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 as ever. Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast for us. Although I dont think we need him to tell us that its raining! Weve all noticed that!
Also on the programme tonight, Look North will be with the hundreds of protesters outside one of the countrys largest power station. Environmentalists are campaigning to close the power station claiming its a huge pollutant in the region. Ill have the full story on that later. Plus I'll have a special report on the firm that have built Airfix models for decades, which have fascinated and thrilled so many young boys and older men for that matter for such a long time. The news has come out that the firm is about to go into administration. Ill have the latest on that, plus some recollections of the wonderful models that Im sure we all remember building and hanging from our bedroom ceilings! Well, I can remember that anyway! Also tonight, we'll relive the history of Sleaford's shoe factory as a reunion is planned for the weekend. I'll have the latest as preparations get underway for Mablethorpe's first marathon. Plus find out how you could win tickets to see the Beautiful south in concert in Lincoln. So a very busy programme. I hope you can join me tonight. Structure As you know, we were talking with Maureen Lipman on the programme last night. What a wonderful lady she is and what a star. Shes Hull born and bred. She was on the programme last night talking about the voting for the Unsung Landmarks from the UK. Weve got two in the final eight Grimsby Dock Tower and the Humber Bridge. And tonight I'll have the results of which landmark has been classed as the finest landmark in the country. Its been a tight competition. Jodrell Bank, the radio telescope that looks like a huge satellite dish, was a firm favourite throughout the competition. But after our plea from the acclaimed actress, Maureen Lipman last night, has our regions landmarks, the Humber Bridge and Grimsbys Dock Tower, crept up the poll. Ill have the results tonight on the programme. Yorkshiremen If you saw the survey, which said that Yorkshire people were the most opinionated in the country, then Im sure youll have a view on that one. Can you believe that? The most opinionated! Theyve of course, picked out the usual selection of people like Michael Parkinson, Geoff Boycott and also Dickie Bird as true examples of Yorkshiremen. And theyre apparently the most opinionated people in the whole of the country. Do you agree or disagree with that one? All your views greatly appreciated. Music If youre one of these people, like myself, who likes to download music off the Internet, then this is something of interest to you. I only got into it, because somebody bought me and Ipod and I managed to follow that through and buy the tunes from the Internet. It becomes a little bit addictive, so Im sure that at 79p a song, myself, like many other people, will be interested to hear that there is now a possibility of free music downloads to be offered legally for the first time. Universal Music, whos stable includes U2, Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, has given the go ahead for the launch of an online music store, which will rely on advertising alone for its revenue and we can download music for free. So the other companies, who can charge anything from 29p a track up to 99p a track, might have the pressure on them as people will soon be able to download music for free. Whether they stop the music half way through and put an advert on the track, Im not sure. Hair I see that they might be a little bit closer to finding a cure for hair loss, which is good news. This story caught my eye though, because its the sort of money, which could buy a top class car and could even provide a deposit for a home. Im talking about £37,000! For a woman, it seems, there is a far better way to dispose of £37,000 and thats on her hair. The astonishing total is according to research, which says that this is the average a British female will spend in a lifetime on close attention to her coiffeur. The average woman will spend £37,000 in a life time on visits to her hairdressers. I guess there are some people, who will spend less on their hair and will find that figure extreme to say the least. But Im sure there are some people out there, who like to pamper themselves fairly regularly! And that is an average isnt it? Im sure Cherie Blair has increased that figure quite considerably with her private hairdresser! Get In Touch If youve got a problem or an issue that you think we could help with on the programme, then let me know. Give me the details, let me know what the problem is and of course let me have a contact telephone number for you as well. If you want to get in touch, then the email address is the same as always, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And thats the same email address if you want me to see one of your photographs. It can be a scenic picture of a view from the region, or something funny youve seen when youve been out and about. Just let me take a look at it! Events Dont forget that if youve got an event coming up in the near future then let me know. If its for charity and a good cause and with an amateur group or society, then get in touch. I could give you a little plug in the Levy Letter for your event if youd like. Just drop me a line and let me know. Still the emails are coming in about neighbours and whether or not you get on with them. Ill have some of those in the Letter tomorrow. And also, still the emails are coming in about Des Lynam. I think well draw a veil on that story now as weve said all we can say about the issue that Countdown will be moving down South. But still the emails are coming in. Anyway, thats it from me for today. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. 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
