Hello its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy letter, I hope your day goes well and that youll be able to join me tonight BBC1 at half past Six for all the days news and stories and of course Paul will be there with the forecast.
On tonights programme well be looking into flood warnings on the East Coast as were expecting the highest tides in twenty years. Also, as the Red Arrows, based of course in RAF Scampton, prepare for their four thousandth display this weekend well be speaking to a man who flew with the original crew back in the sixties. Well be visiting the Burghley horse trials again, and taking a look at an unusual way to take to the air with two local men. Well also be chilling out with some live Jazz at the cleethorpes Jazz festival. Events Dont forget if youve got something coming up in the near future for charity or a good cause and youd like a plug in the Levy Letter then drop me a line and give me the details. Also, if youve got a problem or something for a Leave it to Levy that you think I might be able to deal with then the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] .co.uk. Yesterday I was talking about slide rules in the Levy Letter, which sparked a response from Joe Noble in Hull. He says Im of a similar age to you, well maybe a little bit older, and I can remember slide rules and also found them confusing. I was doing night school to get qualifications for my job as a draughtsman and we also had to use Log tables. I used to slide the rule and then check my answer using Log tables. Well try to explain this to young people today and you just get a blank look. I did a degree as a mature student about 12 years ago and everything is so much easier with calculators! So there you go, thats the giant slide rules I used to use when I was at school! Of course if youre under a certain age you wont know what Im talking about Smoking I see that a free telephone hotline is to be set up to report those who break the ban on smoking in public. Informers will be put in touch through to their local council whose Enforcement Officers will be ready to launch surveillance operations and swoop on offenders and dish out on the spot fines. Well Smoking campaigners have called the move deeply distasteful. And warned that most would find the thought of turning smokers over to the authorities very Un-British. Those who flout the ban will face a £50 spot fine or a £200 court fine. Dont forget, if you have a view on smoking then get in touch as ever. Entertainment Theres been a wonderful series on the history of Light entertainment on BBC 2 on Saturday nights, its drawing to a close but what an excellent series its been. Thanks for all the emails telling me about that. I also mentioned yesterday that Extras was on the way back I said I didnt know it went away! well apparently it is next Thursday night with Ricky Gervais. And in the new series, amongst the guest stars there are Richard and Judy, and also Keith Chegwin. Divorce Divorce might not only break a womans heart, it might also give her heart disease! Scientists have suggested that a failed marriage is a major a cause of Cardio-Vascular disease in women. Men, in contrast, were found to escape from a split with their health unscathed. The research was based on examinations of the medical records of more than 9000 men and women between the ages of 51 and 61. Women who had been divorced, widowed or remarried were more likely to experience health problems than those who had stayed married. I suppose its not any great surprise but women may have a greater risk of heart disease if theyre divorced than if theyre not. Parky Hes a well known Yorkshireman of course. He was featured in the story of Light Entertainment on Saturday nights as well. Michael Parkinson - the Barnsley born and bred broadcaster and journalist - has been criticising young Charlotte Church. As I mentioned at the start of the week, the first episode of Charlottes new chat show was on television last Friday. Parkinson, who was interviewing the biggest names in show business before Miss Church was even thought about, criticised the way in which a lot of young female presenters are given plum jobs on TV. His pleas for intelligent older women to be given prime time shows last night has been seen as a thinly veiled attack on the Welsh starlet. Michael Parkinson is 71, you cant believe it can you? Well he contrasted that with what happens in America where Barbara Walters is a top chat show host there, and shes 74! Oprah Winfrey is 52. Charlotte Churchs first programme didnt do too badly in the TV ratings but not as good as theyd hoped. The second one, of course, is tonight on Channel 4. Weekend Well thats it from me today, join me if you can tonight at 6.30 and have a very good weekend. If youre with anyone at the weekend whos not signed up to the Levy letter and you think theyd like one then point them in the direction of one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page. Tell them to click on that address, go to Levy Letter then follow the instructions. Theyll get their first Levy Letter from me starting on Monday! Have a good weekend, bye. 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
