Hello, welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. Our last Levy Letter before Christmas. I hope your day is going well. If youre going to the shops today, then poor you, because the rumours are today is going to be pretty awful! It was pretty grim yesterday lunchtime. So if youre shopping today, then you have my sympathy! But I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news in Fridays Look North. And tonight well be having the final part of our Christmas Dinner feature and also tonight, I shall be talking to Linda Barker - The Changing Rooms star and home interior designer, who spends a lot of time in East Yorkshire and is a good friend of the programme now. Linda Barker will be on the sofa tonight.
Just a quick note here from Nicola, she says, My dearest and my most loyal friend over the years has now signed up to the Levy Letter. Hes a lovely gentleman and lives in Badlaasphe in Germany. Could you please welcome him to the newsletter. Hes very interested in all that happens in our region and reads everything thats on the BBC Humber Look North webpage. His name is Andreas Mainka. So welcome to Andreas and Nicola, thank you very much indeed for your note! Calendar Just a final little mention and my thanks to everyone who has bought a calendar over the last few months. As you know, weve raised over £8000 for Children In Need through the sale of the calendar. It really is extraordinary. Just over £8000, well over three thousand calendars sold. If youve bought one, then thank you very much indeed. A lot of money raised, by you, for Children In Need. So, I am most grateful to you all! Lost Dog After the note yesterday about the little lost Yorkshire Terrier in Market Weighton, we got a note here from Tracy, who works at a Vets. She says, Can you pass this on or let the lady who lost her dog know that, if she has not already done so, to ring all the vets in the area including her own and check to see whether or not they have had the dog handed in. Most vets should log her details in a lost and found book. Also to try local dog rescue centres, the council dog warden, the RSPCA, and possibly the local police station. Although, if she has had her dog micro-chipped and it is handed in, she would hear from Petlog or Tracer depending on who the details are logged with. If the dog is not micro-chipped and she is lucky enough to get it back, I would suggest she gets it done, it saves so much time and lessens the distress of the animal. So no news yet on the lost Yorkshire Terrier in Market Weighton, but good advice there from Tracy, so thank you very much for your note! . Aircraft Seating Well, for airport regulars it is a familiar and often exacerbating rigmarole. After being given your seat number in check-in, youve then got to wait in the departure lounge to be called. Then you go out to the plane, often in two sets of numbers, only to find you cant get sat down, because somebody is shoving something in an overhead locker and a flustered family are shuffling down the aisle. But now scientists have proved what passengers suspected for years - boarding by seat numbers is a waste of time. Using Einsteins theory of relativity, they worked out that it is far more efficient to follow the example of low cost carriers and leave it up to passengers to sit where they like on a first come first served basis. Even if airlines feel their passengers would prefer to be assigned a seat rather than face a free for all, they would be better off abandoning the back to front boarding system in favour of window seats first approach. So there you are, remember that next time! youre given a seating number if youre lucky enough this Christmas to be going away. TV I see the television companies have been praised to the hilt this year, both BBC and ITV, for the wonderful patterns theyve put together in the schedules over Christmas time. No repeats, none of the usual old favourites, but all brand new programmes. I dont know what your TV highlights are over Christmas, but Ive just been looking at some of the programmes here. It doesnt look like a bad line up at all. I would like to point you in the direction though of Outtake TV on Boxing Night on BBC1 at 8.30pm. I think theres something on there that will cause me acute embarrassment in front of my family. So there you are, BBC1 at 8.30pm on Boxing Day, theres something on that you might not want to miss! Men Can Dance Something Ive never been able to do, never wanted to do, cant do and have no interest, but it seems the reason that women find a good dancer irresistible is not just something in the way he moves, but it appears that men who can strut their stuff have better body symmetry than those cursed with the proverbial two left feet, according to a scientific study. Body symmetry is something that woman often subconsciously seek in a potential mate. The study also sheds new light on the importance of dancing in human courtship, which was something that Charles Darwin himself noted in his work on the evolution of man. So there you are, if you want to get the ladies, then dancing is crucial! I think its a little bit late for me to start now, but nevertheless another bizarre story which appears in the news just at the moment. Well, Im going to leave it there. Short and sweet today. Im sure youre very busy. Just finally, just to say, that I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Therell be no Levy Letter now until the 3rd January 2006 when well be back to normal! Thank you for all the support youve given this year, for signing up and reading the Levy Letter and thank you for writing, emailing, phoning and texting in. To you and yours this Christmas, all the very best! Have a lovely time, particularly to all those who are on their own this Christmas, then thinking of you and I wish you all the very best. I do hope that you have a very happy New Year. As I say, look out for the first Levy Letter in the New Year on the 3rd January! All the very best. Happy Christmas! 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.
