Hi there and welcome to Tuesday’s Levy Letter. There's been drama at the 
British Swimming Championships today where Lincolnshire swimmer Mel Marshal has 
failed to turn up for her final in one of her individual events. Tonight on the 
programme, we'll find out what implications this will have on her competing in 
the Beijing Olympics.

Also, it’s been a day of relief for one family in Cottingham. As Deborah 
Phillips and her family celebrate after winning the right to stay in East 
Yorkshire, Look North will find out what their case will mean for others facing 
deportation in our region. 

Also if you're over sixty and had hoped to travel with the national 
concessionary bus pass, then your experience may not have run smoothly this 
morning as your pass may not have arrived. Tonight Look North will assess the 
post code lottery that exists across our area and will find out what the hold 
up is for these passes to be distributed. 

We'll have a special report as the RAF heritage in Lincolnshire is put at the 
centre of the world's attention. For the RAF's 90th birthday, we'll take a look 
at the modern-day role of the RAF and get a glimpse of the Red Arrows 
performing their celebratory flypast across London. That’s all on BBC One at 
half past six. I hope you can join me.

Spam

No, not the processed meat! But the bane of everyone’s life – spam emails! It’s 
in the news today as spam is continuing to blight our inbox exactly fifteen 
years after the term was first coined and almost thirty years since the first 
ever spam message was sent. 90% of all email is spam apparently and is 
responsible for slowing down our computers, transferring viruses and generally 
being quite irritating! 

Clever Sharks

Apparently, Paul’s job might be under threat by very clever sharks that can 
predict the weather. The University of Aberdeen are looking into this and they 
think that sharks have an in-built radar for predicting bad weather. 
Researchers have looked back at the lull before the storm before recent 
hurricanes and in these cases the sharks moved out of shallow water and into 
the safety of the deeper seas, possibly to avoid being washed up on the beach. 
The theory behind this is that the sharks are very sensitive to changes in 
pressure in the water. When the weather turns for the worse, the air pressure 
drops as does the water pressure. I hope Paul’s impressed with my weather 
knowledge. The sharks can sense this change in the water pressure and scarper 
to safer waters. So there you go. Sharks can predict the weather! 

Well, that's it from me for now. I hope you have a lovely day. 

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

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