Hi there, Peter here. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and I must admit that I had to turn the heating up a couple of notches due to the really cold weather. Have you made a start on putting up your Christmas decorations yet? I hope the Christmas shopping is going well but did you hear about the contaminated pork that is in the shops?
Police in the Irish Republic have been called in to investigate how pigs in the country came to be contaminated with potentially harmful dioxins. Millstream Power Recycling Ltd said it was investigating how the firm's "strict health and safety procedures... could possibly have been breached". The risk is said to be low, but people are advised not to eat any Irish pork. The advice also currently includes pork products from Northern Ireland as nine farms there - in addition to 47 in the Irish Republic - were supplied with the same feed being linked to the contamination. A spokesman for Millstream Power Recycling said the oil which officials were testing had never been added as an ingredient but was used in a machine used to dry animal feed. But as a precaution consumers have been warned not to eat any Irish pork and bacon products bought since 1 September. Bacon, ham, sausages, white pudding and pizzas with ham toppings are included in the recall. Terrys Christmas Tune Did you see that Sir Terry Wogan has paired up with Aled Jones to release a version of Bing Crosby and David Bowies hit, Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth, for Christmas? The single will be released on 8th December in aid of Children in Need. "Aled Jones sings like the canary that he is," said Sir Terry, who had a hit in 1978 with Floral Dance. "But listeners may also detect my croaking in the background and wonder if it's a rumbling of the stomach." Crosby recorded his duet with Bowie for a TV special filmed shortly before his death in October 1977. Former boy soprano Jones, who had a hit himself in 1985 with Walking in the Air, said it had been "fantastically surreal" to record the song with Sir Terry at Abbey Road studios in London. "I don't know if this wave of support will take us all the way to Top of the Pops," he said, referring to the extensive airplay the song has received on Chris Evans' Radio 2 show. "But we're having a lot of fun helping r! aise money for Children in Need." This year's Children in Need broadcast raised almost £21m on the night for worthy causes. Organisers expect the annual fundraiser to beat the £37m raised last year once all the money is collected. Well done Pudsey! Ive been talking to Gemma Jones who plays Connie James in Spooks today on my radio show. If you missed it, you can always listen again on bbc.co.uk/humberside . Perhaps you remember Gemma as the lead in the BBC television drama set in London between 1900 and 1925, The Duchess of Duke Street, when she played a celebrated cook who entertained royalty. It starred Gemma as Louisa Trotter, who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, Marylebone in London. The story was loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis (née Ovenden), the Duchess of Jermyn Street, who ran the Cavendish Hotel in London. When the show first aired, there were many people who still remembered the real life Rosa, as she lived until 1952, and was born in Leyton, Essex, to a watchmaker. Well, there you go. A little bit of history brought to life and now Gemma is very much up to date in her role with Spooks. Thats all for today, I hope you will join me for Look North this evening. 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. 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.
