Hello its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and youll be able to join me tonight, BBC1 at 6.30pm. All the days news including a report from Spalding where anger over the proposed closure of a special school has reached boiling point. Well investigate why residents and traders are at loggerheads in Driffield and well have a competition to win tickets to see the musical Starlight Express when it heads to our region from Londons West End. Paul, as usual will have the forecast.
Last night we were talking to the singer Peter Grant, hes 19, hes from Yorkshire and hes a huge hit at the moment. Lots of emails coming in saying could we have more of his music. There is obviously music out to buy but if you want to go and see him hes appearing at Hull New Theatre on Saturday and we did have a competition last night. Who had a hit in the 60s with Joanna? He sings that song all these years later. If you think you know just send an email in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyclists Cyclists to be fined £2500 possibly if they dont ring their bells. Can you believe it? The government is drawing up legislation to ensure every bicycle is fitted with a bell and cyclists use it to warn pedestrians who are about to step off the pavement onto the road. Cycling groups have branded the idea as pointless nanny state intervention by new Labour. The proposals may prove popular with pedestrians who are becoming increasingly angry with cyclists who jump red lights, weave in and out of the traffic and career along pavements. Department of Transport officials are considering proposals to give on the spot fines to riders without bells. Persistent offenders could face court imposed penalties of up to £2500. Cyclists being fined for having no bell or not ringing it. On a serious note in the past five years 12 pedestrians have died after being hit by cyclists. Well the cyclists have been warned, theyre after you. Eating out One of the luxuries we all enjoy is occasionally going out and having a meal, maybe a posh restaurant, maybe a fish and chip supper or a Sunday pub lunch or a takeaway. Well there are now, apparently, according to the papers, possibly plans to tax that. Its been dubbed the plate tax by critics and condemned by several including the chef Anthony Worrall Thompson as outrageous while the industry branded it monstrous. It seems Gordon Brown wants to make some extra pennies out of our eating out. Somebody from local government, the Tories has warned it would punish hard-working families who are simply trying to treat themselves. Your views on that fact and indeed anything else welcome. Please get in touch. We love to talk about food on the programme. A couple of stories here which are in the news this week. Eating mandarins could help cut the risk of developing liver cancer and other diseases according to research. The fruit is the latest super food thought to offer medical b! enefits. Two studies have found that eating mandarin oranges or drinking juice with added carotenoids, the vitamin A compound which gives mandarins their orange colour, cuts the risk of several conditions. So there we are, get eating mandarins and the other thing were doing is eating a lot of fish. Traditionally the most bought food at the supermarket was chicken but now sales of fish have increased by 20% in the past year. It now out sells chicken at several of the main supermarkets. Pictures Dont forget if you have a photo you think we should see for the Big Screen then send it to me. Get your pictures in and if you have a problem for Leave it to Levy and youd like us to tackle that, drop me a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make up Women spend more than two years of their lives applying and removing make up according to a new survey. The average British woman dedicates a total of 603 days to applying mascara, blusher, lipstick, eye shadow and a further 170 days to taking it off again. It costs her £22500 in cosmetics and skin care products according to this poll. If you want to comment on that on indeed anything else then please get in touch. Thats it from me today, have a good afternoon, enjoy this weather and join me tonight BBC1, 6.30pm. Take care, bye for now, 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
