Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to the start of another week on Look North 
and also on the Levy Letter. Thank you very much indeed for joining me. I hope 
your weekend was good. Whatever you had organised, then I hope it went well. 
Yesterday was certainly beautiful. Shirt sleeves and sitting in the sun 
yesterday. It was a glorious day, but I understand that by the middle of the 
week, it’ll be all change. Paul will have the forecast tonight to let us know 
more about that. 

Also at half past six tonight, we'll be talking to the Bridlington shell 
fishermen, who are meeting their French counterparts tomorrow to discuss how to 
end the damage to their crab pots. They say their livelihood is at risk. I’ll 
have the full story tonight.

We'll find out why a Hull trawler has become caught up in allegations of theft 
of items from the Titanic and why the once vanishing country hedgerows are now 
returning to our landscape.

Plus could you be the owner of a mystery wedding album left behind in a loft. 
And we'll be taking a twirl with the modern sequence dancers from Lincoln, who 
are the British dance champions. All that tonight on Look North. 


Letter

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Theatre

It’s a very busy time at the moment. This week in Hull there’s the production 
of Annie. Ruth Madoc from Hi-De-Hi and Little Britain is starring as Miss 
Hannegan. And also there’s a young lady from Bridlington playing the part of 
Annie and we’ll be talking to her on the programme tomorrow night on Tuesday at 
half past six. So that’s Annie on this week at the Hull New Theatre. And don’t 
forget there’s the Evening With Peter Levy on at the Hull Truck Theatre on 
Sunday 12th November. There’ll be special guests and also Paul will be there as 
well. Not this Sunday, but the Sunday after on the 12th November. 

The opera singer, Katherine Jenkins, will be joining me on the programme 
shortly. She is about to star at the Grimsby Auditorium. She’s on a tour at the 
moment. She gets to Grimsby on the 24th November and that’s a Friday. Ahead of 
that, I’ll be talking to Katherine on the programme. So it’s a busy time coming 
up on Look North over the next few weeks. I’ll also be talking to Alan 
Titchmarsh. His new book is just out and it’s the story of his childhood when 
he was brought up in Ilkley in West Yorkshire in the fifties. I’ll be talking 
to Alan in a couple of weeks as well.


Jim

I see that the children’s television show, Jim’ll Fix It, is to return to TV. 
It’s not going onto BBC One, but onto UKTV Gold. It ran originally from 1975 
until 1994. Jim is going to come back and present the programme. In its heyday, 
it used to get between nineteen and twenty-one million viewers a week and it 
ran for twenty years. Well, it’s coming back onto a satellite channel. It’s an 
amazing story of Sir Jimmy Savile. He’s still going strong and is still a live 
wire. He celebrates his eightieth birthday tomorrow! So happy birthday to Sir 
Jim for tomorrow!


Wonder Pill

A pill costing less than £2.00 a day could help the obese lose almost a stone 
in a year according to new research. Acomplia, which acts by curbing the 
appetite, was launched this summer. A study, published today, says it can help 
people lose twelve pounds in a year. The pill also helped diabetics improve 
control of their blood sugar level and cholesterol levels. Experts say that the 
drug could provide a novel therapy in the fight against obesity and diabetes. 
The twenty milligram and daily pill costs £55.20 for a months’ supply. It’s the 
first medicine of its kind, because it acts on the part of the brain associated 
with cravings. Since June it’s been available on the health service, but it 
doesn’t actually say whether we can pay for it ourselves yet. But it’s a diet 
pill, which will help you shed twelve pounds a year and costs £2.00 a day! I’m 
sure that will go down well won’t it! 


University

Many people I know and many people I work with at the moment have got debts 
from their years of study. Of course, they do have a degree and all that goes 
with it, but getting into debt, whilst at University, seems to be par for the 
course these days. Some people have enormous debts. Well, now they reckon that 
the average costs of going to University and getting a degree is £35,000! And 
the vast majority of people believe that spiralling tuition fees will deter 
teenagers from actually applying from University. They reckon that the number 
of people wanting to go to University will drop and drop and that doesn’t 
surprise me in the slightest! 


Well, that's it from me for today. Have a very good afternoon and join me 
tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm.

Bye for now

Peter 


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