Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter .. On the programme tonight...
As the government threatens to withdraw subsidies for post offices, we take a look at the effects of closures. Now this is an issue thats bound to affect a lot of you, weve all used our local post office, and I expect a big response on this. And you may remember Boston being controversially named as the nation's fat capital, well on the programme tonight well meet one man who's fought back to lose ten stones! Thats an amazing achievement, and hopefully hell be an inspiration to others. And we'll also be meeting the 16 year old girl from Spalding who's taking on the world at Taekwondo. I'll also speak to the retired Policeman turned magician, who can make your lottery tickets into cash. Hes been named magician of the year apparently, and Im looking forward to seeing him do a few tricks. I do enjoy a bit of magic! Thats all on the programme tonight at half past six, and of course Paul will also be there with his forecast. Pumpkins Thanks to everyone earlier in the year who sent in for Peters Pumpkin seeds, and for all the pictures Ive been sent in over the last few months. Well today Ill be judging them, and picking out the best pumpkins so if you want to see that then come down to the BBC Open Centre in Hull today at half past three this afternoon. Best places to live You might have heard me mention this last night on the TV, but if you live in Hull, theyve produced a little list well quite a big list actually of the best and worst areas to live, ranked by six quality of life categories, to give an overall rating. They took in things like housing, economics, education, crime, health etc. And Kingswood comes out as the best part of Hull to live in. Newland Park is second, Sutton third, and Howarth Park is forth, and Inglemire is number five. Drypool and Victoria Dock come in at fourteenth. The bottom of the list is Orchard Park, coming in at number thirty eight. As I said, the Hull awards were ranked by quality of life. If you have a view on that, or indeed anything then you can get in touch with me at the usual address [EMAIL PROTECTED] And dont forget, if youve got a problem or an issue that you think we might be able to help with then do get in touch and let me know. Just give me the details and let me have your telephone number as well. Speech If you want to talk like they do on the BBC News, if you want to talk as correctly as a BBC announcer, then a new book will show you how. Yesterday, the Corporation published a guide to pronunciation. Its an up to date version of something thats been used since the days of Alexandra Palace. The Oxford Guide to BBC Pronunciation contains phonetic spellings of more than sixteen thousand ambiguous words and phrases and difficult sounding names, any of which could catch out an unwary newsreader of which there are plenty! Everything from how to pronounce Al Qaeda, which is pronounced UHL-KAHIDUH, to many others which are difficult. What use this book will be to anybody apart from a BBC newsreader Im not quite sure, but its out just now. Northern Theatre Company I gather its been a phenomenal week for the Northern Theatre Company with their production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which Liam Mower has been in at the New Theatre. If youve been then I hope you enjoyed it, and of course theres a couple more nights, tonight and tomorrow. And by the way, starting next week at the Hull New Theatre is a production of Annie, with Ruth Madoc from Hi Dee Hi, and also Little Britain. Also, the young lady who plays Annie is from our part of the world. Well be talking to her next Tuesday on the programme. Well be talking to Ruth Madoc as well. Nice Guys Well its often believed that that roguish, naughty, handsome and suave cads have no shortage of admirers, but when it comes to getting the girl for good according to a new survey just out nothing beats the genuine nice guy. Hes often dismissed as too wimpish or dull, but such men are actually more attractive to women than their macho rivals. A psychologist has set up a series of experiments, which show that people who are nice are genuinely the ones who get the girls than those who have more to offer. And on the subject of sex, they may be known as the fairer sex, but try telling that to their partners first thing in the morning. A study has shown that women are much grumpier than men over breakfast, and remain in a foul mood all morning. The Sleep Council survey shows that only one in seven women escape waking peevish opposed to a quarter of men. In other words, women are grumpier in the morning. Thirteen admitted that they cannot shake their bad mood for around four hours as opposed to ten percent of men. And it seems its all down to broken sleep, and the men are responsible because they do a lot of snoring during the night, preventing the women from getting a good nights sleep. Also, twenty eight percent of women as opposed to just five percent of men do household chores and housekeeping just before setting off to work. It tends to be them who prepare breakfast, spend time with the children, check their emails, and attend their beauty regime. Women far outweigh men when it comes to having a busy and packed morning. And thats why its official that women are more grumpy than men in the mornings! Well thats it from me today. Thank you very much for reading, have a very good weekend, whatever youre up to. If you meet anybody whos not signed up to the Levy Letter then point them in the direction of one of the two addresses at the bottom of the letter, get them to sign up and theyll get their first Levy Letter on Monday. Have a good weekend, join me tonight at six thirty on BBC One, and 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
