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. Paul will have the forecast. And well be finding out why there are still some homes and businesses in Lincolnshire, which havent had their electricity restored after that big storm last week. Thats five days since the bad weather, which brought down power lines across the region. Ill be getting answers for those affected tonight.
Also on the programme, we'll be talking to the teenager, who's appealing to find the killers of her two horses. Ill have her distressing story tonight. And this one will appeal to any motorist, whos been caught speeding on our regions roads. We'll have the latest as an appeal begins today against a speeding fine. The motorist claims the police's speed gun was wrong. Well be getting the latest on this one. Plus find out tonight how a lump of wood will be transformed into Yorkshire's tallest person. And I'll meet the nineteen year old computer whizz kid, who's launched one of the country's most sort after websites. Ill have that success story on tonights Look North at half past six. I hope you can join me then. Weekend I hope your weekend was good. Whatever you did, then I hope you enjoyed it. And are you looking forward to the start of another week? I hope so. If you want to tell me about a story, or if youve got a problem that we can help with, then give me the details and let me know. Well do what we can. The usual email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From just outside of my flat at Victoria Dock, I can see the two ferries the >one that goes across to Belgium to Zeebruges and the other one that goes to >Rotterdam and then onwards with the passengers to Amsterdam. So Im used to >seeing the ferries from my window and its one of the highlights. And even >after living in Hull for four and a half years, the novelty of seeing them >coming and going hasnt worn off. There was a picture of an amazing, almost >space-like ferry, which is an impression of a new giant ferry to be launched. >Its going to change the face of shipping for the English Channel. It will set >sail with the first cargo of holiday makers next summer. Its a trimaran and >its called a bateaux grande. Its the new look of ferries for the future and >will be operating in the English Channel going across to France. Its capable >of travelling at more than sixty miles an hour. Its two hundred and ten >metres long thats twice the length of a football pitch and can car! ry one thousand and five hundred passengers, two hundred and sixty cars, eighty-four lorries and ten coaches. The new ferry will be based at Sheerness in Kent. Its just unbelievable. Ferries are getting bigger and bigger anyway. I saw an advertisement on the TV at the weekend showing a cruise liner with a golf course, water slides and even a climbing wall. Thats impressive enough, but this ferry sounds even more amazing. If you havent seen the picture, then do look out for it. It is extraordinary and changing the face of ferries as we know them! Grandparents Grandparents all across Britain are digging deep into their pockets to fund their offsprings childcare costs. With nursery fees running as high as £800 a month for one child, more and more parents now simply cant afford it, so theyre turning to their own mums and dads for help. The number of pensioners subsidising child minder fees and nursery payments has more than doubled in the past three months, according to new research. Almost a quarter contributed to childcare costs in the six months preceding this date. And the proportion of retired grandparents, helping their own grown up children pay off debt in the last six months, has also increased. So there you are. The number of grandparents paying out for childcare for their grandchildren is increasing. Just extraordinary isnt it? Driving If you do a bit of driving every day, or maybe a lot of driving every day, then Britons trying to shake off a bit of their Christmas pounds have been given a bit of shock. Driving makes you fat! Every three hours spent at the wheel of a car, increases the risk of obesity by 6%, says the RAC Foundation. Road congestion is likely to lead to further obesity, because motorists have to spend extra time in their cars. Worst still, statistics reveal that overweight motorists are more than twice as likely to be killed or seriously injured in road accidents. The RACs report, based on a review of international research, gives little comfort to the very thin. Theyre also more likely to be crash victims. The warning came as one insurance company reminded us that today is traditionally the most depressing day of the year, with motorists most at risk, because their concentration and reactions are suffering. So if youre driving today, or for whats left of today, then take extra care!! Photos Dont forget, if youve got a photo, that you think we should see, then send it to me. I might be able to put it on the screen for you half through Look North. Its the usual email address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Car Clean Well, Ive had a phobia all my life of going to the car wash. I cant go in one of those car washes, where you have to sit inside the car as it washes it. It started when I was a kid and its never gone away. Ive never actually been in a car wash on my own, because Im just so scared of them. I always go to the high pressure jet washes and theres one just near me so thats handy. And its open twenty-four hours a day as well, so its good for me. I was reading at the weekend, that high pressure car washers are putting lives at risk by making tyres susceptible to blow outs. Thats according to safety experts. Jets of water from the machines can damage and degrade the tyre walls if aimed directly at it for as little as five seconds. Ive done that many of times! This is according to the industry watchdog. Theyre concerned that a growing number of car washing teams are using the high pressure washers in car parks and at the road side and could be putting motorists at risk. T! heyre also urging those, who may have bought one of the machines for home use, to check that its not too powerful. If you go and use one of these jet washes, then dont aim it directly at the wheel of the car or on the tyre wall, because it can damage it. I didnt know that until I read about it at the weekend. So I thought I should pass that on! Well, that's it from me for today. Have a very good Monday afternoon. Even though this is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, dont be too glum! Look out for the first Look North of the week. Its the usual time of half past six on BBC One. 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