Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. I'll have all the day's news and Paul will have the forecast. Im looking forward to the weekend, if youve got something organised or planned, then I hope you enjoy it. Paul will have the detailed forecast, so you can plan around the weather and thats tonight at half past six.
On tonight's programme, we'll be looking at the debate over free school meals in Hull and I'll be talking to one head teacher, who says that scrapping these free meals will damage our children's education. More on that tonight. And watch tonight, to find out why one family is asking the Humber Bridge board to tackle the problem of suicides from the Bridge. Ill have the full story on that tonight. We'll be talking to the Grimsby campaigner, who says that an invasion of ivy is damaging our countryside. We'll be meeting the Lincolnshire mum, who converted to Islam and is taking part in a new BBC series about spirituality. Plus Peter Sallis will be chatting to me about his time in the wonderful sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine and why he's coming to Pocklington. And do you fancy a career change? Well, tune in tonight to find out how you can train to be a blacksmith. So a busy programme tonight to finish off the week. I hope you can join me then. Leave It As you know, in Leave it to Levy, we deal with your problems on the programme. Last night, we were trying to tackle the thorny subject of a cemetery gate, which has been kept closed in Sleaford. It might affect a few, you might suppose. But it seems that it affects many. Sixteen hundred people have signed a petition. We were trying last night to help resolve that. But it seems we may have failed, but well follow that story. If youve got a problem that you think we could tackle on the programme and hopefully wed have more luck with that, then let me know. Perhaps we could use the power of Look North behind your campaign, then drop me a line and give me the details. Give me a contact telephone number as well, so that we can get back to you. For anything at all, then the email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marriage It seems that fewer and fewer people in England and Wales are getting married. Thats less than ever before. Some experts believe that some young people have been put off marriage after seeing their parents divorce. Others believe that changes in law, to clamp down on sham marriages, explain part of the fall. But there were 244,000 marriages in 2005, compared with 273,000 in 2004. So at that rate, there will be an awful lot of single people in a few years time. Fewer people are getting married. I wonder why weve fallen out of love with getting married and having the big wedding. Theres certainly been plenty of coverage in the press on that one. Your views on that, then get in touch. Bicycle Theres a chap called Oscar Hopkins. He paid £15.00 for a second hand racing bike. And he thought that because it was quite cheap and a little bit old, that it would probably wear out within just a few years. Yet more than five decades and one hundred thousand miles later, the British built racing bike is still going strong. Oscar bought the £15.00 bike back in 1956 and yesterday he reported that its still on the go, despite being taken to the Alps, the Pyrenees and through Norway and former Yugoslavia. Each mile he has pedalled on the steel ten speed bike has been meticulously logged since his first day in the saddle. He lives in Birmingham. He says, I have no idea how old the bike was when I first bought it. I didnt think to ask. But the bike, thats at least fifty years old, is still going strong. Can you top that story? Unless you know different as Cyril Fletcher used to say on Thats Life, then do get in touch. Sleep This is a subject close to my heart being somebody, who doesnt sleep particularly well. Sleeping on a problem can, apparently, really solve it, according to scientists. During a nap, the brain sorts out the days memories into files ready to be accessed at will. And according to the Sleep Research Centre, sleep serves the function of a tidying process and it will sort out the mind. So if you have a problem, then sleep on it and the chances are youll have a clearer idea how to sort it out the following day. In a way, thats normally true isnt it? Its always worse when you think about it the night before, than it is in the morning. Sleep on it its funny how those old sayings are often true arent they? 4x4 Owners of 4x4s (I say nothing) are likely to bear the brunt of changes in the way car insurance is calculated. Drivers of the big 4x4s, we know the brand names, the so-called Chelsea Tractors, will have to pay hundreds of pounds more for comprehensive insurance under a new risk assessment scheme that was announced yesterday. Changes are also likely to hit drivers of sporty diesels and some mid range hatchbacks. But be prepared for an insurance clobber if you are a driver of a Chelsea Tractor! Weekend If at the weekend, you meet anyone, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter and of course do ask them if they would like one, then point them in the direction of either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. So thats either bbc.co.uk/humber or bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire. Get them to sign up and theyll then get their daily Levy Letter from me. If they do it over the weekend, then theyll get their first email from me starting on Monday. Charlotte Shes the one celebrity that prompted quite a few emails a few months back when we were talking about her. She then started her chat show and it was absolutely panned. Everybody, including me, said it was awful and lo and behold the audience loved it and it has now been commission for two or more series. We wish Charlotte Church all the very best. Its her 21st birthday, so happy birthday to Charlotte! Well, that's it from me for today. Thank you very much indeed for reading. Have a good day and a good weekend. 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