Good afternoon! Well, I survived last night with my very croaky voice. I was reminded by our technical team of a story of the national presenter, Anna Ford, completely losing her voice during the one oclock lunchtime news. She was left completely unable to say anything, so the floor manager had to grab a very flustered Sophie Raworth to come and step in for her! Apparently, she had just got into the office and had no make-up whatsoever! Well, I wasnt as bad as that, but lets hope Im not so croaky tonight!
Thanks for all your messages and emails last night they were mainly about the big skyscraper planned for Hull and also the plans to promote our region to host parts of the 2012 Olympic games. Thanks for your messages. On tonight's programme, as the region's pig farmers highlight their worries at Westminster about the future of their industry, we'll be reporting from London to find out if today's action will make any difference. Also tonight, Look North will be asking if the experimental no car day in Boston really worked to help sort out the town's traffic problems. A documentary is due to be shown later today about this radical experiment and on Look North today, to coincide with the airing of this programme, well examine the progress towards building a bypass for the town. We'll be live at Blundell Park as Grimsby Town try to book their return to Wembley for the first time in ten years. Well be hearing from Mariners past and present and will have all the build up to the big match. Look North will have an exclusive insight into the work involved in running a steam railway. Look North will have a special report from the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway at Ludborough, where we can give you a special glimpse at a unique loco. And we'll be asking if you want an Edinburgh military-style Tattoo at Lincoln Castle? We'll put that question today to residents in the city and find out if they think there should be a new event in Lincoln's event calendar. Well want your opinion too! So join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. Email or text in during the programme with your thoughts, or leave a message on our hotline after the show. Ill give you all the contact details on the programme. Help Heres a little request for help. Id love to be able to help with this one if possible. Its an email from Malcolm Barrass I am a teacher in Hull, but in my spare time I run a website from my home in Hornsea covering the history of the RAF. I have recently received an email request through my website from a fellow teacher, who I believe is working in Russia, to locate information about his great uncle, Flt Lt John Blair DFC, who was a Jamaican navigator with No 102 Squadron at Pocklington during WW2. He would have been an unusual sight at that time as there were few Jamaican officers in the RAF. The officers great nephew, Mark Johnson, is coming over to the UK in March and I am going to meet up with him in Pocklington and in preparation for this, I wondered if an appeal could be made on Look North for anyone in the Pocklington area, who might remember John Blair, who could meet up with us. So theres Malcolms story. Do you remember this Jamaican navigator with No 102! Squadron at Pocklington? Im sure somebody must. If you do, then email me and Ill pass you on to Malcolm. You can email me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Well, I shall go and gargle some hot lemon! Take care and enjoy your day, 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
