Category: E.Yorks & Lincs TV
Date: 07.02.2006
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Popular Â鶹Éç television presenter Peter Levy and weatherman Paul Hudson will be swapping their studio for several shopping malls when they embark on the 2006 Look North Sofa Tour this week.
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The pair appear on the region's news magazine programme Â鶹Éç Look North at 6.30pm on Â鶹Éç ONE from Monday to Friday.
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They will be in Freshney Place Shopping Centre, Grimsby, from 11.00am to 1.00pm on Thursday 9 February.
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They will also be travelling to the Waterside Shopping Centre, Lincoln, on Thursday 16 February to meet and greet viewers.
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Peter said: "We're really looking forward to meeting everyone who watches the programme, and hear about what they think of the show.
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"These are the first two visits but we're hoping to get round most of the major shopping centres in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire over the coming year so please come along and say hello."
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Peter has lived in Yorkshire since his late teens when he applied for a job on a new commercial radio station in the patch and was interviewed by renowned broadcaster Austin Mitchell.
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He was hired and soon moved to TV where he became a familiar daytime Â鶹Éç news reader throughout Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, as well as having his own Â鶹Éç radio show.
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He then moved to Hull to present Â鶹Éç Look North's nightly news programme from studios in the city.
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Paul was born and brought up in Keighley, near Bradford, and after reading geophysics and planetary physics at Newcastle University joined the Met Office and did two years at Leeds Weather Centre.
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He combined this with a two-year stint
as number two weather presenter for Â鶹Éç Look North and for the Â鶹Éç local radio stations in Leeds, York, Humberside and Sheffield before becoming the main weatherman.
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