Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight for all the days news on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Paul will have the weather forecast as well. News tonight as well, if youre a keen flyer and like to take weekend breaks, well some news that might be of interest to you. Also tonight in the studio, Iain Rogerson! Youll remember him as Harry Flagg, the toilet cleaner in Coronation Street. Well, Iain is in Grimsby at the moment at the Auditorium for pantomime and hell be joining us in the studio tonight before he goes on stage at Grimsby Auditorium.
Weve got a busy week this week, because tomorrow night well have Lorraine Chase Luton airport youll remember her. She is now of course in Emmerdale. Shell be on the sofa with me and on Friday, Linda Barker will be in the studio. Three shows not to be missed this week in the run up to Christmas all on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Calendars As you know Ive been plugging the calendar in the Levy Letter for the last six weeks or so and Im really glad I have done, because weve now raised over £8000 for Children in Need. Well, youve raised over £8000 for Children In Need by buying all these calendars! As you can imagine, to reach that sort of figure when the calendars are only on sale for £5, well weve sold an awful lot of calendars! So thank you very much if youve bought one. If you havent, well theres still time left to get one for Christmas and for the New Year. In the meantime if youve bought one, thank you very much indeed. Guests Dont forget if theres someone youd like to see on the sofa with me on the programme in the New Year, then drop me an email and let me know. The usual address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few suggestions these last couple of weeks for people who do music locally, so thank you very much indeed for those. And one of the guests we had on the programme during the year, but not in the studio, but in our London studio ahead of his concert in our part of the world, which in the end got cancelled, was Aled Jones. Poor old Aled hasnt had a very good year. Well, hes had a very good year, because hes been very busy, but he had to cancel a concert, because he wasnt very well back in the summer when he was due to be appearing at Nostel Priory with Katherine Jenkins. There was a nice story in the paper this morning (hes got a great sense of humour has Aled Jones), he suffered the ignominy of being mistaken for Daniel ODonnell, whos ten years his senior! Aled is thirty-four. He was ! doing Songs of Praise in Blackpool, when he was accosted in the street by a young woman who told him that Aled was his friends favourite singer and she asked if she could have a photo taken with him. Of course Aled said yes and they both grinned at the camera and afterwards she walked back to her friends. But as she walked away, Aled heard her say, I cant believe Ive just had my photo taken with Daniel ODonnell! Aled said he nearly died of embarrassment! Great chap is Aled Jones. Really nice guy and I know hes coming back to do a concert in Hull in the early part of next year. Lets hope we can get him on the programme. I Dont Believe It Ive heard some Christmas stories this year about we cant say this, we cant do this or we cant say that, because of political correctness. But youve probably read about all this in the paper. But this one is a new one on me. Ive never heard this before and I just think this is completely barking. It happened in a store and of course I wont mention which one in Yorkshire, but young people are banned from buying Christmas crackers, because they contain gun powder. This is the latest case of the nanny state interfering when a mother of three, Natasha, tried to buy a box of Christmas crackers. Natasha, who is thirty-two, explained, I was putting my shopping through when the till started beeping. The gentleman at the checkout asked me for some ID. I gave him my drivers licence and asked him why he needed it. He said he needed to verify my age before allowing me to take the crackers! I just started laughing as it seemed silly and ridiculous. He said that the check was becau! se they deemed crackers dangerous objects, because they contain gunpowder! It is stupid. Whos going to go through crackers to get the gunpowder or use them to cause harm? So there you are, thats the latest one on the PC front! Chocolate If youre a chocolate lover, then listen to this one, because itll make you feel better for Christmas and for Easter and indeed for the whole year! Dark chocolate, every day, would help stave off heart disease say researchers. Just six pieces are said to prevent the arteries getting clogged with fat. Doctors in Zurich believe that antioxidants in cocoa help the blood flow freely, but it only works with dark chocolate made with cocoa solids. So its not milk or white chocolate, but dark chocolate is what you need and then your conscience will be free. The study published in the medical journal Heart, took twenty male smokers and asked half of them to eat forty grams of dark chocolate a day, while the other half were asked to eat white chocolate. Two hours after the participants had eaten the chocolate, they underwent ultra sound scans. The team from the University hospital found that the men who ate dark chocolate had much better flow of blood through their arteries. So if y! oure going to buy chocolate, then get dark chocolate, although I know not everyone likes it, but it is good for you! On that happy note, I shall leave it for today. Have a very good day. Join me tonight if you can on BBC1 at 6.30pm. And of course, look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow. If you know someone who hasnt got a Levy Letter, whos not signed up, then direct them to the two addresses at the bottom of the screen, click on Levy Letter and follow the instructions through. 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.
