Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. The weekend is nearly here. Whatever youve got planned, then I hope it goes well. If youre in the Barton-upon-Humber area, then Ill be there in the morning to open an Autumn Fair in aid of the RNLI, so hope to see you there!
Last night on the programme, I was talking to the comedienne Joan Rivers. Joan has been very much in the news this week when the genteel calm of Radio 4s mid-week programme was shattered by a row between Joan and the outspoken broadcaster Darcus Howell. The pair clashed on the normally placid radio show after Howell suggested that Rivers had a problem with the term black. The American star responded by screaming at Howell and calling him a son of a bitch! Well the slanging match went on for two minutes until the presenter stepped in, so of course I was quite nervous about meeting Joan last night. Anyway Joan was great on the programme last night. Just looking ahead to tonight, BBC1 6.30pm for all the days news. I hope you will be able to join me. Also joining me tonight is the former England manager and vice-president of Scunthorpe football team, Graham Taylor. Hell be talking to me tonight about his love for the game and his passion for Scunthorpe! You Couldnt Make It Up Well, after a miserable camping trip in a tent that let in the wind and the rain, one Ian McConachie decided the tent had to go, but instead of putting it in the skip or in the wheelie bin, he put it up for auction instead on one of the internet auction sites. His brutally funny sales pitch has attracted a staggering 47,000 hits on the website, with people interested in a tent that leaked! And the tent has now sold. It had a starting price of 99p and it was sold to a buyer for £360! Somebody has bought a tent that leaks for £360 on the internet auction site and of course it had to be an American. As I say you couldnt make it up! Time I was talking earlier in the week about the amount of time we spend in our life doing various everyday tasks. I see that smokers waste a month a year taking breaks at work, it was revealed yesterday. Their four ten minute stoppages every day cost employers one hundred and fifty-eight hours each year or four and a half weeks. This amounts to seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six hours during an average smokers working life, which adds up to almost a year spent puffing away. So there you, if youre a smoker, of course, youll be incensed by that. If not, then Im sure youll have little sympathy. 20% of smokers blamed job stress for their inability to kick the habit and 12% said they couldnt quit when work colleagues were puffing away. Well thats not the case anymore is it, because no ones allowed to smoke around each other? There are now special smoking areas or people stand by the back door. Anyway, if you have a view on smoking, then do get in touch with me on that! or on anything else, on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat Show I was saying earlier in the week that Noel Edmonds is returning to TV to do a quiz on Channel Five I think it is. Well, now Ive read that Davina McCall is set to become the BBCs first ever female television chat show host and will earn a million pounds a year. The promotion comes despite the low ratings for her Saturday night show Hes Having a Baby. Executives hope that Davina and mother of two will prove a hit with women viewers and be less jokey and sarcastic than the main chat show host rival Jonathan Ross. So there you are, Davina McCall, the new chat show host on the TV and for the BBC. Dieting I see that Britains biggest chocolate bar maker has taken the wraps off new packaging in order to help stop obesity. King size Mars and Snickers bars will have wrappers that will enable them to be broken in half easily, allowing chocoholics to save part of the bar for later. The sweets, due to be launched next year, will have diagrams explaining how to break the chocolate bar in half and will be boosted by an advertising campaign. There you are, thats for chocoholics, who dont want to eat their chocolate all in one go. Perhaps this also should have come under the heading of You Couldnt Make It Up! Birthdays This one comes from Julie Brooke. She says, Could you please wish my Mum, Dorothea Craggs from Cottingham, a very happy birthday on Friday, 21st October. I look forward to taking her and my father out to lunch on Friday. Julie thank you very much and Dorothea happy birthday and have a very lovely day. Waiters I was talking earlier in the week about waiters and how to annoy them. If you want to get good service, then clicking your fingers is the worst possible thing for you to do. Paul writes in from Great Grimsby he says, In your letter, you talk about not getting the service you deserve if you give a waiter a hard time. I have to say that I find the standard of service in most of our restaurants and for that matter in shops as well, at an all time low. Compared with the States where service and being pleasant to the customer is paramount, I think were given very shoddy treatment over here. Are you a waiter or are you a waitress? Do you have a view on that one? Get in touch. Pictures Dont forget if youve got a news story or something which youve got pictures of that you think would be interesting to see on Look North. You may have taken them on your mobile phone or maybe on your video camera, then get in touch with me, give me a telephone number and well get the pictures from you and they might be shown on the TV. And of course, as ever, you can write to me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, join me tonight BBC1 at 6.30pm. Have a very good weekend and look out for your Levy Letter on Monday. Bye for now. 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.
