Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you had a good weekend. I hope youll be able to join me tonight for Look North on BBC One at 6.30pm for all the days news and Paul will have the forecast.
Tonight on the programme, I'll be getting the full reaction to Hull KR's incredible win over Warrington in the Challenge Cup quarter final. It was a great weekend for sports fans, so Ill have their reaction tonight. After the death of Lincolnshire horse rider, Heather Bell, her relatives and husband have been campaigning for many years now for something to be done to stop low flying aircraft in the area. Well, I'll be getting the reaction to the MOD's latest decision to supply horse riders in Lincolnshire with high visibility vests. They hope this will help prevent more deaths amongst horse riders from low flying aircraft. Ill have more on that later. And is this the latest craze going around our schools, or is this just another form of the bullying thats happened for centuries amongst our children? Well, Ill be speaking to the head teacher of a school in Lincolnshire, who has excluded school pupils after a 'happy slapping' incident. Ill have the full story later. And, this is an incredible story! We've got an exclusive report as we follow the Hull researchers, who have travelled to America to take DNA samples from a two hundred year old African slave. Weve been given fabulous access to their work, so I hope you can join me for more on that one later. My special guest tonight is Rachel Elnaugh - she's a top class business woman from the BBC Two programme, Dragon's Den and she's coming to Hull to give local businesses the benefit of her experience in Hulls Business Week. Shes a fiery woman in Dragons Den. Lets see if shes like that in real life! I hope you can join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. Siesta Well, it was a lovely weekend and Im sure that many of us had a bit of a sit-around in the sunshine on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, but for many of us an afternoon siesta seems like the sort of luxury that only places like the Mediterranean countries can enjoy. But now, scientists have discovered that a post-lunch forty winks could come naturally to all of us. They say that the reason why all of us feel drowsy after eating a large meal is due to the high levels of glucose in our brains and is not necessarily connected to living in a hot climate. The brain cells, or neurons, which keep us alert, get switched off when we eat. So if youre feeling sleepy and dozy in the afternoon, then its because youve just had your lunch and its perfectly natural. And of course, its not just because you want to be in the Mediterranean. So siestas are the way forward. But obviously, theyre not really a good thing if youre driving a bus or a taxi, I suppose. World Cup Yes, its coming ever closer. Those of us, who are looking forward to the World Cup, then enjoy! Some of us though are dreading the wall to wall coverage of the football on the television and if you are, then its getting even worse, because I see now from reading that the BBC is going to put World Cup matches live over the Internet as well. This is prompting fears that millions of workers in the afternoon, if theyre not asleep having a siesta, will be switching on and watching the best part of a months football on their computer screens rather than doing work. The technological move by the good old Beeb is to show more than fifty hours of live football from Germany, including all of Englands knock-out games. And all of these you can see on your computer. Some employers are worried that their work force will dwindle as their employees spend their time watching the BBC websites coverage of the World Cup football matches. Well, what do you think? Are you looking forward to! the football or are you dreading it? Let me know [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Drink At Work I got onto the subject of work today, so Ill continue the theme! But one in six employees, according to new research, is turning up for work under the influence of drink. Thats incredible isnt it? One in six of people at work! And the problem is expected to get worse during the World Cup. Two million have taken a day off sick in the past six months due to a hangover, according to a survey of full-time employees. 1.4 million people plan to hit the pubs in working hours to watch the football from Germany in the next month. The poll has been commissioned to examine the effects of the twenty-four hour drinking legislation. So there you are. A staggering one in six people have turned up to work all the worse for a drink in the last year. Lost Luggage Again, this is something that has never happened to me. Mind you thats probably because I never go anywhere on holiday! So I suppose if you dont go anywhere, then you cant lose your luggage can you? But five passengers on every British Airways flight could expect to lose their luggage according to latest figures. With the hectic summer schedules about to begin, the problem is bound to increase. The statistic for the years first quarter was revealed by the Association of European Airlines. Other major carriers were even worse. On average, seven passengers on a typical Lufthansa or Iberia flight lost their suitcases. Its hard to believe that isnt it? Those figures seem really high to me. So have you ever lost your luggage? Do these figures seem right to you? Get in touch in the normal way to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, that's it from me for today. Thanks very much indeed for reading the Levy Letter. Join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. 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