Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm as usual for all the days news.
Tomorrow, the best fish and chip shop in the country will be announced. There are about ten finalists that will be unveiled today. But can you believe that none of them are in Yorkshire at all. Can you believe that? No fish and chip shops in Yorkshire are in the final list of ten. But there is one in Lincolnshire. All will be revealed as I talk to the man, who was voted Yorkshire man of the year last year, the celebrity chef, Brian Turner. Ill be talking to Brian on the programme tonight. Ill have the latest on the X1 bus story. Theres been a meeting this morning and Ill be speaking to Grimsby MP, Austin Mitchell, about the latest developments on this story. Ill also be looking at the new craze in our region. After the recent success of ITVs Dancing on Ice, the number of skaters at Grimsby ice rink has soared. And Ill also have the detailed weather forecast as well, so I hope you can join me then. Pictures Dont forget if youve got a picture for our Big Screen, a nice local view that you think is worthy of putting on for our Look North audience to see, then send it to me. You can either do this electronically or send me a hard copy in the post. Or if there are any other pictures unusual road signs were something we got onto last week or any pictures that you think I should see, then send it to me. Of course, my address that you can get me on any time, is [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Hurt Just briefly, Id like to say thank you to all those people who have written in to say how much they enjoyed the interview we did with John Hurt from last Friday on the programme. Hes such an interesting character, John Hurt. There are pages and pages in his CV. Hes done loads of work and has won loads of awards. Hes been brought up for many years in Grimsby. Indeed, his father was a vicar of a church near Cleethorpes. John Hurt came into the studio last Friday, because he was getting an honorary doctorate at the University of Hull. What a lovely man he was. And if you want to see that interview again in full, you can go to the bbc.co.uk/humber website, where the interview is posted. You can watch it again, or if you missed it, then watch it for the first time and have a look. Food As you know, we got onto the subject of food in some detail over the past three weeks in the first three weeks of this New Year, with me following a healthy eating regime. So I was interested in reading this article, which talked about the urgent warning about the danger of too much salt in Indian and Chinese takeaways, which was issued yesterday. Experts warned some meals had been found to contain three times as much salt as an adult should consume in an entire day. The findings prompted campaigners to call for the worst examples to carry health warnings that salt can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. Food and drink manufacturers have made big strides to reduce the amount of salt in their products, but far less attention has been paid to salt in restaurant and takeaway food, described by campaigners as a hidden killer. So there you are. Some of the worst offenders are chicken in cashew nuts in a yellow bean sauce with 15.75 grams of salt, chicken with pi! neapple and cashew nuts with 6.65 grams of salt, chicken satay with special chicken fried rice with 6.1 grams of salt. So there you are. Is nothing good for us anymore? Meanwhile, I continue with my raisons, porridge, sunflower seeds, and poppy and pine seeds is it working? Well, thats a very good question. I think so. Humour This is quite an interesting one this. When you read the little personal ads in the paper, you see things like GSOH, which always comes up doesnt it? Ive got a good sense of humour or Im looking for someone with a good sense of humour. Its not quite as straight forward as wed thought though. It seems that laughter doesnt work the same way for both sexes. While women admit to regularly being drawn to men who make them laugh, men find women who are funny a turn off. Scientists reached this conclusion after studying the dating behaviour of hundreds of twenty-somethings. The research showed that men feel threatened by wise-cracking women. Men see being funny as a male thing. When being forced to choose between humour-production and humour-appreciation in potential partners, women valued humour-production, whilst men looked for receptivity to their own humour. Probably no surprises there then! Food Again! Back to food again, and I see that several Royal chefs have been speaking out about the food that the Queen likes and that the Queen has served for her ordinary day to day meals. Not for banquets, but just on a daily basis. And are we interested? Well, the first course for dinner is often soup or a salad, followed by a main course of lamb chops or salmon. Pudding is mint ice cream or her favourite is bread and butter pudding. Ooh, I like bread and butter pudding. The Queen wont have anything but the tiniest of portions. Her favourite is haddock or Royal fish fingers - pieces of pan-fried haddock dipped in flour and egg and bread crumbs. For afternoon tea, the high point of the day, cucumber sandwiches, with the corners cut off, nice biscuits, scones, potted shrimps and two types of tea cake. She likes her tea strong and before dinner she likes a dry martini, shaken not stirred with a twist of lemon. She also has a pleasingly low-brow passion for Terrys Twilight chocolates ! and also a glass or two of German white wine. As for her pet hates, she detests tomato pips, which get stuck in her teeth and these all have to be carefully removed by the chefs before serving. So no tomato pips! Curry and other spicy foods are also out, as is garlic, which she fears will leave her with bad breath. She insists that leftovers are eaten the next day, so on Mondays, shell be eating the same sort of meals that the rest of her subjects will be having like shepherds pie, cottage pie, rissoles and bubble and squeak! Painting Competition Dont forget weve got a painting competition on at the moment. Theres plenty of time to get your entries in. Either paint or draw the Humber Bridge. When youve finished it, then take a picture of it and send it in. Dont send your original drawing or painting in. If youve got a finished piece, or if youre in the process of completing it, then we look forward to receiving it. This is all part of the 25th birthday celebrations of the Humber Bridge and several people have asked when Katherine Jenkins is going to be on the show. Well, shes going to be on tomorrow night on Wednesday ahead of a big concert in the summer, where shell be singing at the Humber Bridge country park. So if youre a fan of Katherine and I see her album is still right up there in the top selling albums, then join me on the programme tomorrow night. Well, thats it from me for today. Enjoy your Tuesday. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow. 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. 1.94.4
