Hello, it’s Peter here and welcome to Tuesday’s Levy Letter. I hope your day is 
going well and I hope you’ll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. I’ll 
have all the day’s news and Lisa will have the forecast for us tonight. 

And also on Look North, I’ll be looking at the latest security system being 
installed in a nursery in Hull. They’re getting very hi-tech with parents only 
gaining access after a finger print scan! I’ll have more on that later.

We were talking last night about the Lincolnshire man, who was so fed up of 
drivers speeding through his village that he’s erected his own fake speed 
camera. Well, so many of you had a view on that one, so I’ll be reading out 
your emails on that tonight. Watch out for that. 

My special guest tonight is the wonderful Angela Rippon. She wowed audiences in 
the Morecambe and Wise show and she’s treading the boards at the moment in the 
Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes. She’s in Nottingham at the moment with that 
show, but I’ll be speaking to her later on the programme. I hope you can join 
me then.


Home Grown

We started our brand new series this week about growing your own home produce. 
Watch out every night this week for Home Grown on Look North on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 
Tonight on the programme, Paul and I will be getting our hands dirty. Watch us 
as we get mucky in our allotment. And if you want to email in on that or on 
anything else then do get in touch in the usual way.


Emails

Thanks very much for all the emails. Don’t forget if you want to drop me a line 
on any of the subjects that we’ve talked about, then it’s [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

This one comes from Marian, she says, “I hope the press aren’t going to overdo 
it with William and Kate and make their lives a misery like they sometimes did 
with his mother. Although, I think she sometimes did court attention. I was 
looking at the paper on Sunday and there was a very nice photograph of Prince 
Charles and Camilla celebrating their first wedding anniversary. But why oh why 
did they have to have a photograph of Charles and Diana on their first wedding 
anniversary next to it? Everyone is saying that they wish they would give 
Camilla a chance and stop raking up the past all the time. His first marriage 
should never have taken place. He obviously loved Camilla all along and she 
never created waves publicly. She kept quiet and in my opinion she acted like a 
lady through it all.” That comes from Marian. There you are. Thank you very 
much indeed for that one. 

If you want to comment on anything we talk about in the Levy Letter, then do 
get in touch. 


Pens

Don’t forget if you want your Levy Letter pen, then all you’ve got to do is to 
send me a stamped addressed envelope as soon as possible to Peter Levy, BBC 
Look North, Queen's Court, Queen's Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. 


Airlines

I see that airlines are to crack down on passengers, who try to sneak too much 
hand luggage onto planes. They’ve been told to enforce rigid rules on the size, 
weight and number of bags that are taken on board. The move is aimed at 
clearing bottlenecks that build up at baggage scanning machines, outside 
departure lounges. Airport bosses and transport officials say that passengers 
too often take oversized suitcases onto flights. Some travellers also break the 
rules on the number of bags. Economy passengers are usually allowed just one 
item of hand luggage and business flyers are allowed two. So there you are.


Water

We’re not actually in the area yet where we have a hosepipe ban, but I 
shouldn’t say that, because we do have some readers of the Levy Letter down in 
the south east of England. I know there’s someone living in Horesham that 
regularly reads the Levy Letter, so they may well be included in the hosepipe 
ban. Most of us though in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are not covered by 
the hosepipe ban just yet, but there’s a story about Wimbledon. They’re hoping 
that they won’t fall victim to the hosepipe ban. They’re warning that tennis 
companies are in crisis talks with Thames water to allow the famous courts to 
be allowed to be watered before the tournament begins in June. Water firms want 
to extend the ban, which began last weekend, preventing householders from using 
a hosepipe, to include sporting venues. Places like Wimbledon though are hoping 
they’re going to be exempt. Can you believe it?


Generation

Well, what they used to do and what they do today – mobile phones and computer 
games are killing off traditional playtime activities, so a new report says. In 
the old days, these were the favourite playtime games – at number one was tag, 
number two was kiss chase, number three was hopscotch. Well, I certainly did 
the tag and the kiss chase, but I’m not sure about the hopscotch. But these 
days the top three are a little bit different. Texting on your mobile phone is 
number one, football is number two and Playstation and portable computer games 
are at number three. Number four today is reading celebrity magazines. Number 
four in the olds days was skipping. Five in the old days was rounders. Today 
it’s eating sweets, chocolate and crisps. How things have changed? Number nine 
was cat’s cradle! I used to do that one, which is very worrying. These days 
it’s actually surfing the Internet and listening to Ipods!


Johnny Briggs

Thanks very much indeed to everyone, who have been in touch saying how 
brilliant they think Johnny Briggs has been playing Mike Baldwin until his 
departure from the Street on Friday night. I gather that at the end of this 
week, there is a special programme as well all about Johnny. There have been 
lots of adverts on the television at the moment calling it Confrontation 
Street! Thanks for the emails praising Johnny Briggs and my apologies as well. 
It was a slip of the tongue on Friday when I said he’d been in Coronation 
Street for twenty years. The answer really of course, should have been thirty 
years! So my apologies for that one! 


Photographs

Don’t forget keep the pictures and photographs coming in. If you’ve got one 
that you want me to see, then drop me a line and send it in. And watch out for 
it on the Big Screen.


Well, that's it from me for today. Enjoy your Tuesday afternoon and join me 
tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 

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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