Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays 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 and Paul will have the forecast. Also on the programme, we'll have the latest on the flooding in Goole and well be live in the town after the heavy storms last night. And as Lincolnshire prepares to commemorate the crews of bomber command, we'll find out what it was like on board a Lancaster bomber. More on that later.
Also tonight, we'll meet the identical twin motorcyclists, as they prepare for racing at Cadwell this weekend. Plus we'll be with the single mum from Lincolnshire, who's gone back to school and will have received her GCSE results today. And I'll be chatting to Theatre Director, Barrie Rutter from Hessle, about his new play, which opens this week. All that on the programme tonight. And just a reminder that tomorrow the programme will be coming live from the seaside. Well be on the beach at Chapel St Leonards. If you can make it there on Friday night, then get there round about six oclock and join us for an hour on the beach. On the programme tonight with Pauls forecast, well find out just how wet or dry were going to be. Although, I dont think its going to be that bad hopefully. Fingers crossed for good weather for us! So well be live from Chapel St Leonards on the beach on Friday night between six thirty and seven oclock. Thank you very much indeed for all the emails on a variety of subjects. On the subject of post, Ive had so much response. I could actually fill the whole letter with your comments on the new post pricing. But just one here from Wendy Nichols Ive just posted a small package today. Under the new postal rate, it cost me £1.27 by first class post. But last week, if Id posted the same small package, it would have cost me just 68p. Thats at first class as well. This new pricing rate is just a con to put up the cost of postage. It seems like a back door way for price increases by the post office. They do not deserve people to send mail by them. This is a disgusting price rise for such a small packet. Anyway, Peter, what was wrong with the old system? It worked quite well for a long while and everyone knew what the cost was. Now people will be wary as to what size of package theyre sending, because of the awful price rise in postage. Wendy thank you very much indeed. And ! the best story that somebody in the Open Centre told me about was an envelope they had to post, which they do every week. Its fairly light, but a bit large in inches and if he cut it into two and sent two pieces, rather than one big package, then it would be cheaper than if he sent it as one large package. Even though the post office then has to carry two bits of post. He didnt think it made any sense at all. Thank you for your views on post and Im sure youll keep them coming in. Dating Research into the preferences of singletons has found that the amount of money that a potential date earns is important to 84% of men, compared to just 60% of women. So how much a woman earns is very important to a man, but is not important to a woman. The survey also found that 63% of men would be happy to stay at home and relax whilst their partners went out to work. Just 63%? I thought that would be a lot higher. But unfortunately for those British men, who want to put their feet up, only 6% of women said they were prepared to support both themselves and their partner. Despite their desire to find a rich woman, 82% of men said they would splash the cash around on a date to impress the opposite sex. Thats compared to just 18% of women, who would do the same. And while 87% of people questioned in the survey said that they would never lie about their salary to impress, 74% believed that other people exaggerated their earnings to new dates. Its funny this obsession in this ! country with other peoples money. But those percentages are quite staggering arent they? 84% of men are bothered about how much a woman earns, but women really arent that bothered about what a man earns. Only 16% said that they were bothered about how much the man earns. Emails Dont forget, if youve got a picture that you think Id like to see or a story that you think we could investigate, then give me the details. Send it in to me and of course, itll come straight to me direct, no one else will see it, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if youve got a problem for Leave it to Levy, then send me the details and include a contact telephone number as well, because that will be useful for us if we need to get in touch with you. Well, someone has got in touch with me with a little problem! Can you help? Let me know. This is rather an usual one and I dont want any jokes about being a matchmaker! But someone is looking for a husband for their pet dog. Can you believe this? They have a yellow Labrador and apparently this is a very pampered pooch and theyre very fussy about the type of dog they find. So do you have a gentleman dog, a yellow Labrador, who is pampered too? Well, perhaps they could be a perfect match and have a lovely litter of pampered puppies. So if you can help, get in touch! Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and of course let me have your telephone number as well! I cant believe Im matchmaking for two dogs!! I started the week by talking about coffee and I read now that a cup of coffee is about to become an expensive treat. A sharp rise in the cost of coffee beans is now trading at a seven year high and that means coffee could now soar by 5p a jar. Shoppers were warned about this last night. The actual sale of beans and their prices has rocketed by 50% in a year and rose another 6.5% just yesterday alone. The big increases have been caused by dwindling local supplies and lower exports from Vietnam where heavy rain has disrupted operations there. So watch out, therell be another 5p on a jar of coffee. And as if thats not bad enough, you know how expensive coffee is today in a shop, so heaven knows what price itll go up to shortly. Carrots Just a reminder about a wonderful show thats going to be at Hull New Theatre on Friday 8th September and Saturday 9th. Its all about the life of Dr Thomas Barnardo and his childrens charity and is performed by eighty local youngsters, who have given up their summer holidays to rehearse this great show. Theres wonderful music and theyre very talented kids. Perhaps there are some of the stars of the future in there! We had two of the actors on the programme not long ago and I hope youll be able to go and see the show. Tickets are on sale now from the box office and all the profits from the show will be going to Children In Need. So its a great show and a wonderful cause. If you want more information or if you want to buy tickets then get in touch with the Hull box office on 01482 226655. Crimewatch Its great to see last night the new programme Crimewatch Solves. This was the insight into how viewers calls have contributed to cracking a huge number of cases, including a serial rapist, who was first questioned on the day he was being interviewed for a prison governors job. There were some amazing success stories from the programme that seems to be running for years and years. Last night, they had some of the success stories and those of us, who are old enough, can remember the cases first time around. Do you remember Police Five? It was presented by somebody called Shaw Taylor. It used to be about five minutes long and that was the forerunner for Crimewatch. That was years ago and I suppose not many people will remember Police Five. Talking of television, there was a comedy double bill on last night. It wasnt very well advertised, but between seven and eight they had two classic episodes of BBC comedy. Both of which were written by the comedy legend talent of David Croft and Jimmy Perry. They showed Dads Army and an episode of Hi-De-Hi on BBC Two. If you missed it, then it was a really good curtain raiser to our programme, which will be celebrating caravan parks and holiday camps on our East Coast. That will be on Look North as we come live from the beach at Chapel St Leonards on Friday night. Well thats all from me for today. Join me tonight at half past six as usual! See you later. 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
