Hello and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope you had a very good weekend and its the start of another busy week on Look North. On tonights programme, after a sex offender absconds and is recaptured we'll be asking why high risk offenders are being kept at an open prison in Lincolnshire.
We also look at the drastic impact of fuel price rises on pensioners in our region. As Prince William looks forwards to starting flight training at RAF Cranwell, we'll be on the trail of the paparazzi hoping to snap the best shots And we find out how they're counting thousands of fish at the Deep in Hull. I wonder if it involves getting wet! And of course well have the weather forecast as always this evening as well. It certainly is chilly at the moment, typical January weather. Well have the latest predictions on the programme. I hope you can join for that on Look North tonight at half past six on BBC One. Im always amazed by the amount of people watching our programme from other countries and I dont think they get much further than Australia! I had this email from Carol and Doug Hudson. We are old locals of 'Middleton on the Wolds', village just outside of Beverley and are now living here in Perth Australia after leaving the UK just under a year ago. We still follow your programme via your website. We would like to wish all our family, friends and all in Hull and surrounding areas all the very best for 2008 Do you read the Levy Letter from afar? Let me know, and thank you to Carol and Doug for their email. Of course when Look Norths on live its the middle of the night over in Australia, so Im sure they wait until the morning. I wonder how it goes with cornflakes and coffee? Lottery Well its a dream many people share, to win the lottery and retire to a life of luxury, but where exactly do you stand the best chance of being a winner? It seems like an odd question as the chances of winning should be the same wherever you live, but bizarrely there are some places which have higher concentrations of winners. Medway Towns in Kent is now officially the luckiest are in the UK for Lottery wins. It knocked Ilford in Essex off the top of the list with an amazing one top ticket winner for every 6,119 eligible adults in the area. Thats an amazing ratio of winners considering the chances of picking the right numbers are apparently one in fourteen million! If you live in our region then dont give up hope, Hull has made the top ten list this year at number nine. Another interesting statistic is that one in 9,423 people eligible to play in Britain has now won something on the lottery. Of course most of those are more like £10 than £10,000,000, but if youre partial to a flutter on the lottery at least now you know the odds. Richer Britain According to an economic research firm, Britons now have a higher average income than Americans, Germans, and the French. Its the first time British workers have overtaken our American cousins since the 19th Century apparently. The average British worker now earns £23,500 a year, which is £250 more than the average worker in the US. However, this doesnt necessarily mean we have a better standard of living because goods and services are cheaper in America, meaning they can afford more. Its good to know were getting paid more these days, which makes a contrast to the study done in 1993 when we earned 34% less than Americans, 33% less then those in Germany, and 26% less than people in France. Of course this means the ideal place for us to go shopping is the US where the current exchange rates mean we get more for our money than if we buy things in the UK. Theres only the little matter of getting there that stands in the way now, and of course the more we earn in this country the more expensive things seem to get dont they? Or maybe it just seems that way! Well thats about it from this Mondays Levy Letter. I hope you can join me for Look North tonight at half past six on BBC One, and I hope you have a very good day whatever youre doing. Dont forget, 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 me. Take care and 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
