Hi there, its Friday at last! The end of a week of Levy Letters. Tonight on the programme, we'll take a look at the NHS post code lottery as one Hull woman claims she has been denied a vital cancer drug because her local primary care trust can't afford it, despite it being available elsewhere in the country. Well listen to her story tonight.
Plus we'll get the latest on the Simon Murden inquest as the jury goes out to consider its verdict on the fatal shooting on the A63 in March 2006. Well get the latest on this. We'll also be asking how much your council boss is worth as a new report is published that reveals the cost of Chief Executives. We'll be live in Grimsby ahead of this weekend's big Wembley clash with the MK Dons and we'll meet the school children, who are getting behind their favourite team. >From footie to ploughing! We'll be with the Lincolnshire farmer as he prepares >to take on the world's best in the Ploughing Championships! Thats all on BBC >One at half past six for Look North. Bedtime Reading Encouraging some kids to read can be a bit tricky, but theres concern at the type of reading that some children are doing. Many parents are worried that their children arent doing proper reading as they are favouring gossip magazines and song lyrics. This is hardly surprising, but any reading material that is set for homework by teachers like Shakespeare, has come out as childrens least favourite! Well, what a surprise! This survey looked at the reading habits of children aged between eleven and fourteen. Favourites in the top ten for these kids were the Harry Potter series, Anne Franks Diary and the BBC websites. In the least favourite top ten, homework was at first place, followed by Shakespeare and then books with more than one hundred pages! Of course, theres a gender divide with these results. 31% of boys said they loved reading because it helped them become better at hobbies like sport, films or music. Where as 39% of girls said they loved reading because they t! hought it was an escape where they could experience some quiet time on their own. So there you go. Hardly surprising that Harry Potter is still a popular choice for school children to read and Shakespeare is one of their least favourites! Red Arrows I saw a lovely email come into our inbox the other day, so I thought Id share it with you. This comes from Graham Mills, Twice recently, Ive travelled on business to Hull from my home at Kelham, near Newark. Twice on my return home its been my privilege to watch the Red Arrows practising over RAF Scampton. Today there were nine of them flying in formations, so tight, they might have had each other on a lead - they are simply awesome. I just cannot begin to imagine the level and number of skills required to do what they do. The team makes me very proud knowing that they are the best in the world. There you go. Yesterday we showed you the team behind this years Red Arrows team on the programme. Good luck to them! Well, thats it from me for today. You may or may not know that Ive been on Soapbox this morning on BBC Radio Humberside. Thank you very much for all the phone calls we received! And again thanks for all the emails and messages that youve sent in to Look North too this week. Its been a very lively week, so thank you very much indeed. Just finally, a few words of congratulations to our colleagues working over in Leeds on the Yorkshire version of Look North. Ten thousand programmes on and forty years later and theyre celebrating today! So congratulations to them! Take care and have a lovely weekend, 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
