Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope your weekend was good.
And if Monday isnt bad enough, I read this morning in the paper that a third of all employers think that employees aged fifty and above are on the scrap heap. So thats depressing news for us to start the week! And I dont know if any teachers sign up for the Levy Letter, Im sure theyre far too sensible to sign up for this, but teachers have a laugh at school and thats no joke! According to a new in-depth report, which is out this morning staff enjoy their job so much that they laugh out loud on average every nine minutes according to the study. Its very hard to believe, it has to be said. Anyway if any teachers have been signed up for the Levy Letter then do please get in touch. Ill tell you what were also looking for this morning. Were going to be making a couple of films in the near future for Look North on the subject of the police, possibly on Humberside merging with North Yorkshire. If youre a serving police officer and would like to take part in our little film, then do get in touch. And also as far as Birdseye is concerned, are there any staff members or employees of Birdseye who would like to get in touch with us as well. Get in touch with me as soon as possible. Of if you know of somebody who works at Birdseye and would like to take part in a film, then contact me in the usual way at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tonight at 6.30pm Join me tonight for all the days news and Lisa Gallagher will have the weather forecast. And also we shall be talking to the comedian Lee Evans whos coming to the Sheffield Arena on the 7th October! Salt I see that families are turning their back on salt after the constant warnings of its danger. Now theyre using more herbs and pepper to flavour their foods. As a result, sales of salt have fallen by 13% over the last 5 years. The decline follows campaigns by the Food Standards Agency linking salt to high blood pressure and strokes. I have to say that Im not one of that 13% having always enjoyed a lot of salt on my food. But anyway, thats not P.C. these days. Table salt was the worst affected - sales down by 15% in the last two years. In contrast, pepper sales have risen 55% over the last five years! Leave it to Levy Dont forget if youve got a problem or an issue that you think we may be able to tackle on the programme then do get in touch. Give me the details and of course your telephone number. We need details like, what the story is, what the problem is and what we can do about it. Drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bridget Jones I see that millions of women, now in their twenties, face lives of loneliness as they enter middle age. They were told yesterday that one in three will not be in a marriage or have a male partner by the time they hit their mid-forties, a government forecast said. Can you believe this! 1 in 5 will never have married and many will face middle age and old age with neither a partner, nor children or family to support them. The projections of a bleak future for many women in the Bridget Jones generation were published by the National Office of Statistics. Thats incredible, isnt it, to think how things have changed? So there you are, it says that 20% of woman aged between 45 50 in 2031 will never have married and will have no partner. And also on the subject of age, continued improvements of life expectancy mean that women currently aged 65 can look forward to celebrating their 89th birthday. Men of the same age on average will reach their 86th birthday. The figures are good news for individuals, but will place enormous pressure on the nations pension systems which are already groaning of course under the burden of the ageing population. So there you are, todays women of sixty-five can expect to live until eighty-nine. We are all living longer, or maybe it just seems longer! Photographs Dont forget keep your photos coming in for the Big Screen. If youve got a photo that youre particularly proud of and you think we could use it on the programme then send it in to the usual address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and have a good day until then! 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.
