Hello there and welcome to Monday’s edition of the Levy Letter. I hope you 
enjoyed your weekend. I must say that the past few weekends have been really 
nice weather wise, I hope you took advantage of the sunshine! Did you manage to 
get down to Hull Fair before it packed up for this year? I must say sometimes 
it is just nice to go down and have a hot dog and enjoy the atmosphere rather 
than go on all the rides.


Weekend Telly

As usual it was the battle of the reality heavyweights this weekend with 
singers and dancers all competing for survival in ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and 
‘The X Factor’. This weekend both male and female dancers were competing to 
stay in the competition. However one team must go and it was Heather Small and 
Don Warrington and their respective partners who found themselves in the dance 
off. Unfortunately it was Don and Lillia who lost the final judges vote. Every 
year local dance schools report a surge in people taking up classes because of 
‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Have you started taking up Salsa? I’d love to hear 
from you and any stories of two left feet you may have!

‘The X Factor’ contestants this week had to perform Michael Jackson songs and 
unluckily for Louis Walsh another one of his bands ended up in the bottom two 
along with Ruth Lorenzo. Girlband left the competition as the judges could not 
come to a unanimous decision and they received the least amount of public 
votes. Who do you think will win? I thought Ruth’s rendition of Prince’s 
‘Purple Rain’ was brilliant and really showed her vocal range, so let’s hope 
she will stay in next week!


Be Prepared

The Scouts Association is to start offering its members sexual health and 
relationship advice. It will be geared mainly towards 14 to 18 year olds and 
leaders will be advised to discuss contraception and encourage the resisting of 
peer pressure to have sex. Chief Scout Peter Duncan said: "We must be realistic 
and accept that around a third of young people are sexually active before 16." 
Scout groups can also organise trips to sexual health clinics and give details 
of other helpful agencies. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Would you be 
happy for your children to learn about sexual health at scouts? Let me know by 
emailing me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Stayin’ Alive

Now what do you think to this one. Apparently listening to the Bee Gees can 
help save lives. US medics have found the Bee Gees'  ‘Stayin' Alive’ is an 
ideal beat to follow to perform chest compressions on a victim of a cardiac 
arrest. When performed properly CPR could triple survival rates.  The 
University of Illinois College of Medicine saw a group of 15 doctors and 
students performing CPR on mannequins while listening to ‘Stayin' Alive’. They 
were asked to time their chest compressions with the beat. Five weeks later, 
they did the same but without the music, and were told to think of the song 
while doing the compressions. Well there you go, something to mention if you 
are on a First Aid course!

Well that is all from me today. I hope you will join me tonight for Look North 
at 6.30pm on BBC One.

Take care,

Peter

And for the latest news and more where you live, go to:
http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire

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