Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays 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 as usual. I'll have all the day's news and Paul will have the forecast.
On tonight's programme, we'll be asking how clean is your hospital. We'll have the next part in our series, The Big Check Up, looking tonight at the cleanliness of our local hospitals. Im getting lots of emails and answer phone messages in from you about your thoughts about our local hospitals. So thank you very much for those. So many stories saying how you wanted to thank nurses and doctors after being poorly and spending some time in there. And then there are some emails criticising hospitals and the care that you or your family have received. So lots of messages in with your thoughts about hospitals and NHS care, thank you for those. Keep them coming in. You can email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or you can phone either one of our hotlines on 01482 314406 or 01522 875184. I look forward to hearing your thoughts about the NHS. Also tonight, we'll be looking into the increase in dog thefts in the region after six valuable pedigree dogs were stolen from a farm in Goxhill. Ill have more on this later. We'll be with a family of thirteen from Grantham, who have decided to teach eleven of their children at home. Plus we'll be trying to find out why satellite navigation systems keep sending lorry drivers to a rickety footbridge near Spalding. I'll also be speaking with the Hull reporter, who was hoping to make her career as a Kate Middleton look-alike. She is now ruing her luck with the news over the weekend of the Prince's split from his girlfriend. Ill be speaking to her tonight! All that on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me then. Emails As I said, thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Dont forget, if youve got a story or a photo, or something that you think we should know about, then let me know. Drop me a line at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] And just a reminder that if you ever miss Look North, if youre home late and you forget to set the video, then you can watch the whole programme again online. Were on the Internet on our new Watch Again page. You can just watch one particular story or the whole programme again and Pauls forecast is on there as well. So take a look at our website at www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. Property Prices Where would the Levy Letter be without stories about property prices. My word the papers are full of them at the moment. Property prices have risen by an average of more than £8000 in the past four weeks. Thats the largest monthly increase in five years! The traditionally buoyant Spring market has exceeded all expectations with values soaring by a huge £267 a day. Homes now cost £8307 more than they did four weeks ago. People are earning more money with their houses than they are with their jobs. This months 3.6% increase is the largest monthly hike since 2002! Just extraordinary! Its just frightening isnt it? Where will it all end? Mister Men Its ten years since they finished, but after a decade out of the limelight, Mr Tickle, Happy, Nosey and Greedy, known to generations of children as the Mister Men, are making a TV comeback. Many of the original twenty-five characters, including Mr Bump, have been reworked in the latest animations. Mister Men are back on the TV for the first time in ten years! Leave It Dont forget our feature, Leave It To Levy. Weve had a great success story reported just today on one of the stories that weve done. If youve got a problem that you think we could tackle on your behalf on the programme, then let me know. Give me a contact telephone number as well and then leave the rest to us. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chocolate A passionate kiss is sure to make the heart melt, but eating chocolate is a much better way of keeping it racing. Thats according to a new study. Researchers have discovered that dark chocolate provides a buzz in the body and brain, which lasts for almost four times as long as a glow from a good smooch. Can you believe that? Chocolate is a very passionate thing! And talking of passion, young men beware. That older woman smiling at you may have more on her mind than you think. Apparently, there are two hundred and eighty thousand women over the age of forty-five in this country on the prowl in Britain looking for a younger lover. Can you believe that - two hundred and eighty thousand women over the age of forty-five looking for a young man! Size I bet you know what size you are for clothes and everything like that, well at least you think you know what size you are. You go into the clothes shop, you pick up a 32in waist pair of trousers from the clothes rail and it may or may not fit you! Chances are though that you are a lot bigger than that. If youre ever pleasantly surprised at being able to squeeze into a pair of 32in jeans, then dont celebrate too soon. In reality, you are probably two sizes bigger than that. Fashion companies are flattering their customers vanity by faking the true size of their waistline, according to research. Many clothes have waists three inches larger than it says on the label. Can you believe this? The biggest discrepancy was in one well-known high street chain where the waist lines of mens jeans were six inches bigger than advertised. To give you an example here, a well-known high street brand the label size says 30in, but in actual inches of material, its 36 inches! And even in ! another high street chain, a 32in pair is actually 36in. And its the same for the ladies as well. There you are. You might not be as small as you think you are. Marriage Picking the perfect dress is the important part of every brides wedding day preparations, but the cost of getting married is soaring. One charity shop is appealing for donations of wedding dresses to satisfy the demand from brides to be. Wedding dresses sell for an average £250 at Oxfam shops, compared to an average of £826 in gown shops. So there you are. So it looks like people are buying their wedding dresses from charity shops. A bride recently went into one shop, looking for a bargain. She had set her heart on a dress worth £2000, but knew it was well out of her price range. Incredibly she found the same dress on sale in the charity shop for £129! Just extraordinary isnt it! So enjoy your afternoon. Drop me a line today about anything at all. Join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. 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