Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Thursdays 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. Paul will have the forecast and also Ill have the rest of the days news including an update on the teenage boy run over by a bus in Howden this morning. Ill have the full story on that for you.
Also tonight, do you suffer from headaches? If you do, then Im sure youve been desperate enough on occasions to try even the most bizarre of remedies. Well, we'll be meeting the woman, who suffered from headaches so frequently that shes turned to a new medical treatment to help. Shes now able to turn off her headaches with a flick of a switch. Ill be finding out more about that one. Anyone, who wanders around the streets of Hull, will be aware of its notorious stench! Today Hull's sewers will be getting their first proper clean in a decade. I'll be finding out if it clears the city of its stink. Also tonight, we'll be getting a tour of a nuclear bunker in Goole, which could become someone's home. And we'll be with the orchestra making music with household appliances. All that tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. Emails Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Ive had a lot of emails saying thumbs up for Des OConnor as a choice for presenting Countdown. He seems to have gone down favourably, even though some people are saying that its extraordinary that hes fit and able in his seventies to do that amount of TV. Anyway, well look forward to seeing him on our screens in the New Year. Thanks to several people as well, who have written in with whats on information. Theres one here today from Wendy Johns. She said, I would be grateful if you could give a mention to the Helpringham Petticoat Club coffee morning in aid of St Barnabus Hospice on Tuesday 14th November from 10.00am til 12noon at Anvil Cottage, 12 The Green in Helpringham near Sleaford. Theyre trying to raise money. Last year they had a similar coffee morning and managed to raise over £500 for the hospice. So the coffee morning is open to all. Tickets are £2.50 and of course thats on Tuesday 14th November next week at Helpringham. Go along and support. You Couldnt Make It Up This is about a headline on the BBC news website, which several people have sent me and Ill tell you about it. Chippy Smells of Chips Complaint A west Yorkshire chip shop owner is being investigated after a complaint that his shop smells of fish and chips. Would you believe this? The owner of the New Scarborough Fisheries was asked to check the odour and that the extraction system was working properly after the complaint. A spokesman for the council said that the authority was obliged to investigate the matter. Mr Mortin, who owns the chip shop, said he was shocked to get a letter about the investigation and thought it was a joke! The headline of the story is Fish And Chip Shop Smells of Fish And Chips. What a surprise! Books Some great books are out at the moment. Its always the same in the run up to Christmas. There are lots of biographies out and there are some good books amongst them. One that Ive just been reading the review of, which I now want to buy at the weekend, is of one man, which I found very funny and brilliantly talented. Thats Tommy Cooper. Of course, he was a great magician and a wonderful comedian rolled into one and he died literally on stage. I remember watching the television the night that happened and that was dreadfully sad. There is a book out called Tommy Cooper Always Leave Them Laughing and thats a biography by John Fisher, which is just published. I understand that its an extremely good read. If youre a fan, then thats well worth a read. At the moment, Im reading Nobbut A Lad by Alan Titchmarsh. Its about his childhood days in the 1950s and early sixties in Ilkley and Ill be talking to Alan on the programme in the not too distant future. Last night we wer! e talking to Derek Acorah on the programme. Derek is one of the most requested guests. As some people know Im not a great fan of mediums and spiritualists, but Derek is hugely popular. William Roach Hes been playing Ken Barlow for the past forty-six years, but now veteran, William Roach, is to tread the boards with his one-man show. Britains longest serving soap star has been in Corrie since it began in 1960 and will tour the country in the New Year. Like Des, he is now seventy-four and in the show he will discuss his life and times in the show, including other things such as his well-documented support for one of the political parties. Hell be touring around and if he comes anywhere near us, then hopefully hell come and join us on the sofa. Well, that wont be the first time hes been on the programme. Ive lived with Ken Barlow on the screen since being a small boy, so I was really nervous when he came in to the show and dreaded it in case I called him Ken! Anyway, I did the interview and it all went very well and I managed to call him William. And at the end of the interview I said, William, its lovely to see you, thank you very much indeed for coming in. The ! music played, the lights went down and that was the end of the programme and I said, Ken that was great, thank you very much indeed! I put my foot well and truly in it! Im A Celebrity Its back! The programme is back this weekend. I was led to believe that Milandra Burrows was going to be in it, but on the lists Ive seen, she isnt there. Jason Donovan is though and so is Jan Leeming. Do you remember her? A former BBC news reader. Myleene Class from Hearsay and she does a bit of radio disc jockeying now as well these day. Faith Brown, the comedienne remember her? And Matt Willis. Im not even sure who Matt Willis is. No doubt, somebody will tell me. Those are just some of those, who are going into the Jungle, which comes back at the weekend. Well, that's it from me for today. Thank you very much indeed for reading the Levy Letter. Join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm for tonights Look North and look out for your Letter again tomorrow. Dont forget, its our big Evening With Peter Levy this coming Sunday at the Hull Truck theatre. Im not sure if there are any seats left, or any returns, but a call to the box office at Hull Truck will sort you out on that one. Join me tonight! 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
