Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays 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 including the latest on the inquest into the death of Alison and Ryan Davies, who both died when they jumped from the Humber Bridge. We'll have a report on the implications of this case and what it will mean for the safety precautions set up on the footpath across the bridge.
Also tonight, I'll have a special report on the Lincolnshire sexual health clinic, which says they have seen a sharp rise in HIV positive patients being referred to them. We'll also have the story of a teenage mum from our area diagnosed with HIV. Ill have her story tonight. Plus find out why a skeleton of a woman found in Wetwang is making the national headlines today. We'll also be meeting the Driffield baker, who's won two gold medals for his organic bread. We'll have fantastic pictures of the nature reserve at Ingoldmells which is currently undertaking the annual tagging of their migratory birds. Plus find out why a Lincolnshire church is the star of the BBC's Restoration programme. Also tonight, well be getting a sneak peak at how eighty child actors are gearing up for a Children In Need production to be held at Hull New Theatre on the 8th and 9th September. Its the story of Dr Thomas Barnardo and how he set up his children's charity and all of the profits from the show will go to Children In Need. Well be with these youngsters, who have given up their summer holiday to rehearse this show called Carrots. Its at Hull New Theatre and its such a moving show with wonderful songs, so I hope youll watch tonight to find out more about it. Tickets are on sale from the Hull Box Office and the opening night is Friday 8th September. Paul will also have the forecast tonight. After a string of mistakes coming up in five days time, when he meant in five minutes, temperatures of 119 degrees on his weather map, then I hope hes going to get it right tonight. Hes blaming it on lack of coffee! Can that be true? Surely not, but tune in tonight to see if he can get through a forecast without making a mistake! Paul will actually be coming live from Scarborough for his forecast. So if youre in the resort, then see if you can get along and give him some encouragement. I think hell need it! All that at half past six. Thanks for all the emails on a variety of subjects. We were talking about speed limits and the fact that speed limits may be about to be reduced through small villages. Theres a note here from Pat Ferguson I was interested in your piece about speed limits and limiting through villages and near to schools, taking it down to twenty or thirty miles an hour. Well, we have a thirty mile an hour speed limit through our village of Preston and it doesnt work. You would be hard pressed to find any motorist adhering to the limit. Most of them travel from between forty and fifty miles an hour through the village, with some even travelling in excess of that. We were going to get a fixed speed camera along the road near to the garden centre, which has a forty mile limit on that stretch of road, but that was demoted to a speed warning sign that sometimes works, but most of the time doesnt register until a speed of forty-five plus. Our lives, Peter, are made a misery with speeding tr! affic. We cannot even have our bedroom window open in the summer, because of the noise of the speeding motorists. Thank you very much indeed for that Pat. And of course, if you want to email in over the weekend with any thoughts or comments, then theyre all gratefully received. Also, if theres anyone you know, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter, then get them to do so. Point them in the direction of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. Or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any thoughts or comments. Des I happened to mention yesterday that Countdown is moving south in a bid to keep Des Lynam. Hes said that his health is suffering, because he has to travel, would you believe, all the way from London to Leeds once a month for his job. And his job incidentally pays, according to the paper, £600,000 a year! Hes said that he is fed up with travelling between London and Yorkshire to make Countdown. Hes only been doing it a few months as well. Of course, Richard Whiteley would be absolutely horrified, because Richard was such a proud Yorkshireman and so proud of Countdown and so proud of Leeds and the whole team, who worked in Leeds. He would be absolutely horrified by this. I mentioned this yesterday and I must have had more emails on this than on anything else. Most of them have been unrepeatable too! Theyre all about Des Lynam threatening to quit if the show isnt made in the South of England. Most people feel very strongly about that, so thank you very much indeed for thos! e. Singletons Those of us, who are not married, will die younger than married couples, but bachelors are even more likely to go to an early grave than unmarried women. Its the loneliness or the social isolation, as the experts calls it that gets to them, according to the new study. The risky behaviour of singletons could not explain why they tended to die earlier. They said that unmarried people were only slightly more likely to smoke than married people and were less likely to drink alcohol regularly. Men, who never married, were more vulnerable than women. Those men, who decide not to get married and who are bachelors, are more likely to die earlier than anyone else. Well, hasnt that just cheered me up on this Friday lunchtime! Shoes Of course, women spend a lot of money on clothes, but theyve always had a particularly weakness for shoes. Thats something that us fellas dont really understand. But it emerged yesterday that it teeters on the edge of an obsession. One in ten, who took part in this survey, admitted to spending more than a thousand pounds a year on footwear! And a very determined one in four said that they would avoid paying their bills simply to get their toes in those must-have designer pair of shoes. Ten percent of women have spent more than a thousand pounds on shoes in the past twelve months. Can anyone relate to that? Has anyone spent a grand on shoes in the last year? Or will anyone admit to that? Twenty-five percent of women are more likely to buy shoes than pay their bills. Fifty percent of women owned more than thirty pairs of shoes! Do you own more than thirty pairs? Let me know about that one! Leave It To Levy Well have some more problems to tackle in Leave it to Levy. If youve got a problem or an issue that you think we might be able to deal with on the programme, then give me the details. Also give me a telephone number as well. Email me at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weekend I dont know what youre doing at the weekend. If youve got something planned or organised, then I hope it goes very well indeed. Sadly, the forecast, I dont think, is too brilliant, but Paul will have the details for us tonight. Today and tomorrow, as well as a couple of dates in September and October, will see the highest tides that were going to get in ten years. So for people, who live right on the edge of the water, then Im sure theyll be interested to hear more about that. If youre looking for something to do at the weekend, then its Swine Summer Fayre on Saturday 12 August. The gates open at 2pm and its a really good old fashioned fayre, which has been going on for twenty years! So weve got our fingers and toes crossed for good weather for you, but Swine Summer Fayre tomorrow will be a lovely event you can go to. All the very best to the organisers in Swine! So see you tonight at half past six and look out for your Levy Letter on Monday. 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
