Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on Look North at half past six as usual. Well have all the days news and stories as usual and today we'll be looking at claims that a Lincolnshire town was flooded because the environment agency was too slow to act. Could the floods have been dealt with differently? Thats the question everybody seems to be asking at the moment, especially if you were a victim. Well be asking the important questions on the programme.
We'll be finding out what happened to dozens of greyhounds made homeless after racing came to an end in Hull, yet more victims of redundancy in our area! Well follow the police as they investigate the discovery of two bodies in a house in Lincoln. And now that there's a Scotsman running the country, we'll meet a group calling for England to have its own parliament! Im sure that will stir up a lot of strong sentiments. And of course well have the weather forecast as usual. Were all hoping for dry weather and clear skies, but will we get them? Well find out the latest predictions on the show. Thank you for all the emails and messages weve had recently. We had a big response on the story about flood looting, I think people find it difficult to believe that some would prey on flood victims and actually take their belongings damaged or not from outside their front doors. We had some amazing pictures sent in from a viewers webcam, Im sure you remember those if you saw the programme. The video actually caught them in the act. Its shocking what some people will do when they sense an opportunity, but all the responses we had on that were disgusted, so its good to see the community spirit still strong. Reading Would you expect that people today read more or less than they did in the seventies? Well I think a lot of us would say that these days we spend less time reading the printed word, but in fact youd be wrong. A study just published, and I read this on the BBC News website, suggests that people read more these days, despite having the modern distractions of computer games, mobile phones, and mp3 players. According to a team at the University of Manchester, Britons spent an average of 3 minutes a day reading a book in 1975, while in 2000 this had risen to 7 minutes. Those numbers seem a bit low, dont they? Although it is an average. When newspapers and Magazines are taken into account, Britons were reading 5 minutes more at the beginning of this century than they were in the 70s, and women in particular are turning more pages than they used to. Apparently the rise in reading time can be explained by the fact that we organise our time more efficiently these days, and access to better education. Well that seems to fly in the face of what youd expect, doesnt it. Maybe things arent as bad as we think compared to how they used to be. Dont forget, if you have any pictures, stories, comments youd like to make, or even videos you think we should see and that you can send electronically, send them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if theres somebody you know whod like to get a free daily Levy Letter, send them to our website, www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull, and youll find the link there to subscribe. Well thats it from me for todays letter. I hope you can join me tonight at half past six, and also at ten twenty five for the evenings news. Join me then, 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
