Hello its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and youll be able to join me tonight BBC One at 6.30pm for all the days news. Well be looking at the proposed merger of Boston Grammar School with Boston High School. Parents arent happy and theyve formed an action group to fight the plans. Well have the latest on the Colin Inglis trial and well report on Operation Catamaran. This is Humberside Polices latest initiative to target burglars in Hull. The police have been out this morning in dawn raids and have arrested several people. Ill be talking to the police about the high number of burglaries and what theyre doing about them. Well kick off the Humber Bridge birthday celebrations with an exclusive report with the people who run the bridge on a daily basis and Ill be chatting to Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz fame about her memories of 1981 when they won Eurovision. Plus of course the weather from Lisa Gallagher and Lisa will! join me at the bridge tomorrow night.
Sport Relief If you saw Look North last night youll know were still looking for runners to do one mile on Saturday morning for Sport Relief. All the money raised goes to very good causes, some in our part of the world. Ill be there on Saturday morning if you can get down to Queens Gardens and all you need to do if youd like to run the mile is just register, go to www.bbc.co.uk/sportrelief and if you can make it down, I look forward to seeing you there with some of the celebs wholl be there as well. Saturday morning, Queens Gardens, get down about 10.30am. Beautiful People You might think it likely that being beautiful makes you the teachers pet and perhaps helps boost your grade. Researchers have found that good-looking students also fair better than their plainer counterparts in exams which take no account of physical appearance. Scientists say that attractive students achieve superior results in oral tests but even better results in written exams which are marked anonymously. This suggests their success is not just about favouritism. Attractive children are thought to be given more attention by their parents and teachers. This boosts their self esteem and may increase their confidence helping them to succeed later in life. Do you believe that or do you think its a load of twaddle? Well according to research, it is just out - beautiful people pass the exam test. Coronation Street The programme is doing very well at the moment. Its on extremely good form. The wonderful comedian Roy Hudd, I used to love the News Huddlines he did on the radio. Well Roy Hudd, hes 70 now by the way, plays the old chirpy undertaker Archie, Archie Shuttleworth in the Street. He says, I have a feeling that someone will be snuffing it very soon in the Street. Ive just been booked to film half a dozen episodes, so somethings up. There we are, the wonderful Roy Hudd booked for six appearances in Coronation Street. Hes the undertaker so we have been warned! Off work Doctors are reporting a dramatic increase in people being signed off work for a week or more because of stress and depression. I dont think theres any great surprise to see more and more people are taking time off work because they are fed up, theyre depressed or they say theyre stressed. One in three family doctors has noticed a sudden rise in those asking to be signed off for more than seven days. But far from blaming lazy workers, doctors claim that theyre genuinely stressed. 94% of GPs blame employers, claiming theyre not taking workers wellbeing seriously. A survey of doctors found that stress is the most likely cause of ill health with 76% of companies agreeing. So there we are, stress is the illness of the decade at the moment with many people taking time off work because of it. Pictures Dont forget, if youve got a digital picture of the region that you think youd like to be shown on the Big Screen then send it to me. It doesnt matter how unusual it is or it might be quite comical. Either way, send it to me either a hard copy in the post or email me one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and watch out for it on the programme. Sportswomen I was talking to Dame Kelly Holmes last night on the programme. She was in Hull yesterday to receive an honorary doctorate. What a lovely lady, fab to meet her, a real honour and even nicer when you get to meet somebody you hope is really nice and they were really nice. Talking of sportswomen, Paula Radcliffe has announced that shes pregnant and far from signalling the end of her running career the 32-year-old marathon world record holder said motherhood would make her more likely to carry on competing. Paula, who is 14 weeks pregnant, will be taking a break from top flight competition and has dropped out of the European Championships in Gothenburg which are being held next month. However, she plans to continue training and even take part in some low-key races whilst shes pregnant. So there we are, thats Paula Radcliffe expecting her first child. Wine Well the cost of a typical bottle of wine from an off-licence has fallen from £5.05 two years ago to £4.75 and the price of wine in supermarkets has gone up just 11p in two years to an average of £3.86 a bottle. Apparently its never been a better time for buying wine. The price of a bottle of wine actually gets better like the wine with age. So if youre a wine drinker, its better value now than it was a couple of years ago. So enjoy. Well thats about it for today. Just a reminder were on BBC One at 6.30pm. I hope youll be able to join me. Dont forget, Ill be talking about 1981 tonight, the year of course when the Humber Bridge was opened and on the programme tonight well have some facts and figures about the bridge as I mentioned earlier, and of course if you can make it down tomorrow night well see you there between 6.30pm and 7pm on the Hessle Foreshore. Have a very good afternoon. Enjoy the sunshine, Ill see you tonight at 6.30pm. Look out for your Levy Letter again tomorrow. 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
