  The First Look Survey (FLS) is the first scientific product to emerge from
the Spitzer Space Telescope. A small region of this field (the verification
strip) has been imaged very deeply, permitting the detection of cosmologically
distant sources. We present Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)
observations of this region, encompassing a ~1 sq. deg field, centred on the
verification strip (J2000 RA=17:17:00.00, DEC=59:45:00.000). The radio images
reach a noise level of ~ 8.5 microJy/beam - the deepest WSRT image made to
date. We summarise here the first results from the project, and present the
final mosaic image, together with a list of detected sources. The effect of
source confusion on the position, size and flux density of the faintest sources
in the source catalogue are also addressed. The results of a serendipitous
search for HI emission in the field are also presented. Using a subset of the
data, we clearly detect HI emission associated with four galaxies in the
central region of the FLSv. These are identified with nearby, massive galaxies.
