Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm as usual for Look North. Paul will have the forecast and my special guest tonight is the feminist, Germaine Greer. Shes coming to our part of the world to do her one woman show and Ill be talking to Germaine on the programme tonight. And of course, well have all the rest of the days news.
Tonight, on the programme Ill be looking at the uncertain future faced by hundreds of workers at the Birdseye factory in Hull as Unilever announce that its putting the site up for sale. Im also going to be looking at the campaign raised by university students to allow gay men to donate blood. And also tonight, well have some live music in the studio. BBC Radio Humbersides Raw Talent will be live at the music venue, The Lamp in Hull, at a very sought after gig tonight. Lots of interest in this one. Nick Harper, the son of the legendary folk singer, Roy Harper, is performing there and were lucky enough to get him in the studio to perform for us. So a busy programme tonight. I hope you can join me then. Sofa Tour Thanks to everyone, who came along to Grimsby today for the Sofa Tour. Weve just finished and it was great to see you all. Im now looking forward to next Thursday when Paul and I will both be in the Waterside shopping centre in Lincoln. If youre in the Lincoln area next Thursday, and you can make it along on Thursday morning from between 11am and 1pm for the Sofa Tour, I look forward to meeting you then! Anne Diamond Ive had loads of emails asking if we could have Anne Diamond on the programme. As you know, shes on Celebrity Fit Club at the moment on the television and has been in the news in her desperate attempt to lose weight with this little minor operation she had to help her. A lot of emails have come in from people saying they can relate to her story and what an interesting guest she would be on the programme. Well, Ive passed all your thoughts onto our producers, but Im sure shes very busy at the moment, but if we can get Anne on the programme then of course Ill let you know first in the Levy Letter. Property I see from a survey out that Hull is still the cheapest place in the UK to buy a house. And also at the other end of the scale, more homes, worth one million pounds or more, were sold each day in the last three months of last year, official figures reveal. Its the highest number of million pound properties ever sold in this country and proves the top end of the property market is booming! So there you are. Lots of houses sold were worth over a million pounds! Interesting to see as well, over in Cherry Burton way, I was looking in the paper at several houses there at the weekend, were selling at well over the million pound mark, but Hull is still the cheapest place in the UK to buy a property. Valentines Day Well, its Valentines Day next Tuesday on the 14th February. How would you like to send a message to your loved one in the Levy Letter? Well, if you do, then send me your message, the words that you want putting in and the name of your loved one and well put it in on Tuesday on Valentines Day. Of course you can get in touch with me at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] And talking of Valentines Day, are you worried about what to get your loved one? Does it annoy you how much shops put up the prices for gifts on February 14th? Well, theres no need to worry anymore as the price of true love is falling! Five years ago, a dozen red roses delivered to your partner on Valentines Day would have cost £60, but this year they can be yours for just £16! A well-known supermarket chain is slashing the prices of their delivered roses in an attempt to take on the ever-increasing florists prices! The Valentines Day market is big business with retailers and restaurateurs desperate to cash in on us lovesick consumers and is estimated to be worth over £40 million pounds! Can you believe that? Well, theres no excuse now for us, as the price of home-delivered roses has now been slashed from an average £60 to £16! I can hear a lot of men breathing a sigh of relief about that one! Women Waiting Women are waiting until thirty to marry, if they get married at all! Well, those are the latest statistics. I dont know what you think about that. Most women are waiting until they are nearly thirty before they marry. A smaller proportion of the population are choosing to marry and growing numbers of those who do are delaying tying the knot. Analysis of marriage shows that the average age for the first marriage of a woman is just over twenty-nine the oldest ever recorded! And thats up from twenty-eight in the previous year. Only fifteen years ago, a woman was likely to be married by the age of twenty five. Men, though, are married for the first time, on average, by the age of thirty-one. Thats up from twenty-seven in the 1990s. So there you are. Were all getting married later on in life and more and more of us are deciding not to marry at all. On that subject, of course, I can say absolutely nothing! Drop Me Line If youve got a story that you think I should know about or if youve got a photograph that youd like us to show on the Big Screen halfway through the programme, or if theres something for Leave it to Levy a problem youve got that you think we could tackle on your behalf, then do drop me a line. Send me all the details and of course let me have a contact telephone number for you. Its the usual address to get in touch with me any time [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, thats it from me for today. Id better get on and prepare the programme, having been out of the office this morning in Grimsby spending some time with you there on the Sofa Tour. Dont forget, I would love to see you on the sofa next Thursday in Lincoln. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Take care, 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. 1.94.4
