Hello, Peter here on this Tuesday morning. I have been talking to Paul Hendy from the National Flood Forum about Secondary Flooding. I have also been chatting to Graham Walker and Robin Colvill, (otherwise known as the Grumbleweeds) who are currently in panto in Hull. Tomorrow I will be chatting to Daniel O'Donnell. I hope that you will be able to listen in live on 95.9fm, DAB, or perhaps listen again at bbc.co.uk/Humberside.
Christmas Romance? Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed. Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love. They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner. Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them. Psychologists at the family and personal relationships laboratory at the university studied 40 top box office hits between 1995 and 2005, and identified common themes which they believed were unrealistic. The movies included You've Got Mail, Maid In Manhattan, The Wedding Planner and While You Were Sleeping. As part of the project, 100 student volunteers were asked to watch the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity, while a further 100 watched a David Lynch drama. Students watching the romantic f! ilm were later found to be more likely to believe in fate and destiny. A further study found that fans of romantic comedies had a stronger belief in predestined love. Kimberly Johnson, who also worked on the study, said: "Films do capture the excitement of new relationships but they also wrongly suggest that trust and committed love exist from the moment people meet, whereas these are qualities that normally take years to develop." Oh dear, what a dilemma for us men buying Christmas presents! Madonnas £50m Payout for Divorce Settlement Madonna has paid former husband Guy Ritchie around £50m as part of their divorce settlement. The pop star's US spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press the figure included the value of the couple's Ashcombe home in England. She said the financial part of the settlement had been worked out but custody of the couple's children had yet to be finalised. "I'd assume it's one of the largest payouts ever in a divorce," she said. The payout is much larger than the £24.3m Heather Mills received from Sir Paul McCartney earlier this year. When the divorce was made official last month, Ritchie told the Daily Mirror the split was "never, ever about money". The couple, who wed at Skibo Castle in Scotland in December 2000, were granted their divorce at the High Court in London. A sworn statement released by the court showed the pop star petitioned for divorce on the grounds of the film director's unreasonable behaviour. The singer is currently on her Sticky and Swee! t world tour, and is due to perform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thats all for today. 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.
