Hello Peter here, welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight, BBC1 at 6.30. Ill have all the days news. Well be reporting on the villagers in Winterton near Scunthorpe who are taking the fight against crime into their own hands. Theyve bought their own CCTV cameras. Well have pictures of the demolition of one of Hulls ugliest buildings. Can you guess which one? And well meet the local man preparing for the World Memory Championships. He can memorise a pack of cards in THREE minutes! I have trouble remembering my phone number! And of course Paul will have the forecast. Just a reminder that for the next four weeks through the summer, weve got an extra Look North. Its just after the new One Show at 7.25pm. Thats the days news, a round-up of the local stories and Peter and Paul. That will be at 7.25pm tonight on BBC1.
Emails Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Lets just look at some of them which have come in since our last Levy Letter. This one from Abby I was just reading my Levy Letter and the second political correctness item caught my eye. If theyre worried about allegations of abuse, how about the fact that leaving the kids without sun cream could also be classed as abuse, letting kids getting sun burnt. Now this is what we were talking about yesterday about akela and those running the Cubs not putting sun cream on Cubs and Scouts but its okay if the kids are actually burnt because then theyre a patient. If it was my kid says Abby I would rather know they were covered in sun cream and safe than being at risk from cancer because theyre worried about being accused of abuse. There we are, political correctness. Another one here from Bob Lawe from the Methodist Church District Communications office in Hull. He says re your story about the Scouts and the application of s! un cream, I dont know whether youre aware but the same rule applies in schools. Both my wife and daughter have worked in schools where they were expressly banned from applying sun cream on any child, especially on a lunch time. The child was supposed to apply it themselves which when a child is disabled is nigh on impossible. The community wonders why there are less voluntary sector youth clubs or activities for youngsters. The case of legislation involved with child abuse and the risk that someone working in the voluntary sector can very easily be accused of child abuse has put hundreds off taking up these voluntary positions. We had to close a youth club recently which had over 70 youngsters between the ages of five and 13 when the existing leaders decided to retire after many years of dedicated work because no-one would take the risk under the legislation and take on the responsibility unless they were paid for the work. Thats very sad isnt it? And thanks very much ! Bob Lawe. Just a couple more emails here, Des Lynam is the nex! t one. D es not wanting to come to Yorkshire anymore once a month to do Countdown has prompted loads of emails. Just one final one on the subject from Tom Grove. On the subject of Des Lynam getting Countdown moved to London for his convenience. I think its a disgrace. He knew where the programme was made before he took the job on. Incidentally Im a fan of his but he should remember but for a tragedy he would not have the job at all, also he should remember no man is bigger that the whole and he should think of the other members of the team who will either have to up sticks and move or lose their jobs. Tom, thank you very much indeed. Dont forget if you want to email in on something youve read in the Levy Letter then do so to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bread Bread prices are to rise. The price of bread is to rise because of poor harvests and high energy bills so say the bakers. They say shoppers will soon have to pay between 2p and 4p more for a loaf. Britains leading miller is increasing its flour prices by an average of £29 per tonne from next month. Their nearest rival which owns nine mills is pushing its flour prices up by £28.75 per tonne from September 11th. So there we are, the price of bread is to rise. Millionaires Last night on the programme we were talking to a millionaire from Grimsby who won £7 million on the Lottery five years ago. Hes got a very posh house with his own lake. We saw him fishing in the lake last night. Hes got a swimming pool and tiled at the bottom of the swimming pool are the winning numbers that he won the Lottery with and even though hes got all that money he still does the Lottery! The number of millionaires in Britain, as I hinted last night is likely to hit 1.7 million by the year 2020 and more than half of them will be women. The four-fold increase will be caused by buoyant property and share prices when the value of the housing market is expected to rise by 71% over the next 15 years. If youve got any money, stick it into property because the chances are that will make you a millionaire. Women will get the extra benefit from all of this, eventually making up 53% of all millionaires. Their fortunes will be boosted by a longer life span and more generous! divorce settlements! according to a study. So there we are, a lot more millionaires in another 15 years time and most of them will be women. Beautiful people Well they had a list of natural beauties, who are they? Well Number 1 is Sophia Loren, Number 2 is George Clooney and Number 3 is the 20 year-old opera singer turned pop star Charlotte Church. They are the most beautiful people in the country according to this survey. Catherine Zeta Jones was fourth and also in there was Johnny Depp. Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow made it into the top ten as did TV presenter Gail Porter. So there we are, they are some of the most beautiful people. Charlotte Church has done amazingly well hasnt she? So has Sophia Loren. Shes actually 71 now and theyre pointing out theres a great similarity between Sophia Loren and Charlotte Church as both look very similar or at least they did when Sophia was Charlottes age. Emails Dont forget, if you want to drop me a line its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a couple of other quick things here. Last week the Stickney Ladies Group had a tour around Boston Fire Station and there is no pole, only the stairs for firemen to use. We were told that its due to health and safety rules. What a silly idea. It puts more seconds onto response times. Well as you know theyve just built a new fire station in Devon where there are no poles only stairs for firemen to go down because it is a health hazard going down the pole in case you hurt yourself. Presumably you cant hurt yourself running down the stairs to get to a fire engine! Well thats it from me today. Enjoy your Tuesday afternoon. Join me tonight BBC1 at 6.30pm and dont forget to drop me a line and dont forget if youve got any problems that you would like us to tackle on Leave it to Levy, give me the details and also give me your phone number as well. Take care, Peter. 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