Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and a few surprises tonight. Paul will have the weather forecast at half past six I hope you can join me then.
Tonight, Ill be looking at a row thats breaking out between a North Lincolnshire school girl and a local bus company. A diabetic girl was refused permission to get off a school bus to buy chocolate, despite the fact her blood sugar levels were dropping to dangerous levels. Ill be looking at this in more detail tonight on the programme and asking if more supervision is required on school buses. And of course, Ill be asking for your views on this tonight. Ill also be talking to the Shadow Home Secretary, the MP David Davis on why hes jumping off the Humber Bridge! Its all part of a charity abseil and Ill be finding out how hell cope with this new and rather different challenge! The ancient Egyptians are coming to Hull! Well have exclusive access to Hull Museums new collection of mummies! And my special guest tonight is the star of the new BBC1 hit show, Just The Two Of Us. Hes pairing up with Penny Smith and they have both wowed audiences with their performances. The jazz legend Curtis Stigers will be joining me tonight. And tune in, because Ill be giving away tickets to go see Curtis in concert in Skegness, tonight on the programme. I hope you can join me for Look North. Titanic I was mentioning earlier in the week that I was looking forward to a programme, which was on Wednesday night about the Titanic and the fact that had it hit the iceberg head on, the Titanic wouldnt have sunk and all those lives wouldnt have been lost. I had read about it in the paper and then come Wednesday night, I couldnt find it in the programme schedules anywhere, or on the television. I mention this purely and simply, because I was desperate to see it. If anyone happened to have taped the programme and has got the programme on tape that I could borrow, then I would be most grateful. Please get in touch with me! Of course, if youve got any ideas for the programme, and you want to drop me a line over the weekend, then its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Levy Letter And a reminder that if, over the weekend, youre talking to anyone, and theyre not receiving the Levy Letter and they would like one, then get them to go to either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions through and they will get their daily free Levy Letter, as you well know, from Monday. Dogs One of the most emotive issues we do on the programme is anything to do with animals, but particularly anything to do with dogs. And when we started to talk about dog mess on pavements a few weeks back, Ive never seen so many emails on one subject in my life. So, I was interested to read that not only have you got to be a dog lover, but you need to be loaded too as it costs quite a lot of money - £22,000 to look after your dog for life! The cost of owning a dog, over its lifetime, is now an average £22,000, a survey has revealed. Thats almost as much as the average national salary and around the price of a new Mercedes C class saloon. The total outlay for vets, food, kennels and other expenses varies of course according to breed. Owning a Jack Russell for instance may rack up £18,000 over its lifetime, compared with, wait for this, for a Great Dane at £33,000! So when you put that into context against the average salary, which I think is about £14,000, then its not a chea! p hobby looking after your dog. Is it worth it? Im sure I know your answer to that one! Water Talking of money, of course many people, up to now, havent had water meters, but that looks set to change, as youve probably read in the paper. Not that we want to get into the news agenda of the thing, because we cant do that, but we can talk generally. When I got a water meter, living on my own, I actually found that the bills came down. But theyve got a tariff now in the paper, of how much water is used every time on everyday activities, which makes interesting reading. Flushing the lavatory, for example, uses up to two to three gallons of water. The cost of that is between two and three pence. Taking a bath well thats eighteen to thirty-three gallons, depending on who you are, and between fifteen and twenty-eight pence a go is what it costs. A shower is between six and eight pence. A washing machine, per wash, that will use between eleven and twenty-nine gallons, varying between nine and twenty-four pence. The top of the list, by the way, is the hose, or the sprin! kler. Using it for half an hour on the lawn, which is not a particularly long time, will cost up to £1.49! So there you are. Your views on that one of course, are gratefully received at the usual address. Competition Dont forget weve got a painting competition on at the moment. I want you to paint the Humber Bridge. The weather is getting a little bit better. In fact, its a lovely day today. If you think you can get out and paint or draw the Humber Bridge, then you could be in line for a prize as part of our competition. It doesnt have to be a traditional water colour, or oil painting, it could be as abstract as you like! Dont send the original to us, just get a picture taken of it and send that in. And listen out for the results. The address to send it to is BBC Look North Painting Competition, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. I look forward to seeing the results! Get creative! Princes Quay This morning, I was at Princes Quay for an event and quite a few people turned up, so thank you very much indeed to those of you, who came along. It was great to meet you. And if youve got something planned for this weekend, then I hope it goes very well indeed. Also, if youre planning an event and you want some publicity for it, then please get in touch with me. Send me the details of the event, where and when it is and Ill see if I can give you some publicity in the Levy Letter. The usual address to write to is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a particularly good weekend. I will see you tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Thanks for reading and look out for your Levy Letter on Monday. Take care 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
