Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter for Monday. What wonderful weather to start off the week, lets hope it stays like this long enough for us to take advantage of it. I expect lots of barbecues and garden parties while its nice and warm. If you got up to anything nice over the weekend I hope it went very well indeed.
Tonights Look North is at the later time of half past seven on BBC One for one night only, so dont forget to rearrange your viewing schedule. On tonights programme we ask how far would you go to try and prevent serious illness? We'll meet an East Yorkshire woman who had her stomach removed after doctors found she may be at risk of cancer. Is our race to makeover our gardens with gravel and other landscaping actually having a detrimental effect on the East Coast? We'll find out how dredging could be speeding up coastal erosion. And we meet the teenaged lottery winner from Lincolnshire who's bought himself a flash sports car even though he hasn't even passed his test! Well have all the rest of the days news and stories as well as the detailed weather forecast tonight all coming up on Look North tonight at the special time of half past seven on BBC One. I hope you can join me then. Milk The way we buy milk has already changed quite a lot over the years, a lot of people will remember when milk always came from the milkman but now its almost all from the supermarket, and the changes could be set to continue. One of the UKs biggest supermarkets is to introduce a new environmentally friendly way of packaging milk, which could save 100,000 tons of plastic waste a year. Milk is to be sold in recyclable plastic bags instead of the common plastic bottle, which of course we tend to throw away after use. The bags are made of strong plastic material and will fit inside a reusable jug. They are opened with a spike that pierces the bag and forms a no-leak seal apparently. The bags can be recycled with your other plastics when theyre empty. Its a very interesting idea, and it looks like it could help save a lot of waste, it does seem that plastic milk bottles seem to account for so much of what we throw away. I just wonder how the bags will hold up when theyre tossed into a bulging shopping bag along with other items. Ive heard that some shops have been selling milk in bags for a little while, but this might mean the idea is ready to move into the mainstream. So soon we could be popping out for a bag of milk in the morning where not long ago we were picking up the glass bottles from our doorstep. No Lorries Weve all heard those horror stories of people following satellite navigation devices in their vehicles and being led off cliffs, or under bridges that are too low, and now its been deemed such a significant problem that the government wants to introduce a no lorries warning sign to prevent drivers following impossible instructions. Where lorry drivers might be directed under low bridges, or excessively narrow roads, the signs will be put up to prevent accidents. According to Network Rail, lorries caused £15 million worth of damage in 2007/2008 by hitting low or narrow bridges while following the gadgets. In the last decade, these incidents have doubled to around 2,000 a year. You have to wonder about their common sense dont you? Maybe one of the problems with these machines is that we get into the habit of following them no matter what, although as many of us have discovered, its a lot easier and safer to follow while youre driving than a large map! Dont forget that were always looking out for any stories you might know about, or anything interesting you want us to hear. If youve got a story or an opinion, or if youve got an unusual photograph we can show on Look North then send it in to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look at every message we receive, and of course lots of what you see on the programme came from things that were sent in to us. Keep it up, and I look forward to seeing what we come across this week. Well thats it from me, have a very good day, enjoy the nice weather, and dont forget to join me for Look North tonight at the different time of half past seven 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
