Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter and the start of another week. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me on BBC1 at 6.30pm for Look North tonight and every night this week. I hope your weekend was good. Whatever you got up to then I hope it was good.
And just a reminder that this week is an extremely busy week for us. Weve got some big names coming in for the programme and also Thursday is the next date for our Sofa Tour. Paul and I will be in Princes Quay between 10.30am and 12.30pm on Thursday morning. Theres no broadcasting. Theres just a sofa and a chance to have a chat. So if you want to spread the word, and if you want to come down and say hello, then the more the merrier. Its 10.30 in the morning until 12.30pm in Princes Quay. Paul and I will be there. If you can get down then I look forward to seeing you. I hope that youre going to be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news. Paul will have the forecast and also tonight, the comedienne, Jo Brand, will be joining us on the programme ahead of her tour in our region. And the BBC weatherman, Alex Deakin will be going head to head with Paul Hudson. Alex is a local boy from North Ferriby and his parents, I believe, are still living there and Alex is joining me on the sofa tonight. Ill also be looking at plans in Hull to build a tunnel under one of the major roads through the city and of course, Ill have an update from the Police on the death of the thirteen year old girl from Bransholme. Thats tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Guests Thanks for all the emails suggesting guests for the programme and also ideas for stories for the programme. Theres been some great emails in. If theres someone youd like to see on or if theres a story that you think we should be covering that everyones talking about, then drop me a line straight away to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Val Doonican I had an email this week from somebody asking if Val Doonican was still with us and more importantly if we could get him on the show. I didnt know, but I did a little bit of research. Val Doonican, for the younger readers of the Levy Letter, is an Irish singer, who for many years was on TV on a Saturday night with his own show, The Val Doonican Show. His legendary trademark was the armchair, a rocking chair. He was one of the few people, who could be trusted with a live TV show, because he was so cool that live TV didnt faze him. Unlike, most people television has to be recorded, because its too scary to do live, but he was superb. I found a little quote here from him that says, Young people have never heard of me. With a name like mine, most of them think that I am a woman! Well, Val Doonican was a pin up for the ladies of the 1960s and was also known for his very dodgy sweaters that he used to wear. Apparently, he has no plans to retire, but says that, when I come on! stage these days the chair gets more applause than I do! Anyway, thats Val Doonican. And if youre wondering, because I didnt know either, he is seventy-nine now! Lincoln At the weekend I did some shopping in Lincoln and enjoyed a trip round with the tours that theyre doing around Lincoln Cathedral. And its well worth it. What a fabulous building it is. And inside there is an exhibition on at the moment of photographs of when they were actually filming the Da Vinci Code. There are also some obelisks and tombs that were props in the film. Theyre probably about half my height again and they look as if theyre made of granite or stone, but they are actually plastic and theyve left some of those props there and they are on display at the moment. Its fascinating stuff, but if you havent been, then its well worth it. The building itself is just astonishing. I was amazed to read that it costs a million pounds a year just for the upkeep of the cathedral. Although, if you think about it, I can understand why it does. Its a lovely building and if you havent been then its well worth a visit. Gazumping I see that Britain is in the Gazumping capital of Europe with millions of house hunters losing their dream homes. Property experts last night warned that the situation is going to get worse as the demand for homes outstrips supply. Where do all these people keep coming from? I know they say that less people are getting married these days, but its just extraordinary. Gazumping happens, when after accepting an offer from one buyer, the seller decides to go with a new offer, a higher offer. Well, in the UK, 3.3 million buyers get gazumped every year as they wait to get on or move up the property ladder. The true extent of the scandal was revealed in a Europe wide study, which has just been published. Britain is actually one of the highest rating countries where owners sales fall through. Its second only to Italy, but gazumping itself is actually more rife here than anywhere else. In places like Germany, its virtually non-existent. Well, have you been gazumped? Are you a vi! ctim of gazumping or have you gazumped somebody else? Well, let me know to the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Burglars You might have seen this in the papers. Its had quite a lot of coverage, but house holders, who find strange marks scrawled on their property are being urged not to dismiss them as mere graffiti, for burglars are using symbols like these to identify vulnerable residents, and identify those, who are rich pickings and so on. There are different diagrams apparently for different goings on. Ill give you a few examples. A chalk cross basically means a good bet and a likely crime target. Three or four circles, full circles, mean rich pickings - symbols that owners are wealthy. A Y in a square shows that this house is an easy target when the occupier is a vulnerable female. Thats quite interesting isnt it? And a house with a large circle with a cross through it means its a house with nothing worth stealing from it! I think thats the symbol, which would probably appear outside my house on Victoria Dock if Im honest! Symbols left by burglars! Wedding And just finally, well you can buy just about anything at the supermarket these days. I was saying not long ago that one well-known supermarket is selling wedding dresses. Well, Britains two biggest supermarkets are engaged in a new bout of store wars, vying to woe couples preparing to tie the knot. One well-known supermarket and their rival have moved into the wedding business, offering rings, confetti and dresses at a fraction of their normal prices. One of them is offering a solitaire engagement ring at £1297! Thats a fifth of the £6000 tag on similar rings being sold in Mayfair. Theyre also offering a three quarter carat diamond ring for £750, compared with the high street price of £1250. Also, a wedding guest book for £6.97 and Cru Champagne at £14.97 a bottle and so it goes on. There are even gowns for £60, bridesmaid dress for £17! So maybe, its not quite as expensive to get married after all these days, if you go to the supermarket. Well, thats it from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 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
