Hello and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and also Paul will have the forecast.
And on the subject of petrol - its hard to believe that were paying £4.37 for a gallon of petrol. Thats how the papers put it this morning. Thats one of the subjects that well be talking about on the programme. Ahead of the bank holiday weekend, Im sure many of you have plans to travel, perhaps to see friends or family further afield. Well, Ill be looking into the impact rising fuel prices will have on us all as consumers. Ill be speaking to the Petrol Retailers Association, who are warning us that weve got a long summer of rising fuel prices ahead of us. Im sure that many of you are worried about this one. Join me tonight for more on this story. Well, I had so much response from you on the problem of refuse collections in North Lincolnshire. Even people, who dont live in the North Lincolnshire area had comments to make about this one. Lots of you have been saying how difficult youre finding it with a collection only every two weeks, and youre all reporting having too much rubbish to fit in your bin even after recycling. Well, well be rifling through some of your bins to see if youre recycling everything you can. Your comments on this gratefully received of course. Id especially like to hear from you if youre actually liking the new system of different coloured bins for different items of rubbish and if you like having a collection every fortnight. Get in touch to the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of our reporters, Linsey Smith, is an East Hull girl born and bred. Tonight, shell be returning to one of her favourite childhood haunts East Park. Its just had ten million pounds spent on refurbishment and development and Linsey will have a sneak preview for us before its due to re-open. And my special guest tonight is the wonderful actress, Linda Robson. Youll know her from the long running sitcom Birds Of A Feather. Linda is coming over to see us in Grimsby and Ill be talking to her tonight. So a busy show tonight. Please get in touch with me with any of your comments or thoughts on any of the stories were looking at tonight. Plus, if theres a story that you know that you think wed be interested to hear about, then get in touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Whitfield Earlier in the week, I was talking about the fifties singing star, David Whitfield. Well, the recording of Hulls entertainer, David Whitfield, will appear on the World Cup single, which is just about to be released on Monday. Its a version of Land Of Hope And Glory sung by the tenor in the 1970s and it goes on sale on Monday. David Whitfield had several number one hits in the seventies and died from a brain haemorrhage in 1980. Hes had a rose garden in Bourne Street in Hull planted in his memory and a street named after him off Hawthorne Avenue in West Hull. Any memories of David Whitfield of course are gratefully received. Id love to hear from you. Levy Letter If, over the weekend, youre talking to someone, who doesnt get a Levy Letter and you think they would like one, then point them in the direction of one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. Get them to go to those, and then click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions through and theyll get their first letter on Tuesday of next week. Gadgets We buy them once and then we forget about them. We spend about £2 billion pounds a year buying things that we never actually use. The sort of things that Im talking about foot spas, ice cream makers, exercise bikes, electric fans, keep-fit videos, fondue sets, back massagers, game boys and also the famous (burn your mouth!) sandwich maker. Those are the things that we buy and then never actually use. And we spend £2 billion pounds a year on those every year. Thats extraordinary isnt it? What sort of gadgets have you bought and never used? Designer Goods Well, upmarket shoppers have often traditionally turned their noses up at fake designer goods, but it seems that the days of lowbrow market traders offering second rate copies are gone. Some copycat designer label merchandise is so close to the original that even the well-heeled customers, who have enough money to buy the real thing, are being tempted by the low prices, according to research. The study of more than a thousand UK shoppers found that many designer goods are copied and theyre such a good copy that even those, who can afford to buy the real things, decide to go for a copy or a fake to save themselves a bob or two! Well, Ill keep it short today. Have a very good Friday afternoon. I hope you manage to get outside and enjoy this lovely weather and of course I hope it lasts for this bank holiday weekend. Enjoy your weekend. Thanks for reading the Levy Letter all week and for all your emails that youve sent in. Keep them coming in. Let me know if you do anything nice over the weekend. Look out for your Levy Letter on Tuesday, after the May Day bank holiday and I hope you can join me on BBC1 for tonights Look North. 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
