Hello there, and welcome to the midweek edition of the Levy Letter. I hope you managed to watch Look North last night as we were live from the Humber Bridge. Many of you have been in contact about your thoughts on the Humber Bridge tolls, so please keep them coming. You can contact me on the usual way on [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have anything else you would like to talk about too, please get in touch.
Wind in the Willows The classic characters Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger are celebrating their 100th anniversary today as today marks 100 years since their first publication. To celebrate, an Oxfordshire museum is launching a competition for fans to see how their beloved characters would cope in the 21st century. I think it is a great idea and will get young readers questioning their surroundings and Im sure fans will love to read the winning story. The Beatles and the Bard Now Im not sure whether you would usually mention The Beatles and Shakespeare in the same sentence but Ive been reading about a singer from a Beatles tribute band who has put the words of William Shakespeare to music in the style of the Fab Four. He will be performing them in his one man show A Bard Days Night. He has found some of the speeches difficult to put to music but has found the sonnets a lot easie. So there you go, another reworking of Shakespeares work! If it goes down well, maybe Sir Paul might try adding it to his set list! Lost Penguins Apparently hundreds of penguins were found along the Brazilian coast and an air force plane had to return them to their native territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. Every year penguins make their way from the colder waters and travel north in search of food. It is thought that they may have made a journey of more than 3,000km from their home in Patagonia to the southern tip of South America. Every year the Brazilian air force helps penguins return home but this year they have had to deal with higher numbers than usual. Most of them were flown on a Hercules plane but some are returning on a navy vessel. It sounds like the plot of a childrens film, a group of penguins looking for food, who end up in one of the hottest countries in the world! How bizarre! Searching the skies Could a new planet be discovered this year? After Pluto was downgraded, it seems that there may be a new sight in the skies. The European telescope Corot, which tries to find new planets, has spotted an object which it cant quite distinguish. It is about the size of Jupiter but is 20 times bigger in mass. It has been named Corot-exo-3b but scientists are unsure if the object is a planet or a failed star. Well I do hope the scientists manage to work out what it is; otherwise it will just remain a mystery! Well that is all for todays Levy Letter. I do hope you will join me for tonights Look North. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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.
