Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays 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. Dont forget, if you ever want to contact me and comment on anything that we talk about in the Letter or anything that has been covered on the programme, then do drop me an email. And also, if youve got any particular problems that you think I might be able to tackle on Leave it to Levy, then get in touch. Well be having a Leave it to Levy story tonight on the programme. Tune in to find out if I can help! Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On tonight's programme, I'll have the latest on the new row over rubbish. Last week, we were talking to angry Scunthorpe residents, this week we're with the furious Hessle residents fuming over their rubbish collection. Ill have the full story tonight on the programme. I'll be investigating calls for the A1079 from Hull to York to be widened to cut the number of accidents on that route. More on that later. Also tonight, I'll be with the East Yorkshire farmers, who say they might be forced out of business as the sugar beet factory at York closes. They say they'll have to transport their sugar beet all the way to Norfolk for processing. Ill be listening to their story tonight. Plus we'll have the pictures as the brand new school arrives on the back of a lorry to replace old mobile classrooms in Kirton Lindsey. And, as an amateur production of the classic comedy, Fawlty Towers, opens in Scunthorpe, the actor playing Basil will be joining me in the studio for a chat. What a wonderful play. I wish everyone connected with that production all the very best. I know what an awful lot of work it takes to get the production to the stage. Paul will be with us for the forecast tonight. Hes had a couple of clear runs with his graphics in the last couple of days, so tune in tonight to see if he manages to get to the end of the forecast without them messing up! So, join me for Look North on BBC One at half past six. Letters Thanks for the emails on the subject of letters, packages and now large letters. What is the difference between a letter and a large letter? Well, its to be no thicker than five millimetres and weighing under one hundred grams and thats a letter. No thicker than twenty-five millimetres and weighing under seven hundred and fifty grams and that is actually a large letter. And an item thats bigger than a large letter and weighs more than seven hundred and fifty grams is actually a packet. So now you know. Youve been warned to expect some post office rage, according to the papers. And lots of fights at the post office counter as we all struggle to come to terms with these changes to posting letters and parcels. And that came into place just yesterday. Cosmos Thanks to all those people, who have written in to ask me how Im getting on with Noel Edmonds Cosmic Ordering. Im pleased to say that the book is finished and Ive put my orders in for what I want. And all Im waiting for now is my delivery. When it arrives, of course, I will let you know. Most people are asking me whether or not they should spend their money to buy it and Id say probably not in retrospect. It does seem to be more about Noel Edmonds life and is more an autobiography than anything else. But nevertheless, Ive read it and Ive tried it. I havent written on my hands like Noel Edmonds does, but I have put in my Cosmic Ordering, so well have to wait and see if the goods are delivered! The Three Rs Workers have such a poor grasp of the Three Rs that one in three bosses are forced to send their staff for remedial training, according to a report out today. The devastating indictment of the education system and reports on failings in the schooling system has left a generation without the basic skills to do their jobs. The most powerful business lobby group is warning that employers are routinely forced to pay for training courses for skills they should have learnt at school. It seems that many people havent got the absolute basics, who are working in offices. One in five employers said they frequently encountered illiteracy and innumeracy problems amongst non-graduate recruits and nearly half believe that school leavers these days have a worse grasp of English than they did five years ago. The use of text message language was also listed as a particular irritant. Some also believed that schools molly-coddled youngsters, who struggled when they faced with tougher work pla! ce environments. Id like to hear some of your views on that one. If you want to comment then email me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get in touch! Obese One in three adults will be obese by the year 2010, according to a Government report out this week. The alarming forecast by the Department of Health predicts that by 2010 more than fourteen million adults and children will be so dangerously fat that it will put their health at risk. This is actually one in three adults, who will be dangerously obese in just four years time. Thats absolutely staggering, isnt it? Experts blame the over-reliance on junk food and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle for the surge in obesity levels. The use of TV and computer games as electronic baby sitters are being held responsible for the increasing number of children, who are overweight. Britain is now the second fattest nation in the developed world, trailing behind America. But its hard to believe that in less than four years time, one in three adults will be dangerously obese. Thats according to figures just out today. Analogue Well, would you believe it? One of the main high street chains, who sell electrical goods, will no longer be selling analogue radio. They are the thing of the past. I never believed that I would see the day when that would happen. But ordinary radios, as such, will no longer be sold by a major high street chain and youll only be able to purchase the digital radios. Theyve come down in price a bit, but still theyre quite expensive, far more than the bog standard radio. Radios are actually going through a bit of a resurgence, because the high street chain that were talking about is selling more radios than it did in 1985. It actually sells thirty times more digital radios than it does analogue. So thats the reason theyve decided to get rid of the analogue radio. An end of an era. And those, who are a similar age to me, will remember the transistor radio. I have memories of taking it on the school bus, wedging it against the coach between the seat and the window to get a ! good reception. And there was a little ear piece to go with it as well. My little Binatone radio. Happy memories! Anyway, digital radio is the future and of course the sound on them is superb. Well, that's it from me for today. Thanks very much indeed for reading the Levy Letter. Join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. And if there's someone you know, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter, and you think they would like one, then point them in the direction of either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page and get them to sign up. 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