Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. Its another lovely day today. Paul will have the forecast tonight at half past six.
And also tonight, I'll have reaction to the news that Hull KR will face St Helens in the Challenge Cup semi final. The team is doing so well recently and of course Look North will be following their successes. Good luck to the team for that one. The big event of the year for Lincolnshire is coming up the Lincolnshire Show! I'll be investigating the row that's seeing some food producers boycott the Lincolnshire Show this year. Ill have more on that one later. And, weve got the story of the latest technology hitting our schools. We'll be visiting a school in Lincolnshire, where the classroom register is a thing of the past. Pupils in this school start their day by scanning their fingerprints. Will it help make our children safer in schools? Well, find out tonight when Ill have the full story. I'll have a Leave It To Levy for you tonight where I'll meet disgruntled model boat owners in East Park and my special guest will be David Griffin. He plays the long suffering Emmet in Keeping Up Appearances and he's coming to Lincoln shortly. Plus find out why a local musician was so angry about his wheelie bin collection that he decided to write a song about it to the council. And for all you green fingered gardeners out there, weve got a very special competition. Tune in tonight at half past six, because weve got five pairs of tickets to give away for the BBC Gardeners World Live event on Friday 16 June. Its at the NEC arena in Birmingham, so only enter if you know you can get there under your own steam. If you win, youll get the chance to meet the presenters of Gardeners World and look at all the wonderful shows and gardens on display. Look north will be there as well, because were following a Lincolnshire gardener, whos at the show too. So tune in tonight, because Ill have the question for you to enter to win tickets for the BBC Gardeners World Live event! I hope you can join me then. Weather Man Not THE weather man, but Martyn Davies, who has been reading the weather for a long time on ITV. According to the paper, he might not be a George Clooney look-a-like, but hes got his female stalkers over the years. I must ask Paul to see if hes got any too! Martyn says that, people see you as a friend and write to you, but sometimes they go too far. One woman thought the animated rain symbol on the weather map was especially for her. She phoned the studio and said, I got your message, Im coming down! Then shed turn up and I had to be bungled out the back door by security guards to keep me safe! So there you are. Thats Martyn Davies Heartthrob! Well, certainly with one lady anyway. Im sure Pauls got his own stories to tell about his females admirers! Estate Agents Theyre all talking about this, because its Business Week this week in Hull. After a long time at the top, estate agents have had it so easy and now theyre feeling the pressure these days. One chap called Gary Thomas spent five months trying to get his flat sold by an estate agent, so in the end he decided to use the Internet to advertise his home. Within an hour, he had found a buyer. Better still he had escaped a hefty bill from the estate agents commission. After posting his home on a website, somebody had rung up within the hour, they came and looked at the flat and his flat was sold, saving him an awful lot of money in estate agents fees. I was talking to somebody today, who was telling me that estate agents in the future are really going to feel the pressure, as more and more websites spring up, encouraging us to do it ourselves and sell our homes ourselves. But the Internet appears to be the new way to sell property in the future and the estate agents are worried.! This particular story of advertising a flat and selling it within an hour for no extra cost is not going to help, one little bit! Dishwashers Well, the days when the end of meal times meant someone being lumbered with the washing up are disappearing. New figures show that sales of dishwasher detergents have now overtaken washing up liquid for the first time. It spells the end of rubber gloves and washing up liquid and dish cloths. Sales of dishwasher detergents grew by 36% over the last couple of years. It means that more people are buying dishwasher detergent than washing up liquid! That said not many of the people I know actually have dishwashers, although some have I suppose to be fair. Ive never actually used one and in the flat at Victoria Dock there isnt room for one anyway. But were a dishwasher generation now and tablets are ahead of washing up liquid sales. Pictures Dont forget if youve got a photograph that you think we should see for the Big Screen one night on Look North, then get in touch. If youve got a particular view that youve taken or if youve got a story that you think I should know about and cover on the programme, then let me know. Or if youve got a problem for Leave it to Levy, then do get in touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carrier Bags I suppose it had to happen and it has. The furniture retailer from Sweden is to charge customers for its plastic bags. From this week, the Swedish furniture company will charger shoppers 5p for every bag, rising to 10p in September. The firm gave away thirty-two million bags last year and its taking the step to try and improve the environment. The two year trials in Edinburgh lead to a 90% drop in carrier bag use when you actually had to pay for the carrier bags. Thats a 90% increase in the use of plastic bags! Thats staggering isnt it? I suppose its only a matter of time before more shops start to charge for carrier bags and this shop I think is the first. They believe that rolling out the scheme nationwide, coupled to switching to bio-degradable bags and lower prices for reusable carriers, will cut the total use at its fourteen stores by twenty million pounds next year! So there you are! Your views on having to pay for carrier bags, then let me know. Well, that's it from me for today. Dont forget if you want to drop me a line for the Levy Letter, if theres something youd like to comment on or if youve got a problem or an issue that you think I might be able to deal with, then get in touch. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join me tonight at half past six if you can. Take care, and enjoy the sunshine! 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