Hello its Peter here, welcome to Thursdays 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 with more on the shock announcement that the Birds Eye factory in Hull is to close. We'll be asking why later on the programme. This is the latest company to close in our area, and Im sure a lot of you will have comments on this, or be affected by it. Please do get in touch, well have the contact details later on the programme.
We'll be speaking to the woman responsible for education in Hull about why the city is yet again at the bottom of the tables. The city has a poor educational record, and well be looking for answers. We'll be meeting the couple with an urgent warning for dog owners after their German Shepherd was poisoned by a bag or raisins. Lots of people dont know that raisins can be deadly to dogs. Well be trying to spread the word with our report tonight. We'll have the story of a man who's claimed thousands of pounds of bank charges back. We'll be showing you how you can do the same. We had Martin Lewis on the show the other day lifting the lid on these bank charges, and weve had a huge response, obviously there are a lot of us that have been hit by these charges, so dont miss this one and tell your friends to watch as well. And we've had exclusive access to Hull KRs pre season training camp in Spain. We'll have a special report from inside the camp as they build up to the new season. Of course Paul will be here with the forecast. Emails Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects, keep them coming in. If you want to drop me a line of course on any subject, or if youve got any questions or problems that we can tackle, then the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Earring You might have seen this story on the TV last night in the news, but its a great story so I thought Id report it anyway in case you missed it. Way back in 1934, Marlene Dietrich did a special visit to Blackpool to try out a brand new roller coaster. The ride at the time was the Big Dipper. She went on the Big Dipper, and lost an earring. She wrote to the owners asking, but they couldnt find it. Well now theyve just scraped a lake clear of water and mud in preparation for a new ride which is opening in the summer, and what do you know, they found the earring seventy years later. This Big Dipper ride, which many of us will have been on, goes over a bit of water, and while they were searching the water they also found three sets of false teeth, a glass eye, a bedraggled toupee, three dolls, a bra, and eighty five pounds in small change. But the most unusual of course was the earring belonging to Marlene Dietrich. Golf >From the useless facts of the day research being done by the School of >Sports and Health scientists at Exeter University, who are obviously flat out. >A happy home life can make you better at golf, according to the experts. >Researchers found the emotional support a golfer receives off the course is >directly liked to the quality of his or her performance on it. They measured >the level of support that 117 amateur male golfers received, and those who had >a better home life were better golfers. Well there we are, you couldnt make >it up. Botox Well everybodys been talking about it for the last three or four years, and the person that gets more column inches in the news about how she looks is Carol Vorderman. She apparently looks a lot, lot younger than her 46 years. Well shes known for her immaculate appearance and her strict eating regime, but she has announced that she would consider botox and 2007 might be the year. Shes also considering a facial peel. I have to say Im not quite sure what a facial peel is, but shes considering one of those as well. She started reinventing herself back in 2000 as a sexy mother of two when she launched her 28 day Detox Diet. Can you believe that was actually seven years ago now? Anyway, Carol Vorderman is ready for botox. Send me your views on botox to the usual address. Kate Kate Middleton celebrated her 25th birthday earlier this week, and of course the news papers have been full of pictures of her, and also the fact that theres been much controversy over the amount of photographs of her, more than 20 photographers and five TV crews were waiting outside of her flat on Wednesday this week when it was her birthday. It might have been here birthday, she might be able to afford more, but she showed that shed down to earth when Prince Williams long term girlfriend went to work on her birthday wearing a Top Shop dress for £40, rather than an outfit produced by her employer, whos a rival high street chain that makes dresses costing more. Its silenced her critics who sometimes say she wears clothes that are too old and frumpy for her age. I have to say Ive not noticed that, but you cant help feeling sorry for the girl at the moment. Everywhere she goes, there are people shouting and screaming to get pictures of her. Thats Kate Middleton whos c! elebrating her 25th birthday. All the rumours are that there might be a wedding or an engagement round about June time. Gillian Thanks for the emails reminding me that Gillian McKeith is back on the TV. I missed her first programme this week, which is a terrible error on my part, but she is back , and Ive also been reading about one Hailey Davidson, whos just gone on an all-carrot diet in an attempt to turn her skin orange? Why would anybody want to do that? Hailey, whos 19, is going to eat carrots for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days. Were she in East Yorkshire or Lincolnshire we would be having her on the programme. Shes in Newcastle Upon Tyne, lucky for her. Well thats it for me today, have a very good afternoon, and join me tonight on BBC One at half past six, bye for now. 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