Hi, Peter here. I was fascinated to see that some parts of the UK woke up to snow this morning. I didnt see anything more than a sharp frost on the car but I certainly felt the chill. It will certainly be cold on the terraces tonight when Hull City meets Chelsea at home tonight. I wonder if they will be able to keep up their unbeaten run?
Nosey News I have been reading today that Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a sensor which mimics the workings of the human nose. The US researchers claim to have overcome one of the biggest hurdles - mass production of proteins called "olfactory receptors". The average human has 100 million - and the MIT team say their technology could one day "sniff out" certain cancers which have distinctive chemical scents. Many researchers worldwide are working on "E-noses", which detect the same molecules that make up the scents we recognise. These potentially have a wide range of uses, in industry and medicine. However, while many rely on sensors constructed from artificial materials, the US researchers are working on a sensor with the biology of the human nose at its centre. The researchers said that any device they developed could be used to aid diagnosis of diseases, such as bladder, skin and lung cancers which all can give off distinctive molecules. I just cant help th! inking of the disembodied hand Thing in the Addams Family film Final Fallen As we wear our poppies to remember those that were lost in World Wars, I was saddened to read that in the closing minutes of World War I, the ceasefire within touching distance, a handful of troops died. It was just after 5 o'clock on the morning of 11 November, 1918, when British, French and German officials gathered in a railway carriage to the north of Paris and signed a document which would in effect bring to an end World War I. Within minutes, news of the Armistice - the cease fire - had been flashed around the world that the war, which was meant to "end all wars", was finally over. And yet it wasn't, because the cease-fire would not come into effect for a further six hours - at 11am - so troops on the frontline would be sure of getting the news that the fighting had stopped. So who were the last to die? New research by the BBC's Timewatch tells the story of some of the last to fall in WWI. Apparently, the final British soldier to be killed in action was Private G! eorge Edwin Ellison aged 40. Almost a million British soldiers had been killed in those intervening years, yet almost miraculously Pte Ellison had so far escaped uninjured. In just over an hour the ceasefire would come into force, the war would be over and Pte Ellison, a former coal miner, would return to the terraced street in Leeds to see his wife Hannah and their four-year-old son James. And then the shot rang out. George was dead - the last British soldier to be killed in action in WWI. At 10.45 another 40-year-old soldier, Frenchman Augustin Trebuchon, was taking a message to troops by the River Meuse saying that soup would be served at 11.30 after the peace, when he too was killed. It is said that, after the war, France was so ashamed that men would die on the final day that they had all the graves backdated. On a lighter note, I send best wishes to the Cherry Players for their wartime evening on Saturday 1 November at the Cherry Willingham Community School. It starts at 7pm and tickets are £20 or £60 for 4 to raise money for the Royal British Legion. They include a welcome drink, buffet, raffle ticket, entertainment by the Cherry Players and dancing with music by the fantastic Tony Stephens Swing band. (Box office number 01522 752940). Dont break a leg! Take care, bye 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.
