Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Lisa will have the forecast. By the way, if youve been missing Paul, then hell be back on Monday on the programme. Plus well have all the days news and also our special guest on the programme tonight is a great actor. Hes in just about everything at the moment, including a top BBC1 series and he lives in Lincolnshire. Who is he? Well, find out tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm.
Grimsby Just an early mention here, of something were starting. This is called the BBC1 Sofa Tour! And Paul and I are going to various shopping centres to sit on a sofa and have a chat with people. If you can make it along, then our first Sofa Tour will be between 11am and 1pm next Thursday at the Freshney Place shopping centre in Grimsby. If you can make it along, then spread the word. Paul and I will be there for two hours with nothing to do except chat to you. So, if you can make it along to the Freshney Place shopping centre in Grimsby from between 11am and 1pm, then I look forward to seeing you. The week after, although I will remind you of this nearer the time, Paul and I will be, for two hours, in the Waterside shopping centre in Lincoln! But next Thursday, well be in Grimsby! Hope to see you there. Water I mentioned earlier in the week, the threat of standpipes after the driest winter since 1976. Millions of families face water shortages, following the driest winter for thirty years. Several people have written in to say how ludicrous this is and how daft and how can we possibly be in this situation in the middle of winter. If this is what its like now, then imagine what its going to be like in the middle of the summer! This is true and one of the biggest threats apparently, which will be devastating news for us none-golfers, is that golf clubs face watering bans on their greens! Its a serious story. The actual rainfall has been exceedingly low for this winter and the threat of standpipes and water rationing may be upon us soon. Anyway, this is a story that, no doubt, well be covering in more detail on the programme as it becomes clear what the situation is. Stories Dont forget, if youve got a story or an idea that you think we should cover on the programme one night, then in the first instance, drop me a line and then Ill pass it on to the right people. Of course, drop me a line at any time and also over the weekend. If you want to write, then its [EMAIL PROTECTED] And by the way, if you fancy getting tickets to go see Craig David, then weve got some to give away in a special competition in the Levy Letter on Monday! Cold Callers We all know them. Well be at home, minding our own business, the phone rings and somebody will be on the phone trying to sell you double glazing or whatever. Well, one guy from Holland has come up with the answer. Its on the internet, but everyone seems to be printing them off and keeping them at home. As soon as this person rings up, then youve got a list of questions here and you go straight in and ask him or her these questions. Number one to whom am I speaking? Can you spell your name for me? How did you get this number? Is this your full time job? What else do you do? How long have you been in the tele-marketing business? Do you like your job? How much do you earn? Do you get time off for going to the dentist? Theres a whole list of these questions, and then hopefully, the person at the other end of the telephone will give up and go away! So, there you are how to silence cold callers at their cost and the questions are apparently all over the internet at the mom! ent - how to silence cold callers when they ring you in the middle of your tea or in the evening. And I know some people, who stay in during the day, after about eleven oclock, around lunchtime, they get loads and loads of calls, because Ive had emails about it. Dont forget, if youve got a problem, that you think we might be able to tackle on the programme in Leave it to Levy, then give me the details. Tell me what it is you want us to sort out, leave it to us and well see if we can do it on Look North in the next few weeks. Wages Recent reports have revealed that up to a third of all working women now earn more than their husbands. Increasingly husbands are either working part time from home or are becoming fully-fledged house husbands. Well, apparently, this is becoming the norm more and more often. There was a time, wasnt there, when someone from my generation, just assumed that the men earned more than the women. I know thats a very old-fashioned view now, and of course statistically that is still true, but now up to a third of all women are actually earning more than their husbands! Men Well, who are the top hundred sexiest men? Well, the list has just been published. Whos number one? Well, Brad Pitt of course. No surprises there. Johnny Depp is number four! Shayne Ward is number seven, Daniel Craig at number eight. Further down the list, Prince Harry is at fifty-six, can you believe? Colin Firth is at sixty and Pierce Brosnan at sixty-two. Who is your number one sexy man? Your nominations please? Theres a hundred on the list and Paul is not in the top hundred! I see that a tiny baby was born this week, called George Ray Scott. Theres nothing unusual in that, but he actually makes history. Even though he is only two days old and sleeping soundly and he was born at just eight pounds fifteen ounces theres still nothing unusual in that. Except that he makes the population in this country top sixty million for the first time! So hes made history and will always be in the history books. Hes the sixty millionth person in the country and hes called George Ray Scott and was born at lunchtime two days ago. And that is the population in this country now sixty million! Dream Job Now, whos job do you think is a dream job? I hear you say reading aloud for half an hour is not a bad job! Well, its the kind of occupation that most people can only dream of - being paid £60 000 a year to sleep at work. Well, the lucky man, who can nod off when he likes, is a chap called Wayne Munnelly, the worlds first Director of Sleep! A well-known hotel chain has appointed Mr Munnelly to perfect the art of sleep for everyone in the companys seventeen thousand rooms. The post comes with a private health scheme and a pension and as the bed is his office, then he can drop off as much as he likes, with his boss blessing! He will examine everything from mattress tension and pillow density to room lighting and sound proofing. Hes also working on a recipe for a blissful eight hours sleep. Mr Munnelly, who is from Leeds, said that getting the balance right to deliver a sound nights sleep is close to science! Well, I suppose it might be close to science, but its not a! bad job. All youve got to do is to test the beds out and earn £60 000 a year! Bridge Concert As you know theres a concert in the summer to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Humber Bridge. I was talking to Katherine Jenkins the other night on the programme and we had loads of emails from people suggesting who else could be on alongside Katherine. Without doubt, the Beautiful South get the biggest vote, with people saying that theyre a Hull band and are associated with the city and why cant they sing. So of course, well pass those suggestions on to the organisers. A lady called Linda Cressey is organising the concert. Well see if anything comes of that. Any more suggestions of course, then please get in touch and let me know. Of course, if theres someone youd like to see on the programme, a guest for the sofa, then most people, who have written in, would like to see the Beautiful South interviewed by me. Well see if we can get that one sorted out as well. Any more suggestions of guests, then do let me know [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, thats it from me for today. Have a very good weekend. If youre with anyone, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter, then get them to do so over the weekend. If they want a daily email from me, then get them to go to either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions through and theyll get their daily Levy Letter from Monday. Dont forget, if youre a Craig David fan, or know someone whod like to go see him perform, then well have the exclusive Levy Letter competition on Monday. So watch out for that. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and have a very good weekend! Bye for now, 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
