Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter. A significant number of Hull City fans will be nursing play off hangovers this morning, congratulations to the Tigers and now its on to Wembley. Phil Brown's men made history, thrashing Watford to reach the play off final. We'll have a match report and the reaction from players and fans from a special night at the KC stadium. And of course well have all the coverage of the teams continuing quest for promotion on Look North, on BBC Radio Humberside, and on the BBC Humberside website, so stay tuned.
Tonight we'll also speak to the Bridlington lobster fishermen warning that they could be forced to sell their boats due to the rising cost of red diesel. We'll put their concerns to the Fisheries Minister. Find out why Lincolnshire motorists are angry at the DVLA today over proposed changes to driving tests in the county. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance are expanding their operation with a second helicopter. Well have more on how that could save lives. And we have a special preview of plans to re-enact the famous dambusters raid. We'll have the details from the Battle of Britain memorial team. Thats all coming up at the usual time of half past six on BBC One, I hope youll be able to join me for Look North tonight. Thank you again for all your comments we receive about the programme. We had a big response yesterday about the children being forced to pay for their school bus, or walk three miles. A lot of very passionate messages about that, on both sides of the argument. As always, keep your comments coming in. You can get in touch to let us know what you think at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or on our hotline or text numbers. Were also looking for any stories you might have that you think we should know about, and if you have any interesting pictures for us to show on the programme send them in to us via email or put a hard copy in the post. I look forward to seeing them. Underage I had a story in the letter recently about a Japanese company developing a scanning device to detect whether a customer was old enough to buy cigarettes. Foolishly, I didnt actually believe that it would be coming over here, and I certainly didnt expect that a supermarket chain would be installing similar devices already. That shows you can never predict what technologys going to take off. A UK retailer has installed face recognition cameras in one of its stores to stop children buying cigarettes and alcohol. Unlike the Japanese device, which counted your wrinkles and skin sags, the British model makes measurements between key points on an individuals face. I dont know how that works, but apparently the machine will then alert the cashier that the potential customer is underage. When a customer has been scanned by the machine, their details will be added to a database which will also record whether theyve verified their age or not. The machine has the capacity to store two million faces. Its extraordinary technology. I hear that trials with similar devices are to be held in airports this summer, so maybe it wont seem strange to have your face scanned in a few years time. Tangled If you were to draw up a list of dangerous professions, I somehow dont think youd put bellringer on the list. However, a church bellringer in Oxfordshire suffered a broken collar bone recently when he became tangled in the bell rope and hoisted up into the air, falling three feet to the floor. Because he was in a cramped church tower, firefighters had to use a pulley system to lower the poor man through a trapdoor in the floor. The 58 year old man has been bellringing for over three years, and said "I don't remember much, but the rope got caught on my trousers and up I went. That would be frightening for anybody I think, and it just goes to show that accidents will happen, even to bellringers. Well thats about it for todays Levy Letter. I hope you have a very good day, and if youre a Tigers fan and you were at the game last night, or perhaps watching at home or in a pub, send us along any photographs or comments for the programme and if we get time they might feature on the television. Enjoy the rest of your day, and I hope youll join me tonight at half past six on BBC One. 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
