Hello its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope your weekend was good whatever you had planned, hope youre ready for the start of another week. Join me tonight, 6.30pm BBC1 for all the days news including the East Yorkshire family clearing up after sewage flooded their home. It seems a plumbing job went wrong and the waste from the whole street ended up in their house. Well have the pictures of Colin the rescued kitten with no back paws and as Burghley Horse Trials come to an end well have all the spills and thrills from the weekend. Paul will have the forecast as usual.
Shopping Well shopping it seems has changed considerably. The hot time now is 11pm to 1am, not in the shop but at home on the computer. More people are doing their internet shopping, buy buy buy, as theyre calling it between 11 and 1 on their computer, that is the peak hours for internet shopping according to a report just out. Are you shopping at midnight on the computer? Probably not. Neither am I. Allergies I see that a vaccine will soon end the misery of millions of allergy sufferers according to scientists. Patients will be able to take a simple course of drops or tablets to immunise their bodies against potentially fatal allergic reactions. Scientists say they are close to perfecting the treatment which could be ready for use by hay fever and asthma sufferers within three years. An end to allergies is in sight. Thats extremely good news. I dont know whether you regard this as good news but living to be 150 in the future will be the norm. Medical advances could help us reach the ripe-old age of 150. A leading academic has told a conference that life begins at 100. This is unthinkable today. In the future 100 will seem pretty young. He said that stem-call therapy would allow people to disguise the signs of ageing by regaining lost hair and removing wrinkles in the skin regularly living to the age of 150. School dinners Jamie Olivers rant over school dinners continues. This time hes had a pop at some people in Lincolnshire it has to be said but hes made an attack on parents who fill their childrens lunch boxes with junk food saying he was bored with being polite on the issue. He warned they risked their children becoming overweight and under achievers. He even claimed that those who gave youngsters caffeine-based energy drinks might as well have been giving them cocaine. It was a foul-mouthed tirade. He said that 75% of packed lunches are made up of inappropriate snacks, fizzy drinks, crisps and sweets. He said that eating chips and processed food in unhealthy school dinners was the quickest way to heart disease. So he certainly gets the publicity whenever he has a new series or a new book out. Pictures Dont forget if youve got a photograph you think I should see or you have a problem or an issue you think we can deal with on Leave it to Levy then give me the details and give me a contact number as well to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or drop me a line to Queen's Court, Queen's Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Charlotte Church I mentioned Charlotte Churchs programme last week. Several people have written in to say it was an absolute load of tosh. I have to say I did see a bit of it on Friday night and it wasnt really my cup of tea but each to their own. I think Charlotte is still a very natural and talented performer on her own. I dont really think she needs to use swear words and sing songs with swear words in to make her name. Thanks for all the comments on that. Also the other programme that weve talked about is The History of Light Entertainment. Its been on BBC2 on Saturday nights for the last few weeks. Its been an excellent series and quite a few people have written in to say how much theyve enjoyed it and is there a chance itll be repeated? Im sure it will and if they dont repeat it, Im sure theyll bring it out on DVD. An excellent series, The History of Light Entertainment. Of course the other thing weve been enjoying on Saturday nights and I watched it on Saturday evening is! the Maria programme, trying to find a Maria for the West End production of The Sound of Music. I said on week one I thought Connie would win it, there was no competition and with just one more week left shes still in it. My money is still on her. Well, that's it from me for today, have a very good Monday afternoon. Join me tonight BBC1, 6.30pm. 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
