Hello, it’s Peter here and welcome to the start of another week. I hope your 
weekend went well! I’m looking forward to being with you again tonight BBC1 at 
6.30pm for all the day’s news. Also, our guest on the programme tonight is the 
singer made famous with the song ‘Pearl’s A Singer’ – Elkie Brooks! I’ll be 
talking to Elkie, there’ll be the rest of the day’s news and of course Paul 
will be there with the weather, all on BBC1 at 6.30pm!

Thank you for all the emails over the past couple of days. It’s been a very 
busy time indeed. Thank you for those. If you want to drop me a line, of course 
you can get me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


Fake Smiles

Well, it’s the art that every celebrity has to master, and that’s the art of 
smiling even if you don’t really feel like smiling and faking it! I see there 
is a survey out – a list of the top ten fake smilers in this country. Victoria 
Beckham is the number one, and at number two is Tony Blair. Apparently, we 
don’t think his smile is genuine. Robert Kilroy Silk is number three, Prince 
Charles’ fake smile is at number four and Dale Winton, that’s quite a surprise, 
he’s at number five of fake smilers. 


Retirement

Now, taking early retirement is often seen as the key to a long and happy 
existence freed from the stresses of work. Your health improves, your spirits 
lift and you can enjoy a carefree life of leisure. Well, that’s the theory, but 
research suggests that quitting the rat race at fifty-five may actually do more 
harm than good. The study has found that those, who retire at fifty-five are 
almost twice more likely to die in the next ten years than those who stay at 
their jobs, experts say. The findings show how work can help you keep healthy 
and young and also stresses the importance of insuring retirement does not 
simply signal a life of boredom and loneliness. So there you are, if you want 
to live longer then carry on working after the age of fifty-five and don’t take 
early retirement! 


Rude City

Whenever there is a tag for something about a city, I always watch very 
carefully because on recent trends Hull is often in there getting slated for 
something or other. There’s a survey out for our rudest cities and Birmingham 
comes out top! Birmingham has just received a far less welcomed claim to fame – 
it’s the rudest city in the UK. Cities have been voted the rudest in Britain 
after undercover researchers had been sent in to test the politeness of 
passers-by. They measured the locals’ politeness by dropping bags of shopping 
to see whether anyone would pick them up and listening for whether shop 
assistants said please or thank you. I think on this one Hull should come out 
on top for being the friendliest as everyone always says how polite and 
friendly people are around here. Anyway, Birmingham is the rudest city, number 
two was Edinburgh, and Exeter was the third, followed by Cardiff, then London 
and Southampton. No towns or cities in our area were mentioned in that surve!
 y at all, which was great news for us!


RNLI

Thanks to everyone who turned out to support the Royal National Lifeboat 
Institution on Saturday morning. I was in Barton to open an Autumn Fair. Lots 
of people turned out and I met lots of people who had signed up for the Levy 
Letter. So thanks to those people who came along and we raised a lot of money 
for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, so thank you very much for all 
your support. And I managed to buy some Christmas cards – the first Christmas 
purchase of the year!


Leave it to Levy

If you’ve got any problems or issues that you think we may be able to tackle on 
the programme and sort out for you, then let me know the details, give me a 
contact telephone number as well, and just drop me an email and we’ll see what 
we can do! The address is of course as usual, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And we’ll have 
another Leave it to Levy this week on the programme, so look out for that.


Guests

I always like to know who you’d like to see on the sofa as a guest on the 
programme in the evening, so please any suggestion for a guest or indeed a 
story that you’d like us to do, then get in touch with me as soon as possible. 


Well, that’s all from me for today. Enjoy your week and join me tonight on BBC1 
at 6.30pm 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

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