Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to todays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you'll be able to join me for Wednesdays Look North on BBC One at half past six as usual.
On tonight's programme, we'll have exclusive footage as Humberside Police carry out immigration raids in the city. And well find out why residents in one Hull estate can't sleep safely at night. Plus we'll meet the villagers in Lincolnshire, who are up in arms after their polling booth was taken away. More on these later. Theyre an iconic symbol for our region and can often be seen practising high up above the Lincolnshire fields. Well have more on the latest campaign to safeguard the future of the Red Arrows in our region. And also tonight, we'll be going behind the scenes in England's tallest working windmill near Boston. Thats all tonight on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me then. And Lisa will be with us for the forecast. Weather Talking of the weather, what a marvellous weekend it was for Easter. They reckon itll be even warmer this weekend. Lisa, of course, will have the details for us tonight. It was interesting to see the pictures in the paper and on the television of people sitting on the beach, sweltering in the heat down in Cornwall. Not that Im promoting Cornwall, I hope you understand! There were also pictures of Marbella in Spain, where it was grey and windswept and at times very rainy indeed. How things have changed? I bet people were kicking themselves if they booked a holiday in Spain last weekend. And they reckon that it made us spend £7.8 billion pounds this Easter weekend on DIY goods, garden products and barbeques for the summer. Thats an incredible spend isnt it? It was a great weekend and lets hope well have some more good weather coming up, especially for those of you, who bought a barbeque! And were only three or four weeks away from another Bank Holiday at the start of Ma! y. Still Single One in three women are unmarried at the age of thirty-five, according to new official figures. Thats a third still unmarried at the age of thirty-five. In 2000, only a quarter were not married and in 1990, just one in ten was in this position. Marriage began to experience a decline in the 1980s, but in the last decade, its popularity has fallen very steeply. The downward trend corresponds with the increase in women following careers, the rising cost of buying a home and the growing acceptance of couples simply living together. There you are. One in three women are unmarried at the age of thirty-five. Thats according to new figures. Wilf Who is Wilf? No idea? Computer users waste up to two days a month surfing in cyber space for things that they dont even need, according to a new survey. The phenomenon has been named as wilfing, short for What Was I Looking For? And it affects more than two thirds of the thirty-four million people in the UK, with access to the Internet. A major proportion of them admit to indulging in the aimless habit, whether at home or at work. That is wilfing! Does it affect you? Are you a wilfer? Let me know! But a couple of days a month are wasted surfing the Internet for nothing at all. Photos Dont forget, if youve got a photo that you think we would like to see on the Big Screen, then send it to me at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or if youve got a problem or an issue that you think I might be able to tackle for Leave It To Levy, then send me the details to the usual address. Diets Can you believe this? The worlds largest study of weight loss has shown that diets do not work for the vast majority of slimmers. This is a large study. Did we really need to know this? More worryingly it says that they may even put lives at risk. More than two thirds pile the pounds straight back on, raising the danger of heart attacks, stroke and diabetes, as soon as the diet is over. In fact, most dieters end up heavier than they did to start with, according to the researchers. This time they warn that the yoyo behaviour is linked to a host of health problems and they say that the strain that repeated weight loss and gain places on the body means that most people would have been better off not dieting at all. So there you are. It is official. The worlds largest study of weight loss shows that diets do not work! Pocklington Theres a huge event coming up in Pocklington this summer. I just thought I should give it a little plug now so you can put the date in your diaries! Its a three day charity event called the Flying Man Festival running from the 11th-13th May. This will be the 3rd time Pocklington has celebrated the Flying Man Festival and there will be many events taking place in memory of the Flying Showman, Thomas Pelling, who met an untimely end whilst entertaining townsfolk in 1733. So a rather unusual history for the Festival, but lots of events are planned in the town, including hot air balloons, street entertainments and art exhibitions. Lots going on, so put that date in your diary for the 11th-13th May! And good luck to all the organisers for that event, Im sure theyve got their work cut out. I hope it goes well. And of course, get in touch with me if you want a little plug in the Levy Letter for any charity event coming up, big or small! Cornwall Have I mentioned Cornwall once? Surely not. Well, just to mention it briefly again. Crab is crawling its way back into fashion with a new generation of shoppers attracted by its healthy low fat meat. A lot of it is down to none other than Rick Stein. He has a seafood restaurant at Padstowe in Cornwall and is always talking about crab. Sales of crab are now worth £6 million pounds a year, which is up 55% over the past year alone. Crab is very good for us apparently and is low in fat as well. Lots of its popularity is down to Rick Stein though with his television series and his restaurants down in Cornwall. Well, that's it from me for today. Enjoy your Wednesday afternoon. 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