Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight BBC1 at 6.30pm. Well have all the days news, plus well have the weather forecast and also more announcements have been made about the concert, which is being staged in the summer. In fact there are more than one concert in the series of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the Humber Bridge. On the programme tonight, Ill be talking to the singer, Katherine Jenkins, wholl be coming to Hull in the summer to perform at one of the concerts for the Humber Bridge anniversary. So Katherine Jenkins will be our guest tonight. Also tonight, well have a Leave it to Levy where Ill be looking for some male salsa dancers in Skegness. Does that sound like you? Well, tune in tonight to find out more!
Supermarkets I see that there is a gadget on the way, which will speed things up even more at the supermarket checkout. Its a scanning device, which scans from all directions, so a checkout operator doesnt need to check for a barcode, the machine will automatically find the barcode and will just scan straight through. They did say, didnt they, a few years ago, that checkout operators will soon be a thing of the past, because we wont need them as well scan the items through ourselves, but they still seem to be there. This device sends out six thousand scans a second from all angles, so finds the black and white stripes wherever they are on the product, even on awkwardly shaped items like melons. This allows the staff to move the product across the scanner in one movement, instead of fumbling to find the barcode and angling it at the scanner. The high optic scanner is being introduced across the country and claims are that the device will slash 10% off the average waiting time in a ch! eckout queue. So there you are - thats a bit more progress for you. Of course, I remember when barcodes were first introduced and they didnt work properly and they used to have to swipe things through three or four times and even then it didnt always work. So they would have to ring a bell and call out for someone to give assistance to find out how much the product was. And I remember one day standing in a busy supermarket, with everybody there watching and something wouldnt scan, so the checkout girl held the item out and shouted out, Shampoo for greasy hair? And I cringed of course. So there you go, thats progress for you. The queues at the checkout will be cut by 10%! Drought I dont know if you can believe this, but were heading for the worst drought for a century. Apparently, theres not been much rain over the last couple of months. Water restrictions will be in place in weeks as Britain will be crippled by the worst drought in a hundred years. Reservoirs and underground supplies, apparently, across huge swathes of the most densely populated areas are at the lowest that theyve been for years as the country runs out of water. This actually includes our area. More homes will be hit by hose pipe bans, which are already affecting millions and householders are being urged to save water. So there you are. Can you believe that? Water restrictions will be on their way shortly. And this is in the winter, so weve got the summer to come! Levy Letter Statistics show that more and more people are signing up to the Levy Letter every day, so if youve been spreading the word around, or if youre a relatively new reader to the Levy Letter, then thank you very much indeed for signing up. Just the usual reminder that if you want to drop me a line at any time, day or night, then you can get me straight away on email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to drop me a line about anything in the Letter, or if youve got any ideas for Look North for the programme, or any ideas for stories that you think we might like to cover, or if youve got a problem that we might be able to help with on Leave it to Levy, then give me the details for that as well! Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pictures Dont forget that were looking for photographs and scenic views of our part of the world for the Big Screen, which we show half way through Look North every night. If youve got a picture that youre particularly proud of send it to me either electronically or send me a hard copy in the post to BBC Look North, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. And watch out every night to see if your picture pops up on screen! Anne Diamond I see that Anne Diamond is back in the news again. Once TVs golden girl, but shes now suffered the humiliation of being sacked as a team captain on the flab busting TV reality show. Fourteen stone Anne was relieved of her leadership duties on the Celebrity Fit Club after throwing a tantrum during a work out supervised by squaddies. Apparently, Anne stormed off after twenty minutes saying, Two little idiots from the army shouting at me - for heavens sake, Im fifty-one. I dont have to put up with this! And apparently, the shows drill instructor, Harvey Walden, promptly sacked her. The source adds in the paper that she looked really shocked and her team mates were fed up with her whinging. I have to say that Im probably the only person, whos never seen an edition of Celebrity Fat Club, or whatever its called. But Anne Diamond has been sacked as team captain and is fourteen stone. Divorzzz I see that snoring, hogging the duvet and other antisocial sleeping habits are driving increasing numbers of couples to the brink of divorce, according to a new survey. The average Briton spends fifty-one minutes lying awake at night due to their partners annoying behaviour. Thats the equivalent of thirty-eight nights missed sleep a year! Thats incredible isnt it? More than a quarter of men and women admit they row about such matters as soon as they get into bed and snoring is increasingly cited in divorce proceedings as an example of unreasonable behaviour. According to the survey, 60% of adults endure a partner who snores, where another 41% say they face a nightly battle to hang onto their share of the duvet. Snoring is the bed crime number one, duvet stealing is number two, tossing and turning all night is number three. Also in there in the list is coughing, moving onto a partners side, sleep talking, grinding teeth, sleep walking and number ten is sleep singing! Wel! l, Ive never actually heard of that one before! But its leading more and more people to divorce. So snoring is a very big problem at the moment. If youve got any tips or advice or handy hints on how not to snore at night, then they would be gratefully received not of course for me, you understand, but by readers to the Levy Letter! Morrissey Well, Id like to announce the winner of our Morrissey competition. Tickets for this gig in Grimsby sold out in seventeen minutes, so these tickets are very sought after. Well, the winner is Victoria Evans from Brigg and shell be going to see Morrissey perform live at the Grimsby Auditorium. So congratulations to her! Well, thats it from me for today. Have a very good Wednesday. Watch out for tonights programme at 6.30pm. Well also be talking about vegetarian cookery. One of Americas top chefs and top cookery writer will be joining me on the programme tonight to talk about vegetarian food ahead of a big bash at the Deep tonight. So have a very good day and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. And look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow. And of course, if you want to drop me a line then get in touch at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. 1.94.4
