Hello its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. Well have all the days news and stories, including claims that new licenses are failing to stop illegal gang masters from exploiting migrant workers.
We have shocking CCTV footage from businesses in Hull routinely targeted by gangs of shoplifters. They feel abandoned by the police, and well be giving you their story tonight. As always, well be waiting for your views and comments coming in about this by email, text, and phone, and they are always much appreciated. We'll also report on the legal loophole allowing developers to demolish a historic building even though the council and the public want it saved. Lambwath Hall in Hull could be knocked down to build flats, and well follow the fight to save it. And as we enjoy what could be the warmest autumn on record, we'll look at the impact on our region, and ask Paul Hudson what we can expect for winter. Its been remarkably mild so far, and if you want to find out if itll continue that way then watch the programme tonight at half past six on BBC One. Paul will also be giving us the weather forecast for the region as always. Electricity Look North would like to ask for your help on a feature were covering on the programme tomorrow. Electricity and gas prices have risen again recently, and some of those feeling the pinch most are the elderly and retired. If you, or somebody you know is in this situation, worried youre unable to continue paying the cost of your heating and power bills, then we need you to get in touch with us. The number to call is 07773455776, to speak to our producer John. So if you or someone you know is elderly and struggling to meet the costs of electricity and gas, then please give us a call and well take up your story on the programme. 1947 Thanks very much for all the emails with memories from the winter of 1947. Last week on Look North you may remember we had a real weatherman on the programme, when Ian McCaskill joined me and Paul on the sofa. Their new book 'Frozen in Time' remembers when winters really were winters and snow covered the ground for weeks on end. Well we want to hear from you if you remember the winter of 1947, arguably one of the worst in living memory. So please get in touch with more of your stories and recollections. Problems Dont forget, if youve got a problem, or an issue that you think we can deal with on Leave it to Levy, then drop me a line and give me the details, and also a contact telephone number and well see if we can tackle your problem. The address as usual is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shopping The high street is facing its worse ever Christmas in twenty five years according to a leading retail expert. Shops have seen poor sales in the past seven weeks, and if the pattern is continued in the run up to Christmas, they are predicting a blood bath. Stores are expected to mount a series of surprise guerrilla sales to shift their festive stock. Specialist retailers are being squeezed by the power of internet stores, and the power of supermarkets which are increasing their ranges and cutting their prices. Many shops are suffering. Against this background, traditional stores are being forced to slash their profit margins. So there we are, the good news is that although things look bleak for the retailers, it seems things will be an awful lot cheaper for the consumers than perhaps it would have been otherwise. Many items are actually costing a lot less than this time last year, with reductions of a hundred pounds on some of the must have items such as sat-navs and things l! ike that. So its good news for the shoppers really. Millionaires Fifty people are becoming property millionaires every day, because of the housing boom, according to a report. Soaring prices mean that the number of homes that are worth at least a million pounds have risen by a third over the past year to a record eighty thousand. So there are eighty thousand homes worth over a million pounds in this country. In some hot spots, property prices have soared by 55% in twelve months! That means that more and more people are becoming millionaires. The millionaire club grows by fifty a day! Sitting Generations of office workers have been advised to sit up straight at their desks to avoid getting a bad back, but now scientists have found that sitting bolt upright may actually make the back problems worse. An erect posture puts too much strain on the spine, and can trigger chronic pain, however, slouching is no better. To give your back the best chance, you should lean back at an angle of 135 degrees. So there we are, you need to get yourself something with an angle of 135 degrees. Experts are therefore advising people who spend long hours sitting at their desks to alter their chairs to a more relaxed position. So now we know. Im a Celebrity Are you watching it? I missed the last couple of nights, but if you have a view on Im a Celebrity, and most people seem to, then do get in touch at the usual address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Letter Dont forget, if you know somebody whos not signed up for the Levy Letter and you think theyd like one, then all you have to do is go to bbc.co.uk/Humber or bbc.co.uk/Lincolnshire, click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions through and theyll get their first daily Levy Letter from tomorrow, or the day after they sign up. So if you know anyone whos not signed up, then get them to those links at the bottom of the page. Shopping I was talking about shopping a few minutes ago. Well if you go to the States, the price difference is quite amazing. Theres a list in one of the papers today about how much something can cost here, compared to in America. A book, one of the new ones, is £17.99 in the UK, but £8 for the same book in the States. Top of the range clothing, something that would cost £282 in this country would cost £106 in the States. Right down to things like Tiffany sterling silver open hearts cost £120 here, and £65 in the states. Gucci steel cuff watches are £750 here, £450 in the States. So if youre thinking of buying, and youve got a trip to the States planned in the near future, then wait and do your shopping there. Well thats it from me today. Join me tonight on BBC One 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
