Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and thank you very much indeed for reading the Letter. I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news and Paul will have the forecast.
Also tonight, theres good news for the workers at Golden Wonder in Scunthorpe as a new take over deal is announced securing more than three hundred jobs. Ill have the latest on that tonight. Plus, Ill be showing you a new initiative for smokers a little bag to put your cigarette ends in when youve finished smoking them. Its supposed to help keep our streets clear of fag ends! Ill be asking you what you think of that one! And the population of Goole has risen by a third in the last few months! Can you believe that? And its due to a huge influx of Eastern European migrant workers. Ill be looking at how the town is coping with its recent population growth. And my guest tonight is a huge Tommy Cooper fan and is making his mark in our region with his impressions of the great comedian. So today, why dont you get in touch with me and let me know your favourite Tommy Cooper moments. Perhaps, Ill be able to get them recreated in the studio for you tonight on the programme! You can email me, of course, at the usual address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emails Thank you very much indeed for all the emails over the last two or three days on a variety of subjects. Lets just have a little catch up here. This one comes from Patricia, she says, You were talking about insomnia in your Levy Letter today. I do Yoga classes at the gym and I find it very relaxing. Usually on the night that I do the class, I have a great nights sleep. Why dont you try it Peter? Well, Patricia, thank you very much indeed and thanks for the suggestion of Yoga. And also we were talking about smoking last week. This one comes from S.P. I am among those people, who wholeheartedly support the smoking ban. I would even go as far as to say that the government should ban smoking in all public places. As a person, who is allergic to cigarette smoke, I find it very hard even to wait at bus stops without having to cover my nose to avoid inhaling someone elses smoke. Maybe one of the readers of the Levy Letter could enlighten me as to the benefits of smoking? I was saying the other day that the household chore that I hate more than anything is putting the duvet in the cover. This one comes from Fran and she says and I quote, What I do is lay the cover out on the bed as you want it to be, then lay the top half of the duvet, the rest laid on the floor, over the cover and grab the top of the duvet and put it inside the cover. Fluffing up the cover, then grab the top corner of duvet with one hand and grabbing the top corner of the cover with the other hand on the same side of the bed. Move it down, separating the cover as you go, so that the inside corner of the cover will meet the duvet corner, then I grab the corner and fit together and pull that side up to the top of the bed and repeat the other side and then just pull down the cover over the flat duvet. I used to think it was a nightmare, until a lady, who was a chambermaid, showed me this way. So, there you are. It sounds like something from that TV programme, Thats Life, doe! snt it? But there you are. Those are your instructions on how to do the duvet the easy way! And that of course, comes originally from a chambermaid! Sleep Yes, still on the subject of sleep. I was saying last week, just how difficult I find it to sleep. I was interested to read an article today that hotel receptionists are facing a bizarre new hazard and that is naked sleep walkers! One hotel chain has reported three separate incidents of sleeping guests wandering around nude in the hotel last year. More than four million adults regularly sleep walk and a third dont wear pyjamas, according to this survey! So sleep walking in the nude seems to be a problem! Not too bad if youre just at home with your loved ones, but if youre staying in a hotel, then Im sure it could become quite interesting! Snap Decisions Faced with an important decision, many of us agonise for hours over the pros and cons, but such deliberations are counter-productive according to a study, which has revealed that those, who think too deeply, tend to make the wrong decisions. When choosing an expensive car, those who put the least thought into their decision, were happiest with their selection, a study found. It seems that a snap decision, or your first instinct is usually the right one. So, dont agonise too hard, just take the first thing that comes into your mind! Charges Theyre talking of making decisions on cars. It can be cheaper to employ a barrister or even a doctor, than a car mechanic, according to new research. Consumers are frequently paying more than a £100 an hour for labour at franchise car dealers, according to an investigation by What Car magazine. It says that a locum doctor charges between £350 and £500 per day, and that a criminal law junior Barrister charges as little as £30 an hour! But if you want your car fixing at a well-known car dealer, then it could cost £100 an hour. For example, replacing a main beam bulb on an Audi A2 can cost as much as £66! Thats just for replacing a bulb. The bulb itself just costs £3.96! Well, Ive been the victim of that, so I understand all this. Acupressure I tried acupuncture on the programme, albeit rather briefly, a couple of weeks back, again to help the sleeping issue. But an ancient Chinese form of massage is more effective than conventional therapy at relieving lower back pain, according to a new study. Almost 90% of patients said that their discomfort was reduced by acupressure treatment on a trial comparing it to mainstream physiotherapy. Developed about five thousand years ago in China, acupressure involves applying pressure with thumbs and fingers tips to the same points on the body stimulated in acupuncture, which uses needles. So acupressure has just as good results and of course doesnt involve needles! Drop Me A Line Dont forget if you want to write in, if youve got a story that you think we might be able to do on the programme, or a guest that youd like to see on the programme, or any photographs or pictures that youve taken that you think I might like to see, just drop me a line. You can either write to me at BBC Look North, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH, or email me straight away at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Were also looking for some more stories to do on Leave it to Levy, so if you have a gripe or a problem, that you think we might like to tackle on the programme, again get in touch as soon as you can! Well, thats it from me for today. Have a very good Monday and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for tonights Look North. 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