Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast.
Tonight on the programme, Ill be looking at the very controversial plans to allow the burial of relatives in your garden. Hull City Council, thought to be the first council in the country to do this, are offering advice to local residents on this new scheme to allow homeowners to bury their relatives in their garden, instead of in a local cemetery or crematorium. Well, I know a lot of you will have thoughts on this one as its such a controversial idea. Send me your thoughts on this during the day to the usual address. Also, is anyone actually planning to do this? Would you want to bury a relative near your home in your back garden? Id be really interested to talk to anyone, who is actively considering taking up this option of garden burial. Please get in touch with me as soon as you can on this one, if you are considering it. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ring me on 01482 323232. Also tonight, Ill be talking to the Goole MP, Ian Cawsey. Youve probably heard about his Parliament Rock band called MP4. Well, hes in battle with a Chinese hip hop group, who have the same name! Ill have more on this tonight. My special guest is the wonderful Welsh singer, Aled Jones. Hes got a concert tonight at the City Hall in Hull and Ill be talking to him as hes warming up for his performance. Join me if you can tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Porridge As you know, I am into the healthy eating regime since the 1st January for my New Years Resolution. My breakfast every morning at the moment is a bowl of porridge. But apparently, I am not alone in this. Research has shown that porridge has found its way back onto the British breakfast table. The health benefits of eating oats are partly to thank for the hot cereal revival. Sales of porridge and oatmeal have soared by 81% over the last five years to £85 billion pounds in 2005. Also the single-serving porridge sachets are enjoying a surge in popularity as well, benefiting from the recent popularity of hot cereals. So there you are. We are all eating porridge at the moment, according to research just out. Queues I was saying earlier in the week that I couldnt believe how much a woman spends on shoes - £80,000 on shoes in her lifetime! Theres a note here from Tony. He says, Like most surveys of its type, its obviously complete rubbish. It equates to £1000 a year or sixteen pairs at £60 each. My wife likes shoes as much as the next woman and has loads of pairs in her wardrobe, but she does not spend anything like that. So that research is shot down in flames there by Tony. Thank you very much indeed, Tony, for that. Write Dont forget if you want to drop me a line about anything weve discussed on the programme, or about anything you think should be on the programme, or if youve got a problem that you think we could tackle on Leave it to Levy, then drop me a line. You can get me direct on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you. Watch I see Leo Sayer has got to number one with the remix of his old seventies classic, Thunder In My Heart. Leo is celebrating by treating himself with a new watch. Nothing you might think in that, apart from the fact that its a Bell and Ross watch, which costs £1400! He says, that it is the ultimate boys toy! And speaking to someone whose watch cost, I think it was, £8.50, from Hammonds in the sale, what more can you get from a watch that costs £1400! Anyway, Leo Sayer has got one and he certainly must be earning a lot more money than you and I! And on the subject of entertainment, I dont know if you saw that programme the other night called, Planet Earth. It was David Attenboroughs programme. Well, its gone down really well, with the viewers 8.9 million people watched on Sunday night. Sunday night, of course, is a good night for television. We were watching the penguins and the polar bears on Sunday. So a very good start to that programme. And the programme has been filmed in something called HD High Definition television. Were not broadcasting it in HD yet, but when we are, it will be a real treat, but we will be able to see it on DVD, when it comes out. So that programme is doing very well, as apposed to Davina. I dont know if youve been watching the programme. Well, thats not doing as well in the ratings. Countdown Just a final email on the subject of Countdown. My word this has stirred up a hornets nest. As for Countdown, the increased participation of Carol do you not think this is a deliberate policy on the part of the producer to make it slightly different as to how it was when Richard was the host? He and Des are completely different in style, so there had to be a change. The proof of the pudding will be when viewing figures are released. So there you are. Well, that sounds like its from a television type, but its not. Thats from Tony. So thank you Tony. Well, thats it from me for today. Have a very good Friday afternoon and of course, have a very good and relaxing weekend. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Also, if you know someone, whos not signed up for a Levy Letter and they would like one, then get them to go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on either Humber or Lincolnshire and sign up over the weekend. They will then get their first daily email from me on Monday morning. Thanks very much indeed for reading. 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