Hello and welcome to todays Levy Letter for Wednesday. I hope youre having a good week so far, and I hope youll join me tonight for Look North at the usual time of half past six on BBC One. Well have all the days news and stories from our part of the world, and the detailed weather forecast as well. Have we seen the end of the sunny weather for now? Well find out later on the programme.
Dont forget, if youve taken an interesting and unusual picture that you think we can show on the television, send it in to us. The standards are high, so if youve got something quite special let us have a look, and if youre going anywhere picturesque around our patch, remember to take your camera with you. You can drop a hard copy in the post to our Hull newsroom, or email it electronically to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thats also the address if you want to let us know about your comments or opinions, or any stories you know about that you think we should be covering. Keep us updated and remember we look at every single message. Scrabble I had a little bit in the letter not long ago about how research claims technology and the internet is proving a distraction to us in daily life, making it harder to get things done. Well theres one less distraction available today as a very popular time waster has been taken off the internet. A version of Scrabble on a popular networking site has been taken down due to legal action from the manufacturers of the board game. Now playing board games over the internet seems like a relatively new thing, and the online game was able to connect two people through cyberspace, competing in the famous word game. The game was played by an astonishing 500,000 users a day before it was taken down. Thats surely got to be more than the amount of people playing the game in its traditional form, hasnt it? Im told it was a very popular past time, and it would be interesting to know how this impacts on office productivity around the world. Its funny how these classic games which you might have thought would lose popularity in the computer age are actually getting a new lease of life through technology. Dads Army The BBC are marking the 40th anniversary of the classic comedy Dads Army by releasing documents from their archives from the time of the series production. One of the interesting things to emerge, and this has been picked up in the news, is that the iconic opening title sequence originally had archive footage of German soldiers and refugees, until the then BBC One controller ordered them to be removed as he found them offensive. They were then replaced with the sequence we all know with the arrows moving over Europe. Well I think its safe to say that the changes didnt have a negative effect on the shows popularity. Its still enjoyed today and regularly comes near the top of television popularity polls. As well as the internal BBC memos, the online archive also features a behind-the-scenes photo gallery and letters from the actors, and Jonathan Ross will be hosting a one-off special to commemorate the 40th anniversary on BBC Two on Sunday, 3 August at 1900 BST. Im sure that will be a very interesting watch if youre a fan. Alzheimers Just before I go, a quick mention of a story Im sure youll have seen in the news, but which warrants a mention here. Scientists in the UK have created a drug which they say can halt the progress of the degenerative condition, and produced an 81% difference in patients mental decline. The drug is to undergo larger trials, but its a fantastic breakthrough if its proven to work, and thats been developed by scientists in Britain. It could be on the market as early as 2012. Fantastic news. Well thats it from me for today. I hope you enjoy the rest of your afternoon, and join me tonight at half past six for Look North on BBC One. If you want to get in touch and let us know about anything, email in to the usual address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye for now Peter Your email address will be held by the BBC and kept confidential, and will only be used in relation to this newsletter. You will be given the option to unsubscribe from this newsletter each time you receive it. Please visit the BBC's Privacy & Cookies Policy (www.bbc.co.uk/privacy) for more information 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
