Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news and of course Paul will be here with the detailed weather forecast. Also tonight, well have an update on the developments of the Lincoln City story - were expecting a statement from them today, the WI are set to shock us all in East Yorkshire and our special guest tonight will be Dave Willetts. Dave has wowed audiences both on Broadway and in the West End playing the role of Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical Phantom of the Opera. He will be with me on the programme, so I hope you can join me then.
Thank you very much indeed for all the emails after yesterdays letter on a variety of subjects. Ill mention just a few of them. Theres one here from June Fitz Gibbon. I was talking about Christmas presents of course yesterday. Five years ago, we agreed with our family and friends that we wouldnt give birthday or Christmas presents, thus saving time, money and the embarrassment of giving or receiving unwanted presents. The freedom of stress is wonderful. There is too much commercialism now at Christmas. If we see something during the year we think someone would like, we buy it then, but without the pressure of having to do so. June, thank you very much indeed for that one. I mentioned in the letter yesterday about watching Gillian McKeiths programme the other night on Channel 4 about the twelve foods she thinks we should avoid. Well, to be honest, once Id knocked the twelve out, there wasnt much left for me to eat! But I have been managing for three or four days now without eating any white bread, which is my New Years resolution and as you can probably tell, if youve heard me on the television, I sound like death warmed up at the moment and full of cold. So, so much for healthy eating! Anyway, this one comes from Nicola of Hedon and she says, I watched the Gillian McKeith Toxic Food Countdown and I have to say that scientifically she talks an awful lot of sense, but I have to wonder why she often looks stressed and drawn compared with the larger than life individuals for whom she prepares her own brand of diet! I wonder what Gillian ate over the festive season! There you are. Nicola, thank you very much indeed for that one. And just another one here, this one comes from Tim. He says, Can someone explain to me why they have to have extra Bank Holidays whenever Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day is on a Saturday or a Sunday? Surely itd make sense for employees to be given additional days leave that they can use at a time of the year when the nights are lighter and the weather a lot better? I think thats opening a whole new can of worms, but Tim, thank you very much indeed for that one. And finally, Sally Turner says, Talking of unwanted Christmas presents, let this be a warning. Only a couple of years ago, I bought a set of books for a present for somebody. I thought they were very nice autobiographies of some of the Eastenders cast. However, the following year, the person I bought them for had rewrapped them and gave them to my husband for a Christmas present. We were shocked, horrified and then found it very funny. The person had forgotten that we had given it to them. We never did say anything, but in future we bought the person things to eat. We never got those back! Sally, thank you very much indeed. Any more stories, then please do get in touch. Middle Classes I dont know if you see yourself as one of the middle classes, but I see that Jamie Oliver is the number one hero of the middle classes according to a style guide issued today. His crusade to improve school dinners has made him an idol of parents throughout Britain. The TV chef heads the top ten of influences on the middle classes published today. David Cameron is in second place and Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, comes third for his influential anti-poverty stance. So there you are. Something there for the middle classes! But once again, I think thats something we dont want to get into! Torvill and Dean I remember sitting up in the middle of the night waiting for them to skate. More than twenty-four million viewers watched along side me to see them skate to Olympic Gold twenty-two years ago. Now, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are returning to primetime TV after hitching their skates to the reality TV show bandwagon. The couple, whose performance of Ravels Bolero electrified the 1984 Winter Olympics, are reuniting on the ice rink for the first time in eight years to star in an ITV1 series called Dancing On Ice. Im great fans of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and the interesting thing is that all these years later, there was a picture in the paper twenty-two years on and Christopher Dean doesnt look any different at all! Four Wheel Drive This is also something else I dont want to get into after the stick I got from Paul before Christmas, but I learn that children are no safer riding in bulky 4x4 vehicles than in standard passenger cars, so say researchers. Everyone driving an ordinary car will be relieved to hear this. Safety advantages in their greater size and weight were found to be cancelled out by the fact that 4x4s are twice as likely to roll over in an accident. The study, sponsored by a childrens hospital and an insurance company, dispels the belief that bigger equals better, so say safety experts. So if you dont drive a four wheel drive vehicle, youll be pleased to hear that one. Well, thats it from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Dont forget if you want to drop me a line, then please do. I look forward to getting an email later today [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a good day, 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
