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 as usual. Its another busy programme ahead of us today. I'll have all the day's news and Paul will have the forecast. The rumours are that the weekend is not looking good at all and thats not just here, but across the country as well. Well find out if thats the case with Paul at half past six. At least it will give the gardens a water!
On tonight's programme, find out what's becoming a health hazard and is stopping children from playing outside in their back yards in Scunthorpe. We'll have the latest on the Bin Wars in North Lincolnshire as home owners' rubbish continues to pile up. We'll be asking the council what they are going to do about it. We'll be talking to the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, about why he's the man to help Gordon Brown win the next election. But well be asking him whether or not this new job will keep him away from his constituents in Hull. Also tonight, we'll have fantastic pictures of the latest plane to fly out of RAF Waddington. And in our Leave it to Levy tonight, I'll be trying to stop a Hull landmark from being vandalised. Find out if I win with this one on the programme tonight! Weve got an incredible tale for you tonight. Well be bringing you the murky history of Captain John Smith, a nobleman from Willoughby, who left Lincolnshire to discover America. And we'll be visiting an East Riding village, which is set to ban smoking this weekend. Theyre a few months ahead of schedule. The national ban on smoking will come into force in July across England, but theyre carrying out this unique experiment to see how the villagers fare in their local pub. So a busy programme tonight. I hope you can join me at half past six as usual! Emails If you want to drop me a line at any time of course, then you can get me directly on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont forget our Leave It To Levy segment, where we tackle problems for you. If youve got an issue or a problem that you think I could help with, then give me the story and a contact telephone number and well see what we can do. Fivers Britons are fed up with torn and tatty five pound notes and would much rather have a five pound coin instead. Thats according to a new survey. The grubby state of the nations lowest denomination bank note has become an embarrassment, according to shoppers. Almost half of those questioned believed the humble five pound note should go the way of the one pound note, which was phased out in the early eighties. The fiver has already lost most peoples respect and the rough handling it gets adds up to a life expectancy of just nine months. The fifty pound note on the other hand can last for three or four years. So there you are. Thats the subject of five pound notes, which could be replaced with five pound coins. If youve got a view on that one, then get in touch and let me know. I have had a huge response on some of the things weve been talking about this week on the programme. So thank you very much indeed for all of those. And keep them coming in! Over the weekend, despite the weather, if you take any good looking photographs that you think we should see that we might be able to show on the programme, then send it to me. Weve got quite a few sunrises and sunsets, so no more of those please! Any unusual picture, then please let me take a look. Perhaps you could try and capture this miserable weather were bound to get this weekend! Surfers Something I like to do when on holiday is a bit of surfing and body boarding. Ten surfers had to be rescued this week after being dragged out to sea by a freak sand bank collapse. Tons of sand suddenly broke up beneath them. A deep trench was formed creating strong currents, which dragged surfers into deep water. The group were a hundred and sixty feet from the shore line when the underwater sand bank gave way. This is normally unheard of in Britain, but is most common in the southern hemisphere, where hot weather and big waves can loosen the sand. In South Africa and Australia people drown every year as a result of sand bank collapses, but its very rare in this country and it happened at one of the busiest bays in the country for surfing. Thats at the famous Watergate Bay at Newquay in Cornwall. Luckily, everyone was safe though. Ten Well ten is the most quarrelsome and most argumentative age for children, according to researchers. Despite causing headaches for parents though, fights between brothers and sisters are an important part of a childs development. If there are two children at home, ten is the worst age for sibling rivalry. Its the age of eleven, if there are three children and eleven and a half for four. Thats according to Dr Dorothy Elnon, who is a child psychologist. But rows and squabbles at home are worse at the age of ten! So be warned! Fifties >From tens to fifties, middle aged Britons are holding back the years, thanks >to healthier lifestyles and better diets. Thats according to new research. >Never mind all the scare stories about hydrogenated fats or too much salt, >millions of over-fifties say they look and feel ten years younger. Women seem >to be looking after themselves better, with around 70% in their early sixties >saying they feel a decade younger. While a third believe they even look a >decade younger! So its not all doom and depression in your fifties. Thank >heavens for that! Well, that's it from me for today. Thanks for reading the Levy Letter this week. If theres anyone you know, whos not signed up to the Letter and you think they would like one, then tell them to go to our new website. You can watch the latest edition of Look North or bits of the programme and the latest weather forecast too. The all important address is www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull. Take a look! Have a good weekend and look out for your Levy Letter again on Monday. 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