Hello, it's Peter here. Welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day's going well and you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. We'll have all the day's news including the anger at images on Youtube showing a motorcycle travelling at almost 200 miles per hour on Lincolnshire's roads.
We'll have the results of a major survey commissioned by the BBC looking at the health service in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Its our Big Check up, and well be lifting the lid on what you think about the state of our health services. We had a fantastic response on our story last week about the potentially dangerous sport of Parkour or Free running in our region. I'll be reading some of your comments on the show. And we'll be joined by the manager of newly promoted Scunthorpe United to ask what it means for the town .Its great news of course for sport in our region. And of course Paul will have the forecast as usual. Weekend What a weekend in every sense. The weather was stunning wasnt it? Both days were absolutely beautiful. I know some parts of the region had a little bit more cloud than others but I was in Hull for the whole of the weekend and it was just stunning. I was sitting yesterday down by the marina and it was beautiful. And of course it was a big sporting weekend, and what a weekend as well. We salute Scunthorpe of course and there was the Grand National too. We had a sweepstake here and I was lucky enough to pull the winning horse on Friday to win the sweep, which was good news. Anyway, whatever you did at the weekend, I hope it went very well indeed. Website Dont forget the brand new BBC Look North website is looking extremely good. Weve had a lot of positive emails in about that. If you want to watch the programme again or if you get home late and you cant see the programme at half past six you can always watch it on the web, and also if theres any one particular story that you want to see or you want to see again, then of course go to the website and theres plenty more information there including detailed weather forecasts as well. The address is www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. Today Well ten years ago today Stelios launched his famous airline Easyjet, which has of course been the subject of the TV programme Airline over the last few years. Its exactly ten years ago today that they launched his website. That was of course a major turning point for all websites and cheap airlines. Many people hadnt risked typing their bank details into cyberspace, but ten years ago today was when Stelios started with his Easyjet website. Now of course were all familiar with booking things on the web, but that was a great leap of faith, and for many people me included their first experience of buying anything over the internet was buying a cheap airline ticket. So of course we salute him, and he is of course Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Gas man Can you believe this? Well yes I can, because I did it one day last week but gave up. Britons spend more than one billion pounds worth of days of work each year waiting for deliveries or repair men, according to a new survey. The average worker lost 1.3 days of work last year waiting for that ring on the doorbell from the gas man, electrical engineer or delivery driver. 13.5 million days across the whole working population. Over a working lifetime this means the average employee uses 62 days off or three years worth of annual leave just waiting for the repair man or the gas man to come to the door. Frightening figures arent they? Parking A few weeks back we had a very lively conversation about Sunday parking charges in Hull. You can park free in Leeds, you can park free in Manchester, but you have to pay to park in Hull. Well now theres been a list of the most expensive places to park in the country and also the cheapest places to park. Some of the cheapest were over in Stockport, Cheshire, which is a posh area. Places like Cheadle only charge 20p for two hours parking. Some of the most expensive places? Well Westminster is £7.99, Heathrow £7.02, most of them are in London, although Bowness on Windermere is £3.84 and Manchester £3.68 for two hours parking. So there we are, the subject of parking is really getting everyone going at the moment. And also the discrepancy, how can it cost 20p to park for two hours in Cheadle and then go into Manchester and it costs £3.68? How do the prices compare with those in Hull? Well if you regularly pay, Id like your thoughts on that. Im not reading any more out, but thanks for the emails on the subject of banking and bank charges. Its a very emotive issue. I know lost of people are following that advice that we gave on the programme a few weeks back where you can get a form online. We did an interview with Martin Lewis the financial expert. You can get a form online and claim back your bank charges. Im still getting emails about that. There is a great amount of anger aimed at many of the banks at the moment. But thank you for all your emails on that. If youve got a story that you think we should know about or you think we should do on the programme, or a problem or an issue you think we should tackle on the programme then drop ma a line, give me the details and also give me a contact telephone number as well. If you want to email in, its [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Well thats it from me today, have a very good Monday afternoon and join me tonight on BBC One at half past six as usual. Bye for now. 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
