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. Paul will have the forecast. Also tonight, well have all the days news and amongst my guests, will be a comedian from Lincoln and also Sir Bernard Ingham, the former Press Secretary for Margaret Thatcher. Hell be talking to me ahead of a new musical, which is being staged, all about the life of Margaret Thatcher. Sir Bernard Ingham will be talking to me tonight at 6.30pm. Also tonight, Ill be looking at the dentist crisis in our region. Ive read so many of your emails saying how difficult it is to get registered with an NHS dentist. Well, Ill be speaking with dentists about their views on the dental service in chaos. I hope youll be able to join me tonight.
Chip and Pin Do you remember last week, I was talking in the Levy Letter and also on Look North about Chip and Pin and the fact that very soon, on Valentines Day, well no longer be able to sign for our goods if we cant remember our Pin number. Just a little follow on from that. A bank yesterday apologised profusely for sending out hundreds of leaflets on the Chip and Pin services with the wrong telephone number that led directly to a sex line! A spokesman for the Royal Bank of Scotland said that it was aware of only two complaints! So there you are. As the headline in the paper said Chip and Sin! Thanks for the emails on the subject of cold calls, not just on the phone, but at the door as well. Theres a note here from Dorothy Jones, she says, Anyone can get this service. All the details are set out in the front of the telephone directory. It takes several weeks for it to become effective, but once in place it makes life simpler. The only calls it cant monitor are those from call centres abroad, but it gets rid of most of the others and if any do get through, the thing to do is to stop the caller mid-flow and say that you belong to the Telephone Preference Service and that does the trick! So thank you very much for that one Dorothy. And one here from Bob, he says, The Telephone Preference Service can be accessed via www.tpsonline.org.uk. Registration can be done online very simply. Or you can ring 0845 070 0707. It takes about twenty-eight days for all the relevant information to get onto the various lists. So thank you very much indeed to everyone, who has helped out with that one. Grimsby Dont forget, weve got something, which were calling the Sofa Tour, where we take a sofa around the region and hopefully get to meet as many people as possible. The first Sofa Tour comes to Grimsby this Thursday between 11am and 1pm. Paul and I will be there. If you can make it down to the Freshney Place shopping centre on Thursday, then I look forward to seeing you there between 11am and 1pm. And just another little note for your diary if youre anywhere near the Waterside Shopping Centre in Lincoln a week on Thursday, then Paul and I will be there again between 11am and 1pm! If you can make it along, then it would be great to see you! There you are - Grimsby this Thursday and then Lincoln, the Thursday after. Photographs Dont forget keep the photographs coming in. Any good views that youve got that you could send in. You could see it blown up right on the TV screen one night and of course get a mention as well! Please send your photos in to me. If youd like to post them in to me, then the address is Peter Levy, BBC Look North, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Or if you want to email your pictures, then its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sleep As you know, insomnia has been in the Levy Letter and on the programme just recently after I mentioned that I have trouble sleeping sometimes. I had numerous emails on that subject after I was talking about acupuncture on the programme. Many people have been asking whether it actually worked or not, and I said, a few weeks ago, that it did help a bit. I was interested to read that we will soon be able to take a pill that will not only give us a full nights sleep, but will also give us vivid dreams as well. Scientists have discovered the revolutionary sleeping pill not only increases dreaming, but also improves the memory. The drug is being developed by a Bio Tech company and it may also avoid some of the more worrying side effects of traditional sleeping pills such as addiction and tiredness the next day. Scientists believe the medicine could be on the market by 2012 if the trials continue to show positive results. Well, I wouldnt mind being on some of those trials! Labora! tory tests so far have been on rats and it showed that those given the drug slept soundly and performed better in maze tests the next day. How do they know though that it helped with vivid dreams? Presumably the rats dont actually tell you that! Anyway, this drug could be available soon. If you are an insomniac, like me, and you have any tips, then do feel free to pass them on. Celebrities Just a couple of female celebrities to give a mention to. Chantelle Houghton, of course, won Big Brother. She has been offered a £25 000 prize and a string of modelling contracts. They reckon she is going to make a million pounds in the next year. I have to say, that there is something endearing about Chantelle. Im not quite sure what it is, but there is something endearing about her. Last night, I was surprised to see that she actually presented an award at the Channel 4 Politics Awards, and it was probably the most unusual place for her to be in a room with a load of MPs. But she held her own and seems to be doing ok. The other one is Charlotte Church, who is writing her second autobiography at the age of nineteen. The teenager wrote her first book when she was fourteen, but now at nineteen, she is being asked to write her second autobiography. Can you believe it? Shes signed a six figure deal to bring out the book at the end of this year. Stories Dont forget if youve got a story that you think Id be interested in, then do get in touch. Let me know and send me the details. Of course, I will pass it on to one of our journalists and reporters on the programme to follow up. If youve got a problem that you think we might be able to tackle on the programme on Leave it to Levy, then get in touch with me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 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