Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on Look North at half past six on BBC One. Well have all the days news and stories from our region as always.
Coming up tonight, the effect of the recent floods goes on. Now private tenants worry that they're losing their homes, we'll find out why on the programme. Hull fails again in the latest education statistics. We'll have a report on this latest blow for the city. Well have the row over a new one hundred million pound housing development in Scunthorpe being built on a flood plain. Of course locations for new developments are very much in peoples minds after the flooding. We have the story of the Grimsby engineer who liked an aeroplane in Dubai so much, he rebuilt it and flew it home. Its an extraordinary story, dont miss that. And we'll reveal the worst football shirt ever, as voted for by supporters across the country. Ill give you a clue, the winner is close to home And of course Paul will be here with the weather forecast today. Dont shoot the messenger! Its not looking good outside the window at the moment. Well have the latest predictions on the programme. Railway Well we had a few emails and messages about this, apparently we were very controversial on the programme last night. Take a look at this email sent to us from Mr Longly, Last nights piece about Lincoln RAILWAY STATION, annoyed me intensely, there is no such thing as a Train Station, it is a Railway STATION, It is linked to another station by a steel rail and so on round the system, in other words the train is fixed to the steel rail, unlike a bus which can go anywhere to another bus station. This description that you used is Banned by the railway press and wont be printed in THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE or other technical publications. Well I have to admit, thats news to me. I dont know if hes right, but as I said we had a few messages saying the same thing. Its obviously annoyed a few people a great deal, of course we used the phrase train station, which I now know is banned by the Railway Press. If youve got any proof of this, anything you can quote definitively then send it in. I dont know how many train spotters or railway fans weve got reading the letter, but as always if youve got anything to mention, or anything you want to bring to my attention, or a picture or story you think we can use for the programme then send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rich List I see one of the newspapers has recently published its annual Rich List, thats the list of the richest people in the Britain and Ireland, Europe, and the world. Not all of the names on it are household names I have to say. Lakshmi Mittal is the richest man in Britain and Ireland, with his steel business. Hes worth over an incredible £19 billion. Thats 19 thousand million pounds, and the second on the list is Roman Abramovich. You might have heard of him, hes the owner of Chelsea Football Club apparently. Looking down the list, the next well known person is Sir Richard Branson at 11th, worth just over £3 billion. The rest of the names on the list are largely people you wont have heard of. Perhaps more interesting is how the list breaks down. There are 1,028 men featured in the list, and just 92 women. Another interesting statistic is that of the top 1,000 entries, 774 of those are self made. The top industries for making a fortune are land and property at number one, finance is second, and heavy industry is third in the list. So if youre a future tycoon you might want to head to one of those industries to make your millions, or in this case billions. They are incredible amounts of money arent they? Its difficult to imagine what those numbers mean, let alone having that much in the bank. And in case you were wondering what the most successful star sign was and even if you werent wondering Im going to tell you anyway, its Taurus. Second was Gemini, and the third most popular in the list was Capricorn. So now you know. If you know somebody whos not signed up to the Levy Letter and you think theyd like one, get them to go to www.bbc.co.uk/looknorthhull and click on Levy Letter and they can sign up and start receiving their free daily Levy Letter from the very next day. Of course at that web page you can also watch the most recent Look North programme if you cant watch it live, and you can watch some of the top individual stories as well, so if you havent started using it yet, try it out today. Thats about it from me, remember to join me tonight at half past six on BBC One. 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
