Hello, its Peter here. I hope your weekend was good. I hope you enjoyed your Easter and welcome to the start of another week of the Levy Letter. Its a short week of course, but I hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm.
Weve got a busy show tonight. Ill have the latest on the missing mother, Alison Davies. Her twelve year old autistic son was found drowned in the River Humber and concern is growing for the safety of his mother. Ill have the latest update on that as rescue workers are still searching for her. I hope you can join me for that. Also tonight, Hull Council have had to splash out £60,000 because our bottoms are getting bigger! Can you believe this? Well, as you know Hull has been slated as being the Fat Capital of the Country. Well, it looks like this might be true. New chairs have been bought for the citys entertainment venue, Hull City Hall and these chairs are two inches wider than those previously bought twenty years ago. The council has apparently been inundated with complaints about their uncomfortable seats and have now bowed to public pressure to provide us with larger seats for our ample bottoms! Well, Im sure youll have a view on that one! Tune in later to find out more. My guest tonight is a wonderful television presenter, whos still going strong after many years in the business. He used to be locked up in a broom cupboard every weekday and recently starred in ITVs Dancing on Ice. Ill be talking to Andi Peters tonight about why hes hung up his skates when everyone else appears to be taking it up as a hobby. Ice rinks are packed out with people taking up this sport and Hull has a new show coming to town too. Russian Ice Dancers are performing their version of Snow White and are running master classes for local children. Find out more about the latest craze tonight. And of course Paul will be back with the forecast on BBC1 tonight at half past six. I hope you can join me. Home Grown Ive had so many emails from you all, saying how much youre enjoying our new series about local food and home grown produce. Well, I hope you can watch Look North tonight, because were challenging you tonight. We want to encourage families to eat local food and to grow your own food and we want to hear about your experiences. So if youre green fingered and you want your family and your children to get the gardening bug, then tune in tonight to find out about our Home Grown challenge! Easter I hope your Easter was good and according to the TV adverts, we all had to buy a sofa this weekend! So I just hope that you bought your sofa and got a good deal on it! I dont understand what its all about, but every other advert is for a sofa sale and then if its not for a sofa, then its for creosoting your fence! Well, I have a sofa and there are no fences at Victoria Dock that need creosoting. So what ever you did over the weekend, then I hope you enjoyed yourself. If youve got problems with your neighbours, then the chances are that leylandii hedges are the things that cause the most trouble and they have been doing for the past couple of years. But leylandii hedges have been overtaken now by trampolines. Theyre the in thing at the moment that all families with young children have or want to have. Trampolines are causing more problems with neighbours. Your views on neighbours and disputes with neighbours, then do send me an email and let me know. And dont forget, if youve got a problem that you think we could tackle on your behalf on the programme on Leave it to Levy, then do give me the details. Drop me a line and give me a contact telephone number as well and either send it by post to the usual address or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pens If you want your own Peter Levy, Levy Letter pen and you are a reader of the Levy Letter, then you are entitled to one! Send me a stamped addressed envelope to the usual address BBC Look North, Queen's Court, Queen's Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Friar Tuck The BBC are working on a new series, according to the paper, about Robin Hood. But Friar Tuck has been banned from the new programme so that no one will laugh at fat people. The script writers thought about keeping him in, but it was decided that they shouldnt make fat jokes, especially when there are young viewers tuning in so said an insider of the Saturday evening drama, which will start in the Autumn. So there you are. The new Robin will be Teachers heartthrob Jonas Armstrong and he follows in the footsteps of Richard Green of course in the fifties and Michael Craig in the eighties. Filming of the eight million pound production began in Budapest last week. Well, thats not a BBC story that one, but one that I read in the papers. Friar Tuck is not going to be in Robin Hood as we dont want to upset fat people. Snoring Parents, who snore, are three times more likely to have children, who will be noisy sleepers too. Doctors say that their study of 681 infants, with an average age of one year, shows that snoring is genetic. They found that those, with at least one parent who snored frequently, were far more likely to snore themselves, than those whose parents slept soundly. Although the condition is seen as a joke, it has been linked to behavioural problems, mental impairment and also heart and metabolic disease. So there you are. Thats for fellow snorers out there, and I know that I snore, because Ive been told and I certainly know my Dad snored, so it is genetic! Well, that's it from me for today. Dont forget to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. If you want to drop me a line about anything Ive mentioned in the Levy Letter, or about anything at all, then its the usual email address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, I want more people to sign up to the Levy Letter as the weeks go on. If theres someone you know, whos not signed up, then could you ask them to sign up? Point them in the direction of either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and sign up. They will then get their Levy Letter from the following day. Were also looking for photographs as well. Have you taken any scenic pictures over the Easter holiday from the region that would look good on our Big Screen on the programme? Then send them in to me. Either send a hard copy in the post or send them electronically to the usual address. See you later on BBC1 and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
