Hello its Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well. Halfway through the week, I hope youll be able to join me tonight BBC One at 6.30pm. Paul is still away but rest assured hell be back on Monday. Lisa will have the forecast and also on the programme tonight well find out whether a £30 million regeneration plan can save the East Ridings seaside resorts. What are the chances of Withernsea getting a new pier? The Baths Hall in Scunthorpe has been a popular music venue for over 70 years but well hear tonight how its calling it a day. Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes will be in the region find out why and were live at Barton Bike Night,where over 10,000 visitors are expected.
Humber Bridge At the risk of repeating myself, just a reminder that its a big weekend this weekend the celebrations for the Humber Bridge 25th anniversary. Lots of things happening including a fireworks display on Saturday evening. The bridge will be closed for 15 minutes between 10.45pm and 11pm. Also to mark the occasion the programme will be coming live from the Hessle Foreshore on Friday evening. So, Fridays Look North live from Hessle Foreshore 6.30pm to 7pm if you can make it down, we look forward to seeing you there. Lisa will be with me as well. Happiness Well Ive heard some barmy stories, but the latest is that happiness is key to good learning. English schools are looking at a plan by an American psychology professor who thinks schoolchildren should have lessons in happiness. The psychology teacher says that anything that encourages students to have a more optimistic outlook and seize the moment is a great thing. So there we are. I managed to get through my schooling without any happiness classes. Having said that I didnt pass one exam and I havent got one qualification to my name. And dont say the obvious! Retirement For those of us who are thinking about retirement or if its looming in the not too distant future theres some new research out which suggests that around half of us plan to remain in paid employment when we reach 65. While a third intend to do voluntary work. One in three Britons aged between 50 and 64 claim they do not believe a traditional retirement is possible anymore. 22% said they did not know if they would ever retire. In other words people are thinking about working after retirement age because they cant see any other way around it. Interesting. Your views on retirement and indeed anything else. Get in touch. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont forget if youve got a problem or a query you think we can deal with on the programme you can get me direct. Give me your telephone number as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chat up lines Well chat up lines are as corny as ever including a list out today designed to help romantics home and abroad. Such toe curling one-liners as Do you believe in love at first sight or shall I walk by again? making it into a Top 10 list which has been compiled by a book publisher. Here are a few more. 1. Was your father a thief because he stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes. 2. Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? 3. Excuse me I seem to have lost my phone number, could I borrow yours? 4. Excuse me, do you kiss strangers? No, well let me introduce myself. 5. You must be tired; youve been running through my mind all day. So there we are, some of the top 10 chat up lines just published in a book out today. EastEnders After many many years, well 21 years to be exact, Pauline is quitting EastEnders. Wendy Richard whos played Pauline for 21 years is opting for, well Im not sure if its retirement, some people are saying retirement, others are saying shes going to be doing other things, either way Wendy Richard is leaving EastEnders. In her time Wendy was extremely glamorous. I was watching a Carry On film the other night on video, Carry On Matron and she was in that and when she was young she was a very striking looking girl. She was extremely attractive. She went on of course to play Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? Shes been playing Pauline for 21 years and theres a great story that her husband came to meet her one day from the set. As she left the building she was beaming and smiling, apparently it was because in the course of that days work shed had to hit Arthur played by Bill Treacher over the head with a frying pan and I gather she hit him rather harder than she should hav! e done for a bit of filming. The reason, well she never got on with Bill Treacher. I dont know that first hand. Its a second hand story but I do believe its true. Anyway Wendy Richard is leaving EastEnders. Pop singles Well there was a time, a year, 18 months back when it looked like the days of the single were well and truly gone. No longer were people going into record shops and buying CD singles or as it was in the old days a vinyl single to play at 45rpm. Sales of pop singles are at their highest now for six years. Why? Well its all to do with computer downloads. After years of declining demand in the shops, the single had looked doomed and within the traditional Top 40 chart but now the number of songs downloaded at home is nearly one million a week thats up from just 14,000 two years ago and its still rising. So far this year UK music fans have downloaded 24.3 million tracks and its all to do with the fact that its so simple. I think one of the things and Ive done it myself, Ive bought four or five singles this year, is the fact you can hear it on the radio and from the comfort of your own home just go and click on, if you do the iTunes, (other music downloads are available!) ! just buy your single straight away. You dont have to make a journey to the record shop. And of course they are considerably cheaper as well. Sales of download singles are predicted to top 50 million this year, so therefore saving the single. The other great thing about downloading music as well, when an album comes out you dont necessarily have to buy the whole album. You can just pick your favourite tracks. Anyway the single is safe, of course Top Of The Pops isnt. Email Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Still emails coming through suggesting guests for the programme. Keep them coming in. Obviously its easier if we can have some kind of link with our part of the world for guests rather than just randomly picking a big name youd like on the programme. If theres someone whos connected with our part of the world then do get in touch and tell me why you would like them on the programme. Thanks too for several emails, it was a national story, the day before yesterday, David Cameron was saying we should all embrace and love hoodies. Well several people were emailing me. Most of these are unreadable saying that they didnt agree and we shouldnt embrace hoodies. Anyway, your views on that and indeed anything else to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pumpkin progress For all of you who requested the pumpkin seeds back in May, wed love to see how theyre doing. Hopefully better than mine which have shrivelled up! Please send me your photos either a hard copy or digitally. Im afraid we wont be able to return the photos, so just send us a copy. I look forward to seeing them and well show some of them on the programme. Well thats it from me. Join me tonight BBC One 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
