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 BBC One at 6.30pm.
On tonight's programme, I'll be revealing how the road across the Humber Bridge is cracking after millions of pounds have been spent on resurfacing. The road surface was re-laid in 2002 and it was supposed to last twenty years, but cracks have already started to appear. Ill have the full story on that one and will have more on what it could mean for motorists. Does your high street have all the shops you need? Look North will be in Bridlington with the regeneration officials, who are trying to bring the big names to the town. Ill have more on that later. And I'll be meeting the man, who's rebuilding his pub on the East Coast as his original bar falls into the sea. He cant stop the coastal erosion, which is destroying his business, but hes determined that he doesnt want to call last orders at his pub. Ill be chatting to him tonight about his future plans. Ill also have the rest of the days news and of course Paul will be here with the forecast. Emails Thanks for all the emails on a variety of subjects. We were reporting last night on the programme about Charlie Williams, who was the first black British comedian to find fame on television. He died at the weekend after a long struggle with Parkinsons Disease. Charlie was seventy-eight. He had a broad Yorkshire accent of course and his catchphrase was you old flower!! He was a huge success on the 1970s show, The Comedians. Several people have written in to say what a sad loss it is. Charlie had been poorly for some time and died in hospital on Saturday at his home town of Barnsley. Thanks for the emails on that. He will, of course, be sadly missed. I was also talking yesterday in the Levy Letter about Charlotte Church and her new chat show. Several people have written in about this after I mentioned it. Julie says, I saw the Charlotte Church show and I thought she did ok for her first time. She had obviously been told to play up her ladette image. There was a lot of face pulling and double meanings. The guest didnt really help. Im sure it would have gone down better if shed had a guest with something to say. Hopefully she will find her own groove and improve. Why does everyone have to knock celebs down? Give the girl a chance! And on another subject, she says, How much money does a guy have to have to make him attractive? I was saying about a survey, which has found that men have to have £50,000 in the bank before women think theyre a good catch. Julie says, Well, I think money doesnt matter at all, as long as the man has a good work ethic and is prepared to work for his money, then you cant go wrong. Id be! much more interested in how he conducts himself in a relationship than what his bank balance is! So those comments come from Julie, whos in Hull. This one comes from Peter Swift about Charlottes new show Perhaps some of your correspondents were expecting a semi-classical music show and if they were, then they were doomed to disappointment. She made it quite clear that this would be something different and it was. I thought it was quite entertaining and was much funnier than some of the rubbish that weve had foisted upon us in the name of comedy in recent years. Im sixty-three and I think Charlotte Church breaths new life in TV entertainment. Thats from Peter Swift. Thanks very much indeed. Help I always get a great response from you, whenever I put out these appeals for help with our programme in the Levy Letter, so thank you very much indeed for that. Ive got another cry for help today. So, unfortunately, it looks like summer is over, the kids are back at school and its just about looking like Autumn outside. Well, everyone in the newsroom is moaning that weve had a rubbish August and we want to keep the summer spirit going just a little bit longer. So send us your best holiday pictures for tonights programme. Send them to us and well see if we can get them on the programme tonight. I want your best picture of our summer this year. Perhaps a shot that makes Scunthorpe look like St Tropez or where Bridlington could be mistaken for Barbardos. So rummage through your photos and send them to the Look North email address thats [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to seeing them and maybe we could encourage the sun back for a couple more weeks! Crying James Bond may have dodged bullets and explosions without ruffling his hair, but modern man is a little less stoical, according to new research. A survey has revealed that an astonishing 80% of men admit to breaking down in tears in public while over half have cried at soppy films. With Paul Gascoigne crying over his World Cup booking and Matthew Pincent crying when he received his Olympic Gold, crying has never been so acceptable for men. 80% of men admitted that they cried in public. So there you are. But is crying a turn off for the ladies? Get in touch and let me know. Cookery When I was at secondary school, we did have a kind of cookery lesson, which was called rural science. But cookery lessons are to make a come back in schools as part of a drive to encourage healthy eating. Pupils, aged between eleven and sixteen, will get the chance to earn a Licence To Cook certificate and will improve their cookery skills. They will be taught how to plan and prepare healthy and affordable meals and will earn a certificate if they complete twenty-four hour long lessons. The course is to be launched in September 2008 and its not compulsory! Nannies A new survey has shown that nannies have become an almost endangered species in this country. Most young mothers believe that an attractive Mary Poppins could threaten their marriage by tempting their husbands to stray. Now they want to hire men to help with the nappies and school runs. As ever, the press are picking up on it and are calling it the man about the house! So men are not to be trusted with the female nannies, and male nannies are becoming more popular. Insecure wives no longer want to employ pretty girls in their household. Nearly 80% of mothers feel their marriage would be under threat if they hired an attractive female nanny, according to a survey just published. Pictures Dont forget, if youve got a picture or a photograph of a scenic view or whether its of an incident thats happened near you, then drop me a line and let me take a look at it. If youve got a story that we could do on the programme, or maybe an issue or a problem that we could help you with on Leave it to Levy, then let me know. Give me a contact telephone number as well. The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look forward to hearing from you about that or indeed about anything else. Super Fruit They talk about Viagra, but a super fruit that claims to boost your sex life and fight cellulite and combat cancer and could even prevent wrinkles is on sale in supermarkets today. It sounds like a dream doesnt it? Goji berries, which have been dubbed the natural Viagra are all the rage in the United States and are a hit with stars like Madonna, Kate Moss, Lucy Liu and Brooke Shields. Its a small red fruit, almost the same size as a raison, and its said to have anti-ageing properties that can even help you lose weight. Its grown on vines in remote areas of the Himalayas and it contains five hundred times more vitamin C than an orange. If you think youre interested in this, then it says that theyre good for boosting your sex life, fighting cellulite, combating cancer and preventing wrinkles with its anti-ageing effects. They cost £8.99 thats quite a lot for a berry and I dont know how many you get for that! Thats two hundred and fifty grams apparently. Until today,! customers in the UK could only buy them from health food shops and online. From today the Goji berry is going on sale in the supermarkets! So there you are. I think thats one for me! Thats it from me for today. Thanks very much for being there and for reading the Levy Letter. Join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm for tonights programme. And dont forget, if theres someone you think would like a daily Levy Letter, get them to sign up. They need to click on either of the two addresses at the bottom and follow the instructions there. Theyll then get their first letter from me the following day. 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