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 on BBC1 at 6.30pm.
If you live in the Wetwang area, then well have something of special interest for you tonight and Ill be talking to Dickie Bird. Also tonight, Ill be looking at the complaints made against Humberside Polices call centres. A number of you have written in with complaints about their call handling on the Forces new 0845 number. Ill be talking to the Chief Constable, Tim Hollis, about your concerns. If you want me to put forward any of your questions or concerns to Tim Hollis, then please email me today and Ill do my best to put them to him and get answers for you. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual. Also tonight, do you fancy giving the kiss of life to a sperm whale? Well, Ill be talking to someone whos running a first aid course for sea mammals! With the recent large number of beached whales on our coastline this year, these skills could come in handy! Im not sure if youre aware or not, but the new series of The Apprentice starts tonight on BBC2. One checkout girl from Hull is a contestant in this competition vying for a chance to work for the entrepreneur, Alan Sugar and earn a six figure salary! Ill be talking to the Executive Producer of the series, Alan Brown, about the task facing Michelle tonight and whether her tactics so far will keep her in the running. Michelle Dewberry is a former Sydney Smith High School pupil and is now battling it out against fourteen other contestants in this new series. Well, were you a pupil at Sydney Smith and do you remember Michelle? Well, Id love to hear from you. Do you think shes got what it takes to go all the way? Well, email me at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] And of course, Ill have the rest of the days news and Paul will have the forecast. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Babies I see that more than half of all babies will soon be born outside of marriage. More than half can you believe that? Britain is thought to be only six years away from the watershed moment when 50% of children will be born to unmarried mothers. The figures published by the Office for National Statistics show a record four out of ten babies were born to unmarried mothers in 2004. Were only six years away from the moment when more than 50% of babies will be born to single Mums! Pictures Dont forget, if youve got any pictures that you think I should see or stories that you think would make a good feature for the programme, then do drop me a line and give me the details. The usual address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] If youve got a problem for Leave it to Levy, then of course send me the details and dont forget to leave me a contact telephone number as well. Pass the word around that Im here to help and email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] And remind anyone, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter, to get signed up as soon as possible. Diana I cant remember how I got on to the subject of Bless This House, the TV sitcom from the 1970s with Sid James and Diana Coupland. I was saying I wasnt sure what Diana Coupland was doing these days. I just hadnt heard about her at all. Thanks to several people, who got in touch with me. First of all, Sylvia in North Somercoates says, I guess she is still with us as she is the Honorary President of the Shakespeare Hospice. She lives with her family in Warwickshire. I looked her up on the internet! So Sylvia, thank you very much indeed. And also, this one from Steve and he says, Diana Coupland has been in Eastenders, in the not too distant past, playing Auntie Maureen. She was also in a recent episode of Casualty. I hope that helps! So there you are. A very good actress, Diana Coupland and very much with us and was recently in Eastenders apparently. Of course, if I watched Eastenders, I would know that! Sleep Ive been boring you to death with the stories of not being able to sleep just recently. Well, actually its been going on for quite a few years. Thanks for all the emails with tips for sleep problems. I am, I can tell you, trying every single one. Just a quickie here from Lesley, she says, I usually sleep for three to four hours a night and that was the norm until about ten days ago when I finally gave in to Sudoko, the number problem puzzle. I go to bed about twenty minutes before I would normally retire and attack the puzzles. Im absolutely hopeless at anything to do with numbers and within five to ten minutes of picking this up, I am asleep! I was wondering, whether maybe a video player in the bedroom with some tapes of Paul doing the forecast would perhaps be a better answer! Lesley also says, Pauls shirt this evening really did look good. It blended in lovely with the living room walls, which are all similar to the red you have within the studio. Almost camouflage! d he was! Perhaps thats just wishful thinking that Lesley and you know that! Men In Their Fifties Now, we know what men in their fifties are like! Although, some are only just in their fifties! It used to be that reaching his half century made a man feel old, but not anymore according to the paper. Todays fifty something still has a twinkle in his eye and has a more enjoyable sex life than a man in his thirties or forties, a survey has revealed. In fact he even rates himself with the next generation claiming that satisfaction even equals to a twenty year old! Experts, who questioned more than a thousand volunteers, found that while their sex drive had reduced with age, the fifty pluses enjoy themselves more than men in their forties and a lot more than the least satisfied age group, which are men in their thirties! So there you are. Fifty somethings are more satisfied than men in their thirties and even more than men in their twenties! Tickets Thanks to everyone emailing in wanting tickets for our evening at the BBC next Tuesday for the Public Accountability Evening, where we discuss Radio Humberside and Look North and other BBC outlets like the website and Big Screen. Well, we look forward to seeing everyone there, whove got tickets for next Tuesday night, here at the BBC. Holiday Home Invasion I see that the number of Britons, who own a second home abroad has soared nearly 50% over the last five years. An all time record of nearly 260,000 people now own a foreign property, usually in a sunnier and cheaper country. I tell you one thing that I notice is, I speak to a number of taxi drivers in Hull and the number of them, who have got holiday homes abroad is quite high. Perhaps, theres quite a lot of money in taxi driving! Did I just say that? Well, if you have got a holiday home abroad, then your stories and your hints and advice, whether you think its a good thing or not, then they are gratefully received as usual. If you want to write in on any subject for the programme or for the Letter, then you know what to do - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, thats all from me for today. Enjoy your Wednesday afternoon and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for tonights Look North. Take care and thanks for reading. 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
