Hello Its Peter here and welcome to Fridays levy letter. I hope your day is going well. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC one at 6.30 for tonights Look North. On the programme tonight well have an exclusive report on the pioneering research that is looking at the effect free school meals have on childrens grades. Well also be talking to dancer Wayne Sleep about the massive dance event taking place in Hull and Lincoln over the weekend. It is part of an attempt to break the world record for the number of people dancing at the same time. If you want some more details visit www.bbc.co.uk/bigdanceclass. Well also bring you more details about an archaeological discovery found near Lincoln. Plus find out why one local beach has become a popular spot for ferrets!
Also Paul will be here with the detailed weather forecast for the weekend. Its going to be a very busy weekend as well, theres the biggest dance class being held at the weekend. If youre going to the Gemtec arena in Hull then Ill look forward to seeing you there on Saturday lunchtime. And also on Sunday, as I mentioned earlier in the week in the levy letter, it is the switching on of Mablethorpes summer illuminations. It will be Sunday evening on the seafront at Mablethorpe. Paul and I will be there to switch on the lights this year and if you can make it down I will look forward to seeing you there. Levy Letter Just a reminder if you know of someone, friend or family, who is not signed up to the levy letter and you think they would like one then just remind them go to the link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions through and they will get the first levy letter on Monday. And if over the weekend if you take any particularly good pictures of anything youve gone to or any of the events youve been to, there are loads of them this weekend, if you want to send your picture in it could be shown on the programme next week. The address to send them to is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Breakfast Cereals Im sure like me you think that eating some of the healthier breakfast cereals as advertised are good for us. And I certainly have some of a well known brand with bran in it in the mornings with milk thinking its the right thing to do. Well a survey just out shows that there are shocking levels of sugar, fat and salt added to breakfast cereals. Two leading brands were 55% sugar, some were saltier than a packet of crisps and some fattier than pork sausages, can you believe that! Even cereals that claim to be healthy are laced with sugar, fat and salt according to the study done by the consumer magazine Which. So if you are a cereal eater be warned some of them have huge amount of sugar and fat and are maybe not quite as healthy as you think they are. Water Now I am one of the people who have converted to a water meter over the recent years and I suppose when you live alone you are better off. But there is a survey out which shows the prices of things using the average cost of water. When you have a bath how much do you think it costs you? Well on average 15.2p if you have a meter and to flush the loo 1.5p, a normal shower 6.7p but if you have a power shower 15.2p the same cost as a bath. To use a washing machine costs 12.4p and the dishwasher is just 4.8p so good value for dishwasher if you have one. To water the garden with a hose using 540 litres of water costs 102.6p. So there we are, some of the average costs of using water if youve got a meter. Entertainment I mentioned this a couple of weeks back, but theres a programme I think youll enjoy starting this weekend. Its the history of entertainment really and its on BBC2 on Sunday night. Its called The Story of Light Entertainment and is the first of eight programmes. The first one looks at double acts, everybody from Laurel and Hardy in the beginning right up to the modern day with Ant and Dec and everything in between. We were talking about Cannon and Ball a few weeks ago and they are just about to play in Bridlington again and Im sure theyll be featured in the series as well. Its The Story of Light Entertainment narrated by Steven Fry; it looks like it will be a good programme and is on BBC 2 on Sunday night. Labels Id like to throw this one at you. Have you seen any labels on things that are pretty daft or meaningless? Because at the moment with all the political correctness things have to be just right. The thing that makes me laugh is when you get a coffee from a well known takeaway it warns you it might be hot. There are also the signs which I know are important if you have allergies that this may contain nuts. There was a wonderful sticker that was on the newsroom door for a long time which said warning this may contain nuts and invariably it did. But the latest one that Ive found is the advice label on a travel hairdryer and it said do not use while sleeping! If youve got any to add to that then send them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Class Now what class are you, working middle or upper? I dont really understand these things but they do break them down into segments. I assume most people think they know what class they are in. Well the stress of being working class reduces a persons lifespan by up to nine years according to experts. Being lower down the social pecking order causes the body to age much faster. Doctors believe the findings help to explain why working class people die younger than those in middle or upper classes. Well I suppose that that is not really rocket science, if youve got more money you have to do less work and you havent got to graft as hard. It is often the working class who have their sleeves rolled up to get stuck in. Anyway if you are working class, not great news. Again you might think thats a load of rubbish, your thoughts on that one, as ever drop me a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well thats all from me today, have a very good weekend, might see you in Mablethorpe. Look out for me if you are there. See you tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm for Look North as usual. 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
