Hello and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope you had a very good weekend, and if you had something planned I hope it went very well indeed. We had a lot of responses to the programme last week, and keep them coming in this week as well. If you watch Look North and want to have your say on a story, or let us know about something, get in touch and drop us an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look at every message we receive, and of course many of our stories start with you passing on what youve heard or experienced. We had lots and lots of messages about the ambulance service last week. Thank you for that, and keep it up.
University If youre heading off to university at some point, youre probably keeping an eye on results, rankings, and probably grade requirements, but perhaps you should also be thinking of the cost of living. A major bank has released a report ranking universities according to how cost effective it is to study there. The most cost effective place to study is Plymouth, with Exeter as the most expensive university for students. Its something to bear in mind if youre a cash strapped student looking for a place to gain qualifications. Plymouth students were £3,290 better off than students in Exeter, which is quite a considerable amount. Students will spend over £10 billion in housing and living costs over the next year with around £4 billion go on rent, over £1 billion on food, half a million on books and £864 million on going out. Interesting to compare the money spent on books with the money spent on going out there. Nearly half of all students will be in part time work when the new academic year begins, demonstrating a sharp increase on recent years, so obviously even students arent oblivious to economic trends. Im not sure where Hull and Lincoln come in this list, but theyre not in the top 20 most cost effective towns to study in, according to this list. As so many people are staying on longer in education these days, its an added expense to pay for, isnt it? Interesting research, and as some of those spending statistics show, youve got to find a way to pay for all that socializing! Catfish and Chips Its one of our national staple dishes, and a traditional favourite, and according to reports, Catfish could soon be rivalling cod and haddock in our fish and chips. Its due to dwindling supplies of some fish, and a kind of Vietnamese catfish with a mild flavour which is gaining popularity and has been given the celebrity endorsement by chef Antony Worrall Thompson. I wonder what you think about changing a dish which has become such an institution, it seems a little like sacrilege. The fish was first introduced in this country by Youngs seafood, and is selling at a rate of around £4 million a year. So we could be ordering catfish and chips very soon. Maybe youre ahead of the trend and youve already tried it. Let me know what you think. Snake Now Im not much of a fan of snakes, and so Im afraid I cant really celebrate the discovery of a new species of the wriggly creatures. Its the smallest known breed of snake on the planet, averaging just 10 centimetres in length, and as thin as a strand of spaghetti. It was discovered in Barbados, and is thought to be at the limit of how small a snake can evolve. Females produce only a single, massive egg - and the young hatch at half of their adult body weight. The snake is the smallest of the 3,100 known snake species and was uncovered by an American biologist, who said: I was thrilled when I turned over that rock and found it After finding the first one, we turned hundreds of other stones to find another one." Not quite what my reaction would have been, but then each to their own. So thats a new species of snake discovered, and one more for me to avoid. Thats it from me for today. I hope you can join me tonight at half past six on BBC One, and in the meantime if you have anything you want to tell us, or anything you think we should know about, get in touch and email in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if youve got any interesting and unusual pictures you think we can show on the programme, send them in and Ill have a look at them. You can email in electronic copies, or put a hard copy in the post to our Look North newsroom in Hull. Have a very good day, and join me later tonight for all the days news. Bye for now Peter Your email address will be held by the BBC and kept confidential, and will only be used in relation to this newsletter. You will be given the option to unsubscribe from this newsletter each time you receive it. Please visit the BBC's Privacy & Cookies Policy (www.bbc.co.uk/privacy) for more information 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
