Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays 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.
On the programme tonight, as new anti-age discrimination laws begin today, we'll be speaking to a lady, whos one hundred and one years old. She lives in Grantham and she worked until she was eighty! Its an amazing story. Well be speaking to her tonight. We're also with two men suffering from MS, who are worried that the cost of their home care could triple. They both suffer from progressive multiple sclerosis, but are staging a twenty-four hour protest outside Lincoln County Council offices. Well be live in Lincoln tonight to find out more about this. Well be visiting a fish and chip shop in Grimsby that's offering wheat free batter. And Ill have the story of a farmer in Bourne, who's taking off his wellies and putting on a dog collar instead. And you remember all the stink last year about schools banning conkers from their playgrounds, because of health and safety fears. Well, I remember all your comments last year about how stupid you thought this new rule was and it seems that many of us have not been put off and are looking forward to challenging each other again this Autumn. Apparently, this year could see a bumper conker crop in our region due to our hot and wet summer. We'll be out and about looking for a game or two! Also Paul will have the detailed forecast for us as well. Thats on BBC One at 6.30pm. Join me if you can. Weekend I met loads of people at the weekend. Thanks to everyone, who came and supported the Radio Lincolnshire Gold Appeal Ball on Saturday night. It was held at the Assembly Rooms and a lot of money was raised for their special appeal. If you backed the Radio Lincolnshire appeal, then thank you very much indeed. And it was great to meet so many people at the food stalls yesterday. I was there to open the first ever Beverley Food Festival. On tonights Look North, well be showing you how I got on there. It was very busy yesterday morning. The rain stopped just in time for the opening and it was a great morning. So thanks very much indeed to everyone, who supported the Beverley Food Festival yesterday and heres hoping that therell be another one next year. And well done, of course, to the town council for organising that one. Wind Well, they have a wing span of almost six feet, they hum in the breeze and they could be landing on a rooftop near you, whether you like it or not! Wind turbines! Youre used to seeing them on farms, but what about having your own wind turbine on your roof? Is it the far-fetched idea for the future? Well, not so. Theyre about to go on sale in a well-known do-it-yourself shop for £1500 including installation. And from next year, theyre unlikely to require planning permission following a change in the law. The DIY chain store is expecting to sell between twenty and fifty thousand a year. They believe that theyll become a common feature of the skyline in the next five years along with the satellite dish. When the wind is blowing at twenty-eight miles an hour, the turbines generate one kilowatt of power, which is enough to run a TV, DVD player, or computer, fridge freezer and several lights. The company says that the governments grants mean that buyers can reclaim 30% of the! cost of the installation, which will cut the price down to £1048. The windmill is mounted on a six foot pole, which needs to be at least thirty feet in the air and out of the wind shadow of any tall buildings. It needs to be mounted at the gable end of a property and a tail fin ensures that it swings around to face the wind. The average wind speed across the UK is 12.5 miles an hour at thirty-three feet above the ground. The wind-save system will start to generate electricity at nine miles an hour! So if theres anyone, whos interested in buying one of those at £1500, then let me know how you get on. Hot Lunch Most of us, of course, dash off and buy ourselves a sandwich or a bowl of salad or something like that. For Britons on-the-go army of fast food fans, then there is a treat for people like myself self heating soup. Can you believe this? You just click a button on the bottom of the carton, shake it and wait for a chemical reaction to kick in. Then your hot soup of tomato or whatever flavour youve got, is ready to drink. Its the first of its kind. It comes in containers four inches high and can fit in a handbag or glove compartment or even in your pocket. All you do is click a button and it heats itself up and then youve got a warm soup drink. What it tastes like I havent got a clue! But the soup that heats itself up is about to go on sale. House Prices House prices have given the Levy Letter plenty of material over the last couple of years. The story in the paper over the weekend was that house prices are rising by £56 day! I dont know whether you can believe this or not! This is as an unexpected rush of first time buyers fuels the property boom. The average price for a house in this country is going up by £56 a day and is now £169,413. Thats up by £13,000 on last year. And thats just for an average house! If yours is above average, then its even more than that. The average house price in this country is £169,413, but in this part of the world, there are many houses that are below that. Speed Cameras Again, this is a good old favourite in the Levy Letter. Only one in twenty road accidents are caused by drivers breaking the speed limit, according to government figures just out. In the past, the rising number of speed cameras has been justified by the Government insisting that speed kills. But the first published study into the causes of road accidents has found that breaking the speed limit has been a factor in only 5% of accidents. Accidents were far more likely to be caused by drivers failing to pay attention and making mistakes or by pedestrians not looking properly when crossing the road. Speed is not the number one cause of accidents. Well, there you are. Thats all from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm as usual at half past six. 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
