Hello, it's Peter here and welcome to Wednesdays 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. Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the forecast. On tonights programme, I'll be investigating the drop in the number of shoplifting convictions across the region. Plus we'll be gauging reaction to the news that a former Grimsby Town player, now a boxer, assaulted a policeman. Ill have the full story on those.
And it must be an incredibly glamorous lifestyle surely! I'll be meeting the cosmetic artist from Cottingham, who does the make up for the stars. And we'll be with the under tens boys football club in Lincoln, who's sponsored by one of rock music's loudest bands. All that tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm. Desert Orchid Sad to hear about the death of the horse racer, Desert Orchid, and so are many Levy Letter readers as well. Several have written in to say that the legendary grey, affectionately known as Dessie, passed away peaceful at his Newmarket stables just before dawn on Monday. The legendary horse was a firm favourite with the Royal family and played a starring role in the pageant to mark the Queen Mums 100th birthday. Loads of people were fans of the horse, even those, who didnt actually know anything about horse racing and didnt actually back Dessie. Dessie has been retired for the last fifteen years and his ashes are going to be scattered over the race course in Middlesex called Kempton Park. So Desert Orchid dies at twenty-seven. Thanks for a couple of emails about that. Theres another one here from Derek Edis from Ludford. Im not a fan of Im A Celebrity, but I do flick around occasionally, when theres nothing else that I want to watch. And the one big thing that annoys me is what they do to their hats. I have no connection to Australia except that Ive been wearing an Akubra for thirty years. Originally, I wanted a hat with a wide brim to keep the rain off my glasses and I found them so comfortable that Ive been wearing them ever since. To buy one in this country would cost you about £80, although I now buy mine direct from Australia on the internet at less than half of that, even with the postage! I think, Peter, one might suit you!! Derek, thank you very much indeed for that! And I see that after just one night in the Jungle, Jan Leeming (I hadnt heard of her for donkeys years) didnt do very well in the Bush Tucker trials and just got two meals for the rest of them. Oh dear! I was talking yesterday about blueberries and their success at the moment, because theyre so good for us although they have shot up in price. Denise writes in from Thimbleby Its fascinating to read that people have woken up to blueberries, also known as bilberries. My mum used to pick them when she was younger on Helsby Hill near Runcorn in Cheshire and my sons grandma from Skipton in North Yorkshire spent many an hour picking them at various locations around that area. We found that there were loads of bushes laden with berries at Brimham Rocks this year. Blueberry is very much an American terminology for our bilberry, but I suppose its more obvious as to what youre talking about rather than calling it a bilberry. Blackcurrants, redcurrants and white currants and blueberries are all delicious, and are the same size and can be used in a number of ways. PS. I agree with you about the Cornish pasties theres nothing like eating the real thing, sat on the quayside of ! somewhere like Loo and watching the shark boats come in and out. Funny you should say that Denise, but I was eating a pasty on the Harbour at Padstowe earlier in the year when I was on holiday. It happened to be on the Sunday when they were renaming the brand new Padstowe lifeboat after many years. That was very much an unexpected bonus! Countdown No more emails please about Countdown and the subject for the choice of the new host. Yes, it is Des OConnor. Hes seventy-four. Can you believe that? Hes signed the contract, which is estimated to be worth about half a million pounds a year to join Carol Vorderman on the show. Des Lynam is on the show until the end of the year and then Des OConnor will be on at the start of 2007. Emails Dont forget, if you want to drop me a line on any subject, or indeed if youve got a problem, then get in touch. Give me the details to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lights Dont forget, its a big week for the Christmas lights switch on. Theyve been working in Hull on hooking up the lights for many a week now. The switch on is on Thursday night at a quarter to seven and of course Look North will be there as ever! Would you expect otherwise? And the lights are being switched on in Lincoln as well. Theyre the big two events, but of course, there are other events as well across the region, but I expect theyll be slightly closer to Christmas. Watch out on Look North for coverage of the Hull switch on. Thats on Thursday night. And Friday night is Children In Need night and this year its coming from The Deep. If youre coming along with your cheques, then we look forward to seeing you there! Well, that's it from me for today. I hope you can join me tonight on BBC One at 6.30pm as usual. 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