Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays 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.
Tonight, we'll have the exclusive pictures of a daring rescue of a three year old boy and his family from their home following a suspected arson attack in Bridlington. And we'll have a special preview ahead of the local elections and we'll be finding out what it'll mean for you. Find out why Lincolnshire is set to be a favourite yet again with Hollywood producers. And we need your help tonight. Well be talking to some Grimsby teenagers, who are mad about Parkour and need your help tonight in a Leave It To Levy. Plus if youre green fingered, I'll be letting you know how you can help preserve some of the region's rarest apple varieties. Thats all tonight on BBC One at half past six. I hope you can join me then. Emails Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Keep them coming in. Dont forget, if youve got a problem that you think I could help with on Leave It To Levy, then let me know. Send me the details. And if theres a story that you think I should know about and investigate, then give me the details. Drop me a line and give me the details via email and also give me a contact telephone number as well. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual. I found out yesterday that BBC Radio Humberside have got some air fresheners to give away for your car. I was fascinated by the phenomenon of last week where grown adults were queuing outside a supermarket at 3 oclock in the morning for a bog standard unremarkable bleached cotton shopping bag thats worth £5.00. But hundreds and hundreds were being sold by a major supermarket and some people started queuing at 3am. It was designed by Anya Hindmarch. Well, not to be outdone, Vanessa Feltz, who has a show on BBC Radio London, which is the sister station to BBC Radio Humberside, is taking on an experiment. From nine oclock this morning, she was standing in the foyer of the BBC in London, giving away fifty of her Vanessa Feltz carrier bags. So well have to see how well they do! Thats given me an idea. Maybe I should get out a Peter Levy carrier bag to give away on Look North. Any takers? Maybe not Tickets Well, we heard that tickets werent selling and there were problems with the big concert, which was planned for Hull this summer. One concert that is going ahead is Barbra Streisand. Shes going to be singing in the summer in Londons Arena, which is the former Millennium Dome. Barbra Streisands concert is the first one in thirteen years. So far so good. But youd better be prepared for this one. If you want to go, the charges for tickets are £500. The cheapest tickets are £100, but the rest are £500. Can you believe that? She had better be good for £500. Can you imagine spending that much money to go see Barbra Streisand? Some of the demands of the diva Barbra as she sets out on her concert well, one hundred and twenty bath towels to be provided immediately on arrival for her production team. How many baths do they want? Ten floor lamps of a certain style. Thirty-five banqueting tables. One hundred and fifty folding chairs. Plain clothes security guards. Police dog units! to sweep the auditorium before the sound checks. Metal detectors at all entrance doors, including backstage. Two nineteen inch or larger TVs with remote controls. So there you are. But if you want to go, then itll be £500, which will presumably cover for the one hundred and twenty bath towels! The top ticket price is more than three times what it would cost for the best seats to see the Rolling Stones or Madonna in concert this summer. Friendship What price do you put on having a good friend? Economists have had a go. They reckon that an £85,000 pay rise is the equivalent of having a good friendship. They say that acquiring a new friend, your best friend, is like getting an £85,000 pay rise. Who thinks of these things? Its absolute rubbish isnt it? On the negative side, a painful divorce can bring misery the equivalent of going into debt of £139,000. And if you suddenly lose your job, then its the equivalent of losing £143,000. Whoever thought up these figures Im not quite sure! Health As you know, Ive been eating the old nuts and seeds for about eighteen months now. I see from a story today that a handful or two of pistachio nuts a day could keep heart disease at bay, according to researchers. They appear to lower cholesterol and keep arteries healthy. Just three ounces of pistachios a day is enough to significantly lower the risk of heart disease and nuts are thought to be rich in nutrients that reduce the hardening of the arteries, which is one of the main causes of heart attacks and strokes. 1.5 ounces of the nuts a day is what you need. The great thing about pistachios is that they are lovely to eat and they are very moorish. The bad thing is that every time I look at them in a supermarket, they appear to be exceedingly expensive for just a small bag of nuts. And you find that most of the bag is shell! Do you have to pay for the shell? Anyway, thats it for today. Dont forget, if you want to drop me a line about anything at all, then get in touch. And take a look at our website www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. You can get lots of information about the programme, the latest news and the forecast from Paul. You can watch the previous nights show in its entirety or just a particular report that youd like to see. So take a look! And if theres anyone you know, who's not signed up to the Levy Letter, and you think they would like one, then get them to go to that address. Click on Levy Letter and tell them to sign up. Theyll then get their daily email from me the following day. 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