Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me for Tuesdays Look North, tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm as usual. Lisa will have the forecast and Ill have the days news.
Tonight on Look North, I'll have exclusive news on plans to downgrade Grantham hospital. I'll be looking at staff and patients fears over the threats to jobs and to the quality of services at a local hospital. And join me tonight to find out why pensioners in Snaith are up in arms over plans to scrap their weekly get-togethers. They think their community spirit will suffer. I'll have more on that later. Plus I'll be meeting a Lincolnshire man with a passion for Meccano. His hobby from being a young boy has followed him into adulthood. He'll be telling me why he's so passionate for all things Meccano. And a great story here of a fifteen year old schoolgirl, who is representing her country in a top competition. She's off to Barcelona for the World Latin Dance championships. I hope you can join me tonight to find out more about all of her success. And John Inverdale, the BBC Radio Lincolnshire presenter and ex-Grandstand host will be joining me tonight. He'll be telling me why he was running across the Humber Bridge this morning and how we can all get involved in Sport Relief. It's such a worthy cause, I hope you can join me then to find out more. Are you a Bon Jovi fan? Well, we gave away tickets a few weeks back to go see them in concert. Well, we've got an even better prize for you tonight. Do you want to see Bon Jovi when they come to Hull in June and would you like to get up close to the band when they're performing? Well, tune in tonight to find out how you could win tickets. All that tonight on BBC One at six thirty. Emails Thanks very much indeed for all the emails on a variety of subjects responding to some of the things Id put in the Levy Letter. Every email of course is read. And just a reminder as well that for every email thats now read out on the television on BBC One for Look North, the funny ones with Paul, well for every one thats read out on TV, send us your address with it and there will be a Peter and Paul fridge magnet for you. So, when you email or write in with an email for me and Paul, then dont forget to include your address and well pop a fridge magnet in the post to you. You can get me any time about anything at all, when you email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keeping Up With The Jones I see that a record number of middle class families in this country are swamped by debt after chasing the dream of a designer lifestyle. We of course always look for the things we cant have. I was looking at the weekend at bathroom suites and looking at some of the swish bathrooms and how much they cost now. Long gone are the days when you can buy a three piece suite from a well known DIY shop for £200! Many people take on massive loans and credit card debts to fund luxury homes, four wheel drive cars and also expensive holidays. For some, the cost of keeping up with the Jones has even gone as far as to borrow money to put their children into private schools. Well, these people now are very much in debt. Records numbers are in debt! Weather I was talking to Lisa Gallagher last night on the programme about this weather were having. Yesterday was day five of continuous rain, certainly in Hull anyway. Its just been a disaster, when you think that were only one month away from it being summer. Were being lashed by rain every day and its not just around here, but around the rest of the country as well. At least itll mean, hopefully, that there wont be any standpipes in Hull. Chelsea Flower Show opens today in West London and its threatening to be a wash out. Yesterday the grounds were covered by an inch of water. So I dont know what has actually gone wrong. But well try and find out with the forecast tonight and see if its going to get any better with the weekend ahead. Of course its bank holiday weekend and well be getting an extra day off! Banana Well, its a favourite of Alexander the Great and its always lived in the shadow of apples and oranges and things like that, but we now buy more bananas than any other fruit. Unfortunately, theres a story around about a new virus and a disease that could wipe out bananas from everywhere. But the banana has become Britains and indeed the worlds favourite fruit. Although technically the banana is actually a berry, which I didnt know. We spend more on bananas than any other fruit and only one in twenty British households does not buy bananas every week. Bananas are cheap, healthy, easy to peel, sweet meaning that children will eat them and last for ages and conveniently turn black so you know that theyve gone off. So there you are. Ive only just started eating bananas regularly when I started on Gillians diet and since then Ive been buying them all the time from the supermarkets. So I actually fit in to those statistics. Older Mums I was talking about the number of older women in their forties, who are having babies. Its the highest ever and even higher last year than the year before. As soon as Id written that, then I read about Bridget Jones creator, Helen Fielding. Shes always denied that her characters life was based on her own, but now in a strange parallel, both Bridget Jones and Helen Fielding are pregnant. The multimillionaire writer is expecting her second child at the age of forty-eight! And what you may not know is that Helen was born in Yorkshire. I also believe that she lives in Last Of The Summer Wine country around the Holmfirth area. Anyway, we wish Helen well and well follow the story. I hope it works out ok for her. Well, that's it from me for today. I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. You can drop me a line any time, about anything to do with the programme, or if youve got a problem that you think I might be able to help with on Leave it to Levy, then get in touch. Let me know the details and include a contact telephone number to the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a good day, 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
