Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and that youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Well have all the days news, well be talking about the police and also, I mentioned in the Levy Letter a few weeks ago that Des Lynam is to take over Countdown from Richard Whiteley. Well, the man himself will be joining us on the programme. Des Lynam will be joining us at 6.30pm tonight!
Letters Let me just look at some of the emails in today. Dear Peter, I look forward to receiving your Levy Letter each day. Id like you to wish my daughter, Lynne, a very happy 50th birthday on the 27th next Thursday. She lives in Newport in Shropshire and as I dont see her very often, Id like her to know that were thinking of her. And that comes from J. Fowles. So thank you very much for that. And of course Lynne gets the Levy Letter every day, so Lynne happy birthday and a happy 50th! I know how you feel!! Have a very lovely day. Peter, we enjoy the show every night, but just a suggestion for a guest on the sofa Michael Buble, who will be at the Sheffield Arena in November. My wife and I went to see him last year and he was great. That comes from Barry Worsnop. Barry, thank you very much indeed and well see what we can do as far as Michael Buble is concerned. Also, Its my birthday today on the 27th! This comes from Edna Turner from Barton-upon-Humber. Its my birthday and it would really make my day if you could give me a mention. I will be 61! We watch every night! Edna, thank you for that and a very happy birthday! Thanks for signing up for the Levy Letter. Happy Birthday and have a really lovely day. And just one final thing. I mentioned that if you have a firework display coming up and you want a little mention on the Levy Letter then do get in touch. Theres one here, the Northern Area Committee is holding a free fireworks display for residents on the Dane Park playing fields on the 5th of November. Therell be childrens rides and refreshments available in the late afternoon. The display starts at 7.30pm. So thank you very much for that one and enjoy! If youve got an organised bonfire coming up and you want a mention in the Levy Letter, then do get in touch. You can write to me, of course about anything, the usual address to get me direct is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Life We were talking last night on the programme about food, about sausages and scampi and I see that thirty years after Tom and Barbara in the Good Life, first talked about self-sufficiency in suburbia, a new survey shows that millions grow vegetables in their gardens just like Tom and Barbara according to new figures. Others make their own clothing and even their own beer and wine. It was seen as eccentric British behaviour when the programme was first aired in 1975, but the ideals of the show have now hit home with the nations environmentally-aware middle-classes. The survey shows that 40% now grow their own vegetables as more families believe that organic food is healthier. And talking of healthier, families are turning their back on margarine and other spreads as concerns grow about the dangers of eating heavily processed foods. Instead more and more of us are rediscovering butter, which they see as a more natural alternative. Its funny isnt it, that at one time, these sp! reads were a natural alternative. Anyway, thanks to the rise of these easily spreadable versions, butter is increasingly seen as a convenient option. That was the thing that we never liked about butter wasnt it, that you could never actually spread it! So there you are, sales of butter are on the increase. Calendar The BBC Look North Children in Need Calendar for 2006 has arrived. Now you can pick up the calendar from the BBCs receptions in Hull, Grimsby and Lincoln and also on the BBC buses the Radio Lincolnshire and Radio Humberside buses as they travel throughout the region. The calendars are £5 each, with lots of your pictures to go with every month of beautiful scenic views from around our region and of course some pictures of me and Paul! If you want to send off for one, then send the cheque made payable to the BBC and they are £6 to cover postage and packing. So its £5 if youre calling in to pick one up or its £6 if youre sending off a cheque made payable to the BBC. The address to send your cheques to is BBC Look North Calendar, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Of course all the proceeds are going to a very worthy cause, Children In Need. And I hope to be able to tell you all, around Christmas time, just how much money the calendar has raised for Children in ! Need. TV Awards I dont know if you sat through the TV Awards last night on the television, but the revamped BBC1 series Doctor Who swept the board! It won all three of the categories it was nominated in with the most popular actor going to Christopher Eccleston and most popular actress to Billie Piper and also they received the most popular drama award. For the most popular comedy programme, well Little Britain of course won that. I have to say Im quite a fan of Little Britain. The most popular entertainment programme The X Factor, (I could take it or leave it!) the most popular reality programme Big Brother, which bores me rigid I have to say! And just one final one here from the list, the most popular daytime programme thats the Paul OGrady Show. He, of course, does a wonderful job, so well done to him. So there you are, those were the results from the TV Awards last night. Photographs Dont forget were still looking for photographs for the Big Screen. We get more and more through every day. The more unusual the pictures, the better really. We had a picture on the Big Screen last week of a bulldozer pulling down the Northern Foods building. I turned my nose up when I first saw that, because I didnt think it was really a scenic view of our region! Then my colleague said no, stick it in, its a little bit different. So if youve got a photograph thats a little bit different, the more unusual the better, then put it in the post or email it off to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, thats it from me for today. Enjoy your day and join me for tonights programme at the usual time of 6.30pm on BBC1. And special guest tonight is the legendary Des Lynam. Have a good day and look out for you Levy Letter tomorrow. Bye 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.
