Hello, its Peter here. I hope your day is going well and I hope your weekend was good and youre now rested and ready for the start of another week. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and of course watch out for your Levy Letter all day this week.
Tonight, well have all the days news and Lisa will have the forecast. And if you used to watch the programme, Drop The Dead Donkey, which of course was based on a TV newsroom, then one of the stars of the show, who played Gus, the boss of the news operation, is actor Robert Duncan and Ill be talking to him tonight on the programme. Also tonight, well be investigating one of our regions biggest mysteries! Well be looking at the Big Cat sightings near Skegness. I hope you can join me then. Australian Breakfast Thanks very much indeed to everyone, who came along to the Australian Breakfast yesterday at the Lawns visitor centre in Lincoln. I met hundreds of people, who came along, many of which read the Levy Letter, so thank you very much indeed. A lot of money was raised for three charities, including for BBC Radio Lincolnshires Gold appeal, so well done to everyone who came along. There was a great atmosphere, so well done to the City Council and to BBC Radio Lincolnshire. It was great to see and meet for the first time, Gillian Merron, the MP. Ive interviewed Gillian many times on the programme, but got to meet her in person as Gillian was serving up the breakfasts and clearing away the plates yesterday morning. What a great sport! So, well done to Gillian and thanks to everyone, who came along. I hope you all enjoyed yourself. Shopping A study has revealed that shop music has an effect on its customers as the sound of Mozart is music to our ears. Mozart is of course celebrating a big anniversary this year. While the music, being played in stores across our region at the moment, may not be to everyone tastes, experts suggest that it can have a profound effect on customers. Research has been carried out detailing the links between the tempo and the style of music being played in stores, often called Muzak. This affects peoples spending habits and the speed at which they shop. Well, thats interesting isnt it? The study showed that the speed of music being played in restaurants affects the time spent by diners eating. Fast paced music reduced the eating time by an average of ten minutes and music of medium tempo would cause drink purchases to rise threefold! Music of a slow tempo, used in shopping centres and stores, has been proved to make shoppers linger longer over both products and adverts alike, making! music good, researchers claim, for increasing profits! So there you are. So when youre listening to the music, its carefully selected to make sure they get the best out of your pocket! Diet Well as you know, Im following a diet at the moment. A healthy eating regime! So its music to my ears and makes me feel guilt free when I read that the more fruit and vegetables that you eat, the less likely you are to have a stroke, doctors have discovered. Eating more than five portions a day, recommended by the Government, cuts the risk of a stroke by a remarkable 26%! Thats incredible! That means that nearly forty thousand patients a year could be saved from death or severe disability by just a simple change in diet. Those figures are remarkable arent they? The health benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables have long since been known, but what is new is that for the first time, Doctors have quantified the impact. So there you are. So if youre eating your fresh fruit and veg, then youve got nothing to worry about. If youre not, then start eating them! Levy Letter Dont forget if youve got a friend or family member, whos not signed up to the Levy Letter and you think they would like one on a daily basis, then point them in the direction of either one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page bbc.co.uk/humber and bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire. Go to that, click on Levy Letter, follow the instructions through and get them signed up for their daily Levy Letter. If they sign up tonight, then they will get their first Levy Letter tomorrow. Also dont forget to keep your pictures and photographs coming in for our Big Screen on Look North every evening. Also, if you want to get in touch with me about anything, then its [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Text Messages Now text messages, from next week, can be sent to landline telephones and they will be read out by a familiar voice the former Doctor Who, Tom Baker. I am the Doctor! The actor, who also narrates the BBC comedy Little Britain, has been hired by British Telecom to help raise awareness of the service, which lets people send and receive text messages from their home phone. Currently, a text message, sent to a landline, is currently read out by an anonymous voice, but from next Tuesday the voice will change. In a recent poll of celebrities, 72 year old Tom Baker, who also stars in Monarch of the Glen, was voted the fourth most recognisable voice behind the Queen, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. Thats incredible isnt it? Tom Baker the fourth most recognisable voice between the Queen, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. One of the reasons that hes so well known must be because hes doing the narrations for the Little Britain series and the actor, who delighted whole gener! ations of children in the 1970s with the BBCs eccentric time-travelling hero, Doctor Who, spent eleven days recording every sound in the English language. Instead of recording specific words, he spoke 11,593 phrases. Can you believe that? Anyway, the Tom Baker speech text service is where messages can be sent from UK mobile networks in this country from next week. So there you are. The voice of the texting will be Tom Baker, the fourth most recognisable voice in the UK. Acupuncture I cant believe how many people have asked me about this, since I had acupuncture on the programme. Having said that I suffer from insomnia, I cant believe how many of you are asking whether it worked or not. Well, all I can say is that for the last two or three nights, I have certainly slept better. And whether thats just pure coincidence, or whether its all in the mind or not, or whether it really does work, I dont know. And maybe its too early to tell, but everyone wanted to know if it worked. So thats my summing up of the situation. And also, people are wanting to know if it hurt. Well, it didnt hurt at all. The only thing I had was a bit of a headache after I had it done, but it doesnt hurt at all. If anyone else is getting acupuncture at the moment, or getting some joy from it, then do let me know. I would be very interested in hearing about it. Well, thats all from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm on the programme and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow. Take care, thanks for reading! 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