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 today for all the days news and of course Paul will have the forecast on BBC One at 6.30pm.
On tonight's programme, I'll have the latest on the former Grimsby detective, who's in court today over child sex abuse claims. And I'll have the latest on the three managers suspended at the Lincolnshire Hospital's Trust today as the enquiry into the fiddling of waiting lists begins. I'll be speaking to the chairman of the Health Trust to find out more. I'll also be meeting a woman from Lincolnshire, who has turned her life around and could be in with a chance to win a top business award. Its an inspiring story, so I hope you can join me for that one. I'll be bringing you the first pictures of the new radical designs for beach huts on our East Coast. And they say that manners cost nothing - well we'll be looking at claims that being nice is dying out as our pace of life increases. All that on BBC One at 6.30pm. Emails Dont forget if you want to email me in at any time then you can get me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do know that our statistics show that there are some new people, who have signed up for the Levy Letter. So if youre reading the Letter for the first time, then welcome to you. Thanks for joining us. Of course, if theres anyone you know, whod like a daily email to tell them exclusively whats on the programme that night and of course any other gossip as well, then tell them to sign up. Tell them to go to either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and theyll get their daily free Levy Letter from me after that. Spinach Well, Popeye the sailor used to sing about it, telling us it gave him his super strength. Well, scientists believe that it may protect people from the most common cause of blindness and they are preparing to test the theory that it could boost the chemicals which stop the eye degrading. Experts have worked this out at Manchester University and they have asked us to eat a diet rich in spinach, kale, sweetcorn and broccoli. So there you are. Spinach saves your eye sight as well as giving you the strength of Popeye! Age Theres two stories about age in the papers today. Ageism is endemic in the work place with over sixty million people in this country having been the victim or aware of it happening. A report just out reveals widespread discrimination on age. The research by the think tank Employers Forum on Age comes ahead of the biggest change in employment laws since the 1970s. New regulations coming into force on the 1st October will outlaw age discrimination at work. Half of those questioned in this research were unaware of the changes. From the poll of workers aged sixteen and older, more than six in ten of them said that they knew of ageism around them. Four in ten had seen the manager treat employees differently because of their age. So there you are. Ageism in the office is rifer than ever. Talking of age, turning forty used to be something a woman dreaded, but if the results of another survey is to be believed, then it is now a milestone to look forward to. According to the poll, todays over-forties look younger and have greater earning power than ever before. Theyre also more confident than they were in their twenties. And given the choice, over half of the seven thousand women questioned said that they would not like to go back to their younger days. So there you are. Good news for those of us coming up or just over forty! Michelle As you know, Michelle Dewberry, who won the television show The Apprentice earlier in the year, has hardly been out of the papers since she started her job with Sir Alan Sugar. There was the story of course of sadly losing her baby and then splitting up with her lover, Syed Ahmed. Well, the couple have been spotted together, so perhaps the relationship might be back on. But according to some of the stories in the papers yesterday and today, it seems that she is no longer working for Sir Alan Sugar, saying that things have not worked out. A spokesman for Miss Dewberry said however that Michelle is still working for the company at the moment. She has not been fired and she has not quit. As far as I know, she has no plans to leave the company. But another of the stories says that she has already left. So there you are. What are we to believe? Well follow the story of course with interest. And one day it would be nice, if Michelle returns home to Hull, to get her on the sofa ! for a chat. If we can arrange that, then that would be rather good. Anyway, we send our best wishes to Michelle. Hull A parcel arrived in the post today. Its a hard backed book and its just about to be published at £14.99 by Ian Carstairs. Its called A Portrait of Hull. I always buy books on Hull if I can, but this one is just fabulous. Its chiefly photographs of Hull today and some older ones as well. Its a fabulous book. If you like photographs, then Im sure youll like this. Its reasonably priced. Im not the agent by the way for the author! But its a lovely book and its called A Portrait of Hull. Look out for it. And theres a great picture of The Deep on the cover. That seems to be the picture that everyone seems to use when they talk about Hull these days. But still, its a very good book. Well, that's it from me for today. Join me this evening on BBC One at 6.30pm. Bye for now. 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
