police. We'll have the latest from the ongoing hearing. As more than two thousand people wait for flood hit homes to be repaired in Hull, we'll meet some of the families affected, and we'll have some advice from the National Flood Forum live on the programme. Tonight on BBC Four, former Conservative minister Michael Portillo leads a host of major political figures through a look back at the life of Lincolnshire's most famous daughter, Lady Thatcher. And on the sport tonight, Lincoln City's manager Peter Jackson talks to Damian Johnson about the start of his cancer treatment and his hopes for the football club in his absence. And well also be giving you a chance to see all of Hull City's great goals against West Brom, and a nail biting second half for Rovers at Craven Park. Of course well have the weather forecast for the start of the week. I hope you can join me for all that on Look North at half past six on BBC One. One of the wonderful things about the internet is that wherever you live in the world you can keep up with events elsewhere in other countries. And Im told that in addition to reading the Levy Letter and watching Look North online, the internet can also be used to keep in touch with friends and family. I received an email from Helen, Keiran, Jennifer & Corrin Lucey who all have just moved to Germany from Grimsby and want to wish a happy birthday to Helens dad, John Warburton. Its his birthday today. Thank you for continuing to watch the programme in Germany, and happy birthday John. If youre moving, or going away on holiday, or maybe if you just miss Look North and want to keep up with the latest news and stories, you can go to our website www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull and watch the programme online and some of our top stories individually as well. As I keep hearing, its very popular. Oscars Its the biggest event in the film calendar, and the Oscars ceremony was last night. Apart from all the glamour and dresses, its easy to forget some people were actually up for film making prizes! Unusually, all the top acting awards went to European actors, with British stars doing very well. Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor prize, with Tilda Swinton winning best supporting actress. If you stayed up to watch the ceremony, then I suppose you wont read this until late in the day, it did of course finish early this morning for those of us in Britain. Bullies This is a very sad statistic from the news today, according to a survey of 3,000 secondary school pupils, 71% admitted to having bullied classmates. Children were asked if they had ever bullied, and what had led them to do it. Some of the most common answers included fear that it would happen to them, because their friends did it, or anger at another individual. The survey shows that bullying isnt just perpetrated by a small minority, but spread across a large number of pupils. Its very sad, as I said, but schools believe they are dealing with the problem as well as they can, with schemes such as peer mentoring where older, well respected pupils help teachers stop bullying and act as role models. Lets hope some of those schemes have a positive effect, and of course if you are being bullied or know anybody who is, there are plenty of organisations to help, including within schools, so theres no need to put up with it alone. Fruit Flavoured Heres something that might not surprise you a great deal, many products which have images of fruit on the packaging and claim to be fruit flavoured actually have little or no real fruit in them at all. Included in a list of offenders are certain fruit jellies and milkshakes, and fruit teas. Incredibly, one strawberry fruit bar had just 0.5% strawberry, and was actually made almost entirely of apples! That just seems bizarre. Although the practice of labelling food as fruit flavoured even when they contain little actual fruit is described by the Food Standards Agency as misleading and deceptive, its also legal and widespread. So next time you feel like getting one of your five-a-day from a shop bought product, make sure it actually contains fruit and isnt just fruit flavoured. You couldnt make it up, could you? Well thats it from me for today, I hope youve enjoyed the letter today and dont forget if youve got anything to say in the letter or any stories or comments you want me to know about, get in touch and drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If youve got any interesting and unusual pictures to show on Look North then send that along to me as well and Ill have a look at them. I hope you can join me tonight on Look North at half past six on BBC One as always. Enjoy the rest of your day, and Ill be back with tomorrows Levy Letter at about the same time tomorrow. 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
