Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast as usual.
Ive got a very special guest tonight! Ill be talking to the Olympic rower, Sir Steve Redgrave! Hes flown over from the Winter Olympics and is in the region today. So Ill be talking to him tonight. Ill also be talking to the Boston family, who were caught up in the Mexican hurricane whilst on holiday. Theyre now campaigning for compensation from their holiday company. Ill have more on that story. Ive also got a Leave it to Levy for you. I need your help to find budding male models! Ill be asking a top male model in our region for some top tips for all you wannabe models out there. Also, as you will have heard from my previous email, well be looking into the affect the closing of KIT, Kingston Interactive TV, will have on the digital viewers in Hull. And I look forward to speaking to anyone, who is available to be filmed this morning. Im looking for anyone, who is a regular viewer of KIT and would be available to be filmed about their thoughts on this decision by Ki! ngston Communications this morning. You can get me direct, if youre available this morning, on 01482 314511. I look forward to hearing from you. So, a busy programme. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Duvet Covers You sometimes mention something and then are amazed at the response. I said that the job that I hate the most and find the most difficult to do at home is putting the duvet cover on the duvet and its prompted quite a few emails with tips and advice. This one from Carol Coupland and Im actually laughing about this as Im writing it, because its just so funny. Because Carol has written in from Paris, where she says the weather is overcast and its 16.5 degrees Celsius outside. Shes written from Paris with instructions for me on how to put the duvet cover on. She says that its extremely simple! I wont go through all the instructions for you, because by the sounds of it, you all know what to do. Carol has been in Paris since 1972, but she never forgets the wonderful Lincolnshire people. So somebody has sat down in Paris and has emailed me about how to put the duvet cover on! Im sure I could think of better things to do in Paris than email me. So thank you Carol very much for that. She also says, Please send lots of love to my Auntie Eva Coupland, whos in Skegness. So hello to Auntie Eva! Its funny you should say your name is Coupland, because one of those freebie DVDs that was in the newspaper the other day was an episode of Bless This House. Do you remember that? With Sid James and the lovely Sally Geeson from the mid seventies and of course that was with Diana Coupland as well. And dont know what has happened to Diana. You never seem to hear about her? I dont know if she is still with us or not. I hope somebody has the answer to that one. Just one more here from Tony D. Whilst on the subject of changing the duvet cover, I find grab the top left corner of the duvet, stuff it into the top right hand corner of the cover, repeat with the top right hand corner. Hold top right and hold top left of cover and duvet firmly and give it a good shake. Fasten up the bottom and its done! So I think we should draw a veil over the subject of duvet covers! Pictures Dont forget if youve got a photograph or a picture that we can use, then get in touch. We showed a picture of a deer that somebody had taken last night on the programme. If youve got moving pictures or stills, then do get in touch with me. You can email me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if theres something that you think would make a good Leave it to Levy, if youve got a problem or an issue at the moment and youre not sure what the answer is, well get in touch. Give me the details, tell me the story of your problem and of course dont forget to leave a contact telephone number as well. As ever, you can contact me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Childrens Birthdays It used to be enough to provide sandwiches and jelly, followed by a game of Pass the Parcel or Musical Chairs, or at least it was when I was a kid at least, but how things have changed. The trend towards ever more elaborate childrens birthday parties have sent the average cost in this country for a childrens birthday party to £200! Todays eager-to-please parents feel the need to hire bouncy castles, stage fancy dress parties or take children to theme parks and ten pin bowling alleys. I cant believe that cost! Also parents shell out huge sums of money for items to put in the party bags for the children when they leave at the end of the party. The average party at the moment in this country for children costs £200. I can hardly believe that. And the average cost of a home has topped the £200,000 mark for the first time ever. Not in Yorkshire and Humberside though, where the average is only £153,000, but the average cost of a house in this country has now topped £200,000 mark for the first time! The average asking price has leapt by more than £5000 this month. The largest monthly rise for nearly two years and for the first time in twenty months the price rise has increased in every region of England and Wales and including of course Yorkshire and Humberside. But in the grand scheme of things, the North of England is still actually cheaper than Yorkshire and Humberside. Presumably that includes the Greater Manchester suburbs. But the average price of a house now is £200,000! And the headline in one paper today Middle Aged People Can Expect To Live To 100! Of course, I was immediately drawn to this article. Two careers, three marriages and a seventy-five year mortgage is likely to be the norm. Most middle aged people today could live to see their one hundredth birthday thanks to predicted medical advances, a leading biologist has predicted. Already cholesterol lowering drugs and new cancer medicines have dramatically improved treatments of some illnesses typically found in old age. Levy Letter Still people are signing up to the Levy Letter. New readers are joining all the time. If theres someone you know whos not getting a Levy Letter at the moment and they would like one, then sign them up or get them to sign up themselves. Tell them to click on either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and then follow the instructions through. If they do it today, then theyll get their first Levy Letter from tomorrow. Thank you for reading. Enjoy your afternoon. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. See you tonight on the programme. 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