Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. All the days news. Well be covering the launch of a new race-hate hotline for victims of racial abuse. Stephen Lawrences mum Doreen will be at the launch. Youll remember Stephen was the victim of a racial attack in 1993. A Rolls Royce is being auctioned off today. It used to belong to a man from the Lincoln area who didnt pay his council tax. Well be looking at a pioneering scheme which takes care of the pets of domestic violence victims and how are you coping in the heat? Talking of which, Paul will have the forecast as usual.
Holidays So the holidays start for the kids of course at the end of the week. Wherever youre going or if youre staying at home I hope you have a great holiday. One in seven people plans to use credit to pay for their summer holiday while nearly 25%, a quarter admit they have no idea how much they spend while theyre away according to a new survey out. 46% of people plan to take a holiday this summer but 14% say they will put it on a credit card. So there we are, I dont suppose there are any great surprises there. Talking of money, just a quick one, and the latest home-owners figures, house prices have come out. Some people seeing their house go up by as much as £3,000 a week. I dont believe these figures but they are just staggering. It says home-owners have seen their house value jump by as much as £12,000 in the past four weeks alone. The biggest rise for five years. The average increase across the country in that time was £6,000. In some areas of the south east the increase ! was twice that. So the average price a house has gone up is £3,000 in a week in some places. That is just extraordinary isnt it? Anyway, contrary to what we read a few weeks back, house prices continue to rise. Church Just a quick note, dont forget if you want to drop me a line for any kind of mention in the Levy Letter, then please do. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] A note here from church warden Ian Bland, he says, Peter, St Andrews Church, a Grade I listed building which has featured in all the guide books and on the television, needs £90,000 for roof restoration. Weve been promised £30,000 from English Heritage with the proviso that we raise the balance or promise of the balance by the end of November. Weve launched a Sponsor a Tile Appeal. So there we are, good luck to everybody whos involved with St Andrews Church in Heckington and their Sponsor a Tile Appeal. Autobiography I was saying a few weeks back that Charlotte Church has written an autobiography at the age of 20. Wayne Rooney has also revealed all in his autobiography which is to come out shortly. And the weirdest thing about Wayne Rooney, just in case youve not read it, is he cant sleep without leaving the vacuum cleaner on. So he needs the vacuum cleaner on to get to sleep. If theres no vacuum cleaner around, if hes staying in a hotel then he turns on the hairdryer and leaves that on all night. Ill often switch on a fan or a hairdryer or the air conditioning, any sort of machine which makes a noise. Wayne says Ive ruined so many hairdryers by letting them burn out. Colleen hates it. You cant believe that can you? She wont let me turn on a vacuum or a fan, not when were together. There you are, Wayne Rooney the biggest fact from his autobiography is, unless hes got a vacuum cleaner on then he cant sleep. Losing Weight Eat less and exercise more has long been the mantra for shedding those extra pounds but now it seems all the hard work might have been in vain. Scientists say there are 10 other reasons why Britons just keep getting bigger. They claim that sleeping habits, central heating and even medicines and some pollutants can play a role in weight gain. Let me tell you what some of them are. Sleep - too little increases appetite. Medicine many modern medicines lead us to put on weight. Mothers age older women are more likely to have obese children. Choice of partner overweight people tend to pair with each other and have overweight children. Heating and air conditioning comfortable temperatures stop us burning off fat. Genes body shape may be partly inherited. Giving up smoking nicotine suppresses the appetite. Weight at birth underweight babies have a bigger risk of obesity. Getting older weight tends to increase with age. There we are, several reasons why it might not be your fault that you are fat so says an article out today. Friends If youre a fan of the TV programme Friends, the cast of the sitcom looks set to reunite in a deal worth an estimated £2 million each. Can you believe that? Jennifer Aniston has confirmed rumours of a one-off special in which shell play Rachel Green and theres a possibility all of them could all get together. The comedy, which ended in May 2004, told the story of six inseparable friends in Manhattan but if they get together it will be at a cost of £2 million each. Not bad if you can get the work! Letter If you know someone whos not signed up to the Levy Letter and you think theyd like one then point them in the direction of one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. Tell them to click on there, follow the instructions through and theyll get their first and daily Levy Letter from me every day, round about this time. If youve got something you think I should know about, a story you think we might be able to use on the programme or if youve got a problem you think we might be able to deal with on Leave it to Levy, then drop me a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Well thats about it from me for today. Enjoy these sizzling temperatures. If you think its hot today, apparently its going to be even hotter tomorrow, Wednesday. The details of course from Paul at 6.30pm. One final mention, this Sunday night is the switching on of the summer illuminations at Mablethorpe. Paul and I will be there all Sunday evening. If you can make it down or you fancy a drive out you can watch the lights being switched on this Sunday evening. Thats it from me, take care, see you tonight at 6.30pm. 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