Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope you had a very good weekend. If you had something planned or organised, or simply if you were taking it easy, then either way I hope it was good for you. Welcome to the start of another week of Levy Letters and Look North.
Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm as usual if you can. Ill have all the days news, Paul will have the forecast and tonight I will be looking in depth into the independent investigation of the death eight years ago, whilst he was in police custody, of Christopher Alder. Today a major report into the incident is made public and Ill be getting the full reaction from London and Hull and from the family. Ill be speaking to Christophers sister, Janet, about her reaction to this new investigation. Ill have much more on that tonight on the programme. Also tonight, my guest will be the television presenter, Carol Smilie. She was the star of daytime TV with makeover shows like Changing Rooms. After complications whilst giving birth, Carol required a blood transfusion, so she is now giving up her time to support public blood donation and to try and encourage more and more of us to give blood. Shell be joining me on the programme tonight to talk about that. And Ill be meeting the Lincolnshire man, who invented the mobile disco! We all know the cheesy music and the disco lights at our local village hall. Well, this man packed out the dance halls in the 1940s with his mobile disco! Ill be talking to him tonight about how things have changed nowadays! Also today, Ive got the exclusive competition to the Levy Letter to win tickets to see Cannon and Ball. Theyre back in Hull in a couple of weeks time. They were a huge hit at Christmas in the pantomime and Ive got tickets to give away in this Levy Letter competition. If you think you know the answer and you want to see Cannon and Ball, then all youve got to do is email me to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the question is what was the name of the pantomime that they were starring in at Hull New Theatre at Christmas? What pantomime were they in at Christmas time in Hull? If you think you know, then email me and you could win tickets to see Cannon and Ball back in Hull in a few months time. Market Traders You might have seen it, but it has certainly struck a chord with one or two people already, who have written in to me about it. Its all to do with market traders. Of course, weve got a lot of very successful and colourful markets in our part of the world. Well, market traders have been banned from shouting to sell their wares after a town hall official has branded them a health hazard. They were told to tone down their sale pitches or face prosecution. Instead of accepting the order quietly, the traders at Doncasters Medieval Market are in uproar. Taking the shouting out of the market is like taking the juggling out of the circus. It is political correctness gone too far! says a spokesman for the Market Traders Federation, he is Roy Penketh. He said that jocular sales banter with competing stalls is part of the unique appeal of many British markets. I certainly agree with that. Well, officials have given all five hundred and seventy stall holders a leaflet warning tha! t loud noise like shouting can cause problems for people with hearing difficulties. The leaflets remind traders of their responsibility to adhere to noise level demands under the Disability Discrimination Act. Well, agree or disagree or political correctness gone mad as most people seem to think? But theres to be not too much shouting at the markets because the officials think its a health hazard. Your views on that or indeed on anything else gratefully received [EMAIL PROTECTED] Titanic I dont know whether youre the same, but Ive always had this absolute fascination for anything to do with the Titanic. I love the film, but what I really like are the television pictures from the wreck at the bottom of the sea bed and also when they show on the television the artefacts that theyve found. So I was absolutely fascinated to hear that theyve found some sheet music. You know the famous orchestra that played as the Titanic sank? Well, all the musicians perished, but that poignant time is now relived after a piece of their sheet music was found. They were playing Put Your Arms Around Me Honey and the actual sheet music has been discovered on the ocean floor near the wreck and has now gone on display. It was discovered on the floor of the Atlantic coast where the wreck is lying. Of course the White Star liner hit an iceberg on the night of April 14th 1912 during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. She sank in the early hours of the following day wi! th the loss of one thousand five hundred passengers and crew. It was thought that the design of the boat meant that it was unsinkable, but the wreck was discovered in 1985 by a team of divers. So there you are. The sheet music, played by the orchestra on the Titanic, has just been found and is on display. Candles I dont know about you, but I love candles at home. I had a quick count up and in the lounge I have five tea lights and one big candle. I dont know if this is normal, but people in Britain spend on average £20 million a year on candles. Theyve become a fashionable must-have in four out of every five homes. The average candle buyer spends £120 a year on them and has a minimum of ten in the home at any one time. The favourite scent is vanilla, followed by lavender and cinnamon. So there you are. So if you like your candles, then you spend £120 a year on average and have about ten candles dotted around your home. Well, your comments on that, gratefully received. Still the comments are coming in about Carol Vorderman and Des Lynam on Countdown. Well, I dont really want to get embroiled in all of this, but there are certainly some lively responses on that one. I see that more of the newspapers, both on Saturday and on Sunday, had more stories from behind the scenes about Countdown. Anyway, what do you think? Is Carol stealing the show or is Des not up to the job? Anyway, whatever you think, send in your comments. And just a quick note here. Hi, my name is Daniel and Im the bar manager of a public house on Anlaby Road. Im emailing you to let you know that on the 14th April, were doing a sponsored bed push for Cancer Research. We also have fourteen men getting parts of their bodies waxed for charity and were hoping to make it a very fun day and of course hoping to raise a lot of money for a very good cause. So theres a little bit of publicity there for the Eagle Public House on Anlaby Road. Good luck for their bed push and also good luck to the guys getting waxed! Thats it from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm! And in the meantime, get your emails in if you want to enter the Cannon and Ball competition. 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