Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Thursdays 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. Ill have all the days news and tonight on the programme, I'll be investigating the claim that ferry staff in Hull are saying that they can't deal with the expected thousands of football fans travelling to Germany for the World Cup. Well be looking at whether these security fears are valid and whats being done about it. Ill have the full story later on the programme.
Also tonight, I'll be looking into why holes are appearing in the roads of a North Lincolnshire village. Apparently manhole covers are being sold for their scrap value - can you believe it? This is an incredible tale isnt it? Local residents are concerned for their safety and for the safety of their children and pets with these exposed holes in their roads. Ill have more on this later. One viewer has been in touch with Look North with a Leave it to Levy for me. Hes asking me to help model boat owners in East Park, who are fed up with pond weed in their lake. This weed is getting wrapped up in their boat engines and theyre fed up with it. Ill be seeing if I can help them out with this problem. And do you remember this story? One year ago, Julia Buckley from Lincoln was threatened with eviction because of her untidy garden. Well, it appears her untidy ways are a thing of the past and now she's hoping to win the council's Best Kept Garden award. Find out if she has! And of course, Paul will be here for the full forecast. X Factor Thanks for all the emails asking if I can get Lucy Benjamin on the programme. She was the winner of the talent show for celebrities, the X Factor. She seems to be hugely popular with readers of the Levy Letter and why not? The former Eastender says that she has no intention of launching an attack on the pop charts after winning, despite a flood of offers and thats quite refreshing news isnt it? Lucys thirty five by the way and is three months pregnant and is planning to concentrate all her efforts on being a great mum. Given that she is going to concentrate on her family and has no connection with our part of the world, or at least if she has, then I dont know about it, then I think theres little chance of getting her on the show. But isnt it a breath of fresh air that Lucy Benjamin, although being the winner of the X Factor, isnt going to launch a pop career? But congratulations to her for winning the celebrity X Factor and all the best to her family! Husky Voice Career driven women are lowering their voices to get ahead in the work place and gain acceptance in a society that is still male dominated, according to a study. Researchers claim that ambitious women are increasingly adopting the husky tones of stars such as Mariella Frostrup and also Kathleen Turner, so as to compete with their deep-voiced male counterparts. Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous as this? A comparison of womens voices between 1945 and 1993 reveals that they deepen significantly in the second half of the century. During that time the average pitch of women aged eighteen to twenty-five is lowered by twenty-three hertz. Thats an equivalent to a semi-tone drop. So there you are. Women are talking deeper so as to do better in the work place. Ive never heard so much drivel. Stories Dont forget, if youve got a story that you think would be interesting to cover on the programme and also if youve got a problem that you think we might be able to sort out, then get in touch. Just like the model boat owners in East Park for our Leave it to Levy tonight, send me an email and get in touch with me. And like those boat owners, you might be able to get some help from me with your problem. Get in touch and send me the details and dont forget to include a contact telephone number as well. Its the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] If youve been taking any good pictures recently on your digital cameras, then send them in to me. If youre proud of them, then Im sure youd love to see them on the Big Screen on the programme. So get in touch! Women After Fifty Well, theyre meant to be enjoying the prime of their lives, but women in their fifties are finding themselves battling a problem that many of them dont want to talk about. This is according to a new report just out. Three out of four in this age group believe their sex drive has dwindled with a third of them just making love once a month or less, according to this study. And theyre not happy about it either. Most claim that they would be delighted if their sex life went back to the way it was before they went through the menopause, but a third said that they would be far too embarrassed to ever discuss it even with their doctor. A survey also showed that their partners could be part of their problem. Around 40% of British women, the highest rate in the study of European countries, said their partners had lost their sexual desire as well. So there you are. Men in their fifties are losing their sexual desire as well, but no one wants to talk about it, even to their doctor. Mablethorpe Ill give you the full details next week, but theres a date for the diary, if youre in the Lincolnshire area and a reader of the Levy Letter, on a Sunday night. Its the switching on of the Mablethorpe lights. And if you fancy coming along, then Ill give you the full details with the time and the date next week. But Paul and I will be there to switch on the lights. Its the big social event of the year on the East coast, so Im told and we would like you to be there. So more details coming up next week in the Levy Letter. Well, that's it from me for today. Have a very good day and look after yourself. Join me tonight on BBC One at half past six! 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
