Hello, Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you can join me tonight BBC One at 6.30pm for all the days news. Well have news that six police officers have resigned after verbally insulting a woman on a train. With two weeks to go until the end of the school term for some schools, well be investigating how education leaders are already stripping furniture from schools due for demolition and Ill be chatting to a young man from Grimsby whos turned his life around thanks to 1950s style army training. And well have the forecast from Lisa Gallagher as usual as His Lordship is still away on his little break at home tending to his garden and hell be back on Monday. Dont forget this Friday night ahead of the big birthday celebrations for the Humber Bridge well be broadcasting live from the Hessle Foreshore. If you can make it down to see the programme live and join me for a chat then get down to the Hessle Foreshore from 6! .15pm on Friday evening.
Pirates The second Pirates of the Caribbean movie has broken box office records to become the most profitable opening day in the history of films ever. Not just here, but in the United States which is some record. The film, which stars Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp, took $30 million in the United States alone on Friday. $30 million on one day in the States. Pirates of the Caribbean is just out, I must admit I havent seen it its not my kind of film really but you might like to let me know what you think. Sat Nat Well of all the things which are being stolen at the moment sat nav is the must-have for thieves in this country. The most popular gadget for modern motorists to buy is the sat nav; its also at the centre of an escalating crime wave. Can you believe this? Thefts of the satellite navigation systems which direct drivers to their destinations (or not as the case may be!) have risen in the last year by 2000%. A police chief said that leaving a sat nav in your car is like leaving £300 on your dashboard. I was talking the other day to a taxi driver who was driving me through Hull and he said every night before he goes to bed he takes the sat nav off and takes it into the house. Not only that, but the little suction sticker that is left on the windscreen, he even wipes that off because thats a giveaway that hes got sat nav and the chances are its going to be in the glove compartment so if you have sat nav, pack it away. The worse hit area by the way is Sheffield which has seen! a 20-fold increase in thefts. So there you are, some words of wisdom for sat nav owners. Charlotte Church I must admit a few years ago I wasnt bothered by Charlotte Church but just recently Ive been fascinated to read shes only 20 and shes worth £6.5 million. What a grounded and level-headed girl. Shes got her feet well and truly on the ground. She talks and acts like somebody a lot older than her years. She sends herself up and she knows shes a little bit chubby and is quite happy about that and shes going out with this chap Gavin, I think hes called, some good looking young thing and she seems desperately happy with him. They call them apparently Slosh and Pecs, reference to the fact that she enjoys a drink and his physique. But she says shes fed up with the celebrity lifestyle and now she wants to settle down with Gavin Henson and just live an ordinary life. No-one will believe this but she says since Ive turned 20 Ive really started to settle down. Its a lot to do with him; Ive never felt so settled with anyone in my life. Shed rather be out with her mates fo! r a drink or down the chip shop than going off to celebrity parties. A really down to earth girl. The other thing I like about her is the fact that shes always championed Cardiff and sung her home roots. So good girl, thats Charlotte Church. Binge Drinking Teenage girls from middle class homes are more likely to binge drink more often than those from poorer communities according to new research. Experts say that children with both parents out at work have more money and more time without parental supervision to experiment with alcohol. Although boys start drinking at an earlier age, girls consume alcohol more frequently. By the time theyre 14 their consumption out strips that of the opposite sex. So there we are, new figures out, kids from middle class families tend to start drinking alcohol younger and more of it. Levy Letter Dont forget, if theres someone you know thats not signed up for a Levy Letter and you think theyd like one, then all youve got to do is spread the word. Point them in the direction of the address at the bottom of the page and ask them to sign up, click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions and theyll get their first daily free Levy Letter from tomorrow. And dont forget, if youve got a problem or an issue that you think we might be able to tackle on the programme in Leave it to Levy then drop me a line. Give me the details and also a contact telephone number as well. You can get me any time you like directly on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coffee Well for many a strong cup of coffee is the only way to start the day. I must admit if Ive gone through the morning without drinking a cup of coffee I start to get a headache, a sure-fire sign that I havent had my caffeine but the caffeine in a brew may do more than make the tired and overworked feel more alert it can also prevent memory loss in old age according to scientists. The University of Birmingham said that some people cant get started without a cup of coffee, others need a shot of Red Bull to keep going. Caffeine is by far the most widely used psychoactive drug there is. Research has shown it increases alertness, it speeds up information processing. Caffeine also alters the brains electrical activity by boosting gamma rhythms which are associated with memory and learning. So there we are, I only put that in so that if you drink too much coffee if may allay some of your fears. Well, that's it from me for today, thank you very much for reading the Letter and enjoy your afternoon. Join me tonight BBC One at 6.30pm. Bye for now. 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
