Hello, its Peter here and welcome to the start of another week and Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope your weekend was good. I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Well have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast and also tonight, on the eve of Valentines Day, I will be talking to one of the best experts around on the subject of dating. Hell be giving us advice on how to avoid Valentines Day disasters! Also tonight, Ill be talking to a Hull University student, whos come up with a novel way of funding his degree and Ill be looking at the Philip Larkin recordings found hidden in a loft in Hornsea. They are previously unheard recordings of Philip Larkin reading his own poetry. Thats tonight, on BBC1 at 6.30pm. I hope you can join me then.
Danish Farmers I see that one of the stories that everyone is talking about at the moment is the Danes coming up to our part of the world and buying up our farmland. For more than a thousand years after the last Viking invaders settled on the East coast, the Danes are back and are buying British farmland, because it is more of an attractive prospect than their own. Some seven and a half thousand acres of prime farmland in the East of England have been sold to Danish buyers in the past two years and agents report an increasing interest from prospective Danish buyers. Not since the Dutch bulb and vegetable growers started buying up land in East Anglia in the seventies can anyone remember an invasion on such a scale! Where are they coming to? Well, theyre coming to Lincolnshire. Mr Helstropp, a Danish farmer, farmed 250 acres of his own land, plus 50 acres of rented land, until he sold it to buy in England. He found Lincolnshire appealing, because it has a warmer climate. That is of course c! ompared to Denmark! And there are fewer environmental and land ownership regulations. He hopes to grow wheat, oil seed rape and winter barley on his new Lincolnshire farm and is undeterred by the prevailing low commodity prices. So there you are. The Danes are coming and are buying up Lincolnshire. Your views on that of course are gratefully received. Guests Dont forget if youve got a guest that you think youd like to see on the programme, then let me now. A couple of people have written in to me to ask if PJ Proby could come on. Hes playing Skegness. Ive passed that suggestion on to the producers. But if youve got an idea for a guest, or if youve got a story that we should do, or a problem that you think we could tackle on your behalf in Leave it to Levy, then do drop me a line. Of course the email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And a reminder that if you know anyone, who is not receiving a Levy Letter, but you think they would like one, then tell them to go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and sign up. They will then get their first Levy Letter the day after. And dont forget on Valentines Day tomorrow, we are sending out a few Valentines messages in the Levy Letter. If you would like to send a message to your loved one and you would like to have it in the Levy Letter, so that if theyre signed up too, they will be able to read it, then let me know. Write to me today and Ill put it in tomorrows Levy Letter. Try and get it to me today by tea time, as competition is fierce to get in for tomorrows Letter. Freddie Starr Well, theres still hope for me! The comic, Freddie Starr, is to become a father for the fifth time. Can you believe that? And hes sixty-two! His third wife is Donna and shes nearly thirty-five and is three months pregnant. She says, that were both absolutely delighted and were keeping our fingers crossed that everything goes according to plan. So there you are. Freddie actually divorced Donna in 1999, but they then remarried less than a year later. As an interviewer, Freddie Starr is one of those people you want to interview, but you dont want to interview him live! Well, Freddie has become a father for the fifth time at the age of sixty-two! Housework I dont suppose any of us like doing housework or household chores. More people have a cleaner now though than ever before, even though its extremely difficult to get hold of a cleaner these days. I was interested to read though about the self-cleaning bathroom that could be just around the corner and soon in your home. Researchers are developing surface coatings, which kill bacteria and cause water to run straight off, washing them in the process. The technology cuts the needs for chemical cleaning products, it is claimed. Scientists are treating surfaces with tiny particles of titanium dioxide. If this works then the days of having to clean the bathroom after taking a bath are over! I dont want to be a kill-joy, but Im rather sceptical about that one. Weve heard that one before! Well, thats it from me for today. Have a very good afternoon and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for tonights Look North. Dont forget, if you want to drop me a line or if youve got a photograph as well, that youd like us to show on the Big Screen half-way through the programme, a local view that youre particularly proud of, then send that to me. Either a hard copy in the post, or electronically via email to the usual address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take care, thanks for reading. 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
