Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your weekend was good. Its the start of another week of Look North, so I hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news, plus a Leave it to Levy tonight and Paul will have the forecast.
Also tonight, Ill be talking to Liam Mower, the Hull boy, whos starring in Billy Elliot. He had some wonderful news at the weekend. Hes now become the youngest person to ever win a Laurence Olivier award. He was up for Best Actor in a Musical and was up against stars like Ewen MacGregor for his role in Guys and Dolls. And he won! Wonderful news for Liam and his family. So congratulations to them. Ill be talking to Liam tonight. Ill also be talking to the producer of BBC3s Ferocious Mr Fixit, who secretly filmed in a well known car dealership in Scunthorpe. Lazy workers and bad language are revealed! So Im sure youre not going to want to miss that. Our Leave it to Levy tonight comes from a woman, who hasnt been sent electricity bills for three years! Can you believe that? Shes worried that she may be stuck with a huge bill! Im going to try and sort that out for her. And also, as a new four star hotel opens up in Hull, Ill be asking why we havent got more facilities in Hull when were hoping to be graded amongst the top ten cities. So all that, plus all the days news I hope you can join me on BBC1. Truancy Truancy is a subject, which weve talked about on the programme a lot over the last couple of years and I see, from a report out today, that more than half a million primary school children played truant last year. These are primary children!! And this is despite a billion pounds being spent on tackling poor attendance. And the number of secondary school children taking time off has risen by almost 250,000 in the past five years. The problem of truancy just seems to continue. No doubt thatll be one thing that well be talking about on the programme again sometime in the future. Voices It will come as little surprise to Barry White fans, that when women are in the mood for passion, they like a man with a deep voice. The study has shown that women find a slightly masculine voice irresistible at the time of the month when they are at their most fertile. Outside this fertile phase, most are likely to be attracted to a more feminine voice, probably because it signals a caring man, who is more likely to commit to a long term relationship. The findings could explain why some womens affections flit between rugged men with the gravely tones of men like George Clooney to clean living, high pitched types such as James Blunt. However, highly attractive women prefer deeper voiced men throughout their menstrual cycle according to this research. So there you are. The ideal man speaks very deeply for one week in the month and then for the other three weeks should talk like the high-pitched James Blunt. As long as hes not offended by that type voice. Thats according to! research that is out by the University of St Andrews, who obviously have nothing better to do. Texts Texting has become a craze and almost a mania in this country. Many mobile phone users send so many text messages now that they suffer from repetitive strain injury, according to a new survey. 10% of callers quizzed, admitted to sending up to one hundred texts a day, causing injuries to joints, nerves, wrists and thumbs, which can leave sufferers unable to work. The survey showed that many people use their first finger and thumb to text and are suffering from RSI! Many millions more are at risk from developing RSI, because texters usually hold their mobile in their fingers and press the tiny letter keys with their thumbs. Unlike a standard computer keyboard, this puts a lot of strain on the thumb. So there you are. If you text a lot, you could get RSI. Be warned! Skating I dont know about you, but Ive been absolutely mesmerised by the skating on the Dancing On Ice programme on the television these last few weeks and I havent missed a second of it on Saturday night, which just goes to show what an interesting and scintillating Saturday night I had! Sat there on my own, watching Skating on Ice! I was interested to see that last week, Hull Ice Arena had its busiest ever week. The ice rink at the Kingston Retail Park was sold out completely on Wednesday and Thursday. Staff there are putting it down to the popularity of the Dancing On Ice TV show and also the Winter Olympics. But on Saturday night, I watched the finalists go through to the last programme in the series next weekend. We had Stephan and his partner and also Gaynor Faye. Gaynor is a Yorkshire lass of course and she just stormed away on Saturday night. And also, there was forty-one year old Bonnie Langford, who is just extraordinary. Bonnie is a lovely person in real life. Ive int! erviewed her several times, but she is so tiny and what a stunning figure shes got! Shes through as well to the final. Those three will go through to the playoffs next Saturday night to find out who has won the title. Ive always been fascinated by the skating. Next Saturday, well see, for the first time ever since the big day of 1984, Torville and Dean doing their skating of Bolero routine next Saturday night. But if youve got any skating stories, or indeed if you want to talk about anything else, then drop me a line back a little later today [EMAIL PROTECTED] And dont forget, if youve got a problem or two, that you think we might be able to help out with on Leave it to Levy, then give me the details and also a contact telephone number as well. Also, if youve got any photos (weve got a funny photo coming up on the programme tonight, which somebody sent in to me), then drop me a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Save Our Miles I havent even mentioned this in the Levy Letter yet, but already there are emails coming in on the suggestion by Neil Kinnock that we should have kilometre signs rather than mile signs on our roads. Well, lots of people are not too happy about that suggestion. Of course, very many measurements have been lost to metric and only a few have been kept. Some that have been kept, well a pint of beer of course, an acre of land and a mile. Pounds and ounces, now can be used to sell loose goods as long as theyre still displayed in kilograms as well. Those that weve lost of course are a hundred weight and ton, hands and gallon as well. Well, do you want miles to go? There is a sign post down at Lands End, which points to John OGroats at 874 miles or 1,407 kilometres. Or pointing to New York, which is 3,147 miles or 5,065 kilometres! I think, though, that the one Ive seen at Lands End is the only one which has both measurements. Are you in favour of getting rid of our mile signs a! nd going to kilometres? Let me know what you think. All comments gratefully received. Homework If youve ever struggled to understand or help out with your childs or grandchilds homework, then this is a comforting story for us all. David Beckham, never one known for his dazzling intellect, has surprised even his greatest critics by his latest confession that he cant understand his six year old sons maths homework. The England captain made his remarks when he was doing an interview. He admitted that when Brooklyn asked for help with a school assignment recently, he was baffled and had to turn to his wife, Victoria for assistance. He says, Their homework is so hard these days, I sat down with Brooklyn the other day and I was like, Victoria, maybe you should do the homework tonight. Its totally different to what I was teached! Thats what he said. Not me! Well, thats all from me this Monday lunchtime. And dont forget, if theres someone you know, who would like a Levy Letter, but is not signed up at the moment, then get them to go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, tell them to click on Levy Letter and sign up. And still, last week, even more people have joined the Levy Letter over the last seven days. If you are a new subscriber, then I appreciate that, so thank you very much indeed! Let me know who you are and where you are and a little bit about yourself by dropping me a line when youve got a quiet moment. Have a very good Monday afternoon and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 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