Hello Its Peter here and welcome to Fridays Levy Letter, hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at six thirty. There will be all the days news and stories as usual. We'll be investigating concerns that Boston United could be teetering on the edge of oblivion. Itll be sad for Boston and football lovers everywhere if the worst happens and Boston United cant find a way to financial safety, and if you have any comments on this or any other stories then well give out the contact details on the programme.
We'll meet the region's unsung sporting hero after a career stretching back half a century. He is a local legend for Sunday footballers, and well be revealing more on the programme tonight. Tonight well also meet the couple who say theyre having to demolish their own house because its crumbling into the sea. And here at last. Grimsby's outdoor ice rink finally opens after being thwarted by the mild weather. Well that mild weather might not continue for much longer, Ill have more on that later. Of course the weekend forecast will be coming from Paul, thats all on the programme tonight on BBC One at half past Six. Carols Thanks to everyone who turned out last night and supported the Lord Mayors charity at his annual carol service held at the Street Life Museum. Thanks to all the guests who came a long and did readings as well. There were plenty of people there last night, and I hope you enjoyed it if you could make it along. Weather Paul will have the detailed forecast tonight, and of course the story yesterday was the terrible tornado in London, and the damage it did. Its amazing that it wasnt worse than it turned out. One of the national papers is saying that Britain is facing a terrible winter, the worst for decades. Ill have to ask Paul about this. Apparently well have killer winds of up to a hundred miles an hour in this month, and two months of the worst blizzards for many years. The weather will gather force and build up to a crescendo in the final days of 2006. That would be worrying if it wasnt in the Daily Express, but the daily express seem to be obsessed with severe weather stories, and theyve had quite a few this year, which Paul always manages to rubbish. Anyway, well ask him about it later. Lulu Well the amazing Lulu is approaching her 60th birthday, Lulu could be forgiven for tiring of explaining how she looks so good. She looks a lot, lot younger than her years. The secret apparently varies from yoga to clean living, lots of water, and facials, end even falling for much younger men. She is however indebted to one particular complexion booster. Like countless other celebrities, Lulu is a self-confessed botox veteran. Questioned at a party this week about the treatment, she replied Ive been there, done that, got the t-shirt. The Scottish singer said she wouldnt balk at having plastic surgery if she felt it was necessary. She looks amazing, shes 58, and shes had botox, but my word she doesnt half look good for her years. She looks younger in the picture from 2006 than she did in 2004! Vacancy There is a vacancy for a tea maker for the Queen, if you fancy the job. It sounds pretty glamorous, making tea for the Queen, there is a catch however, for anyone who aspires to fill the vacant post of Coffee room assistant will of course need to know their way around a tea pot and strainer, but theyll also need a firm grasp of dog handling. Rarely does the Queen take afternoon tea without her beloved corgis at her side. According to palace servants, theyre rather fond of getting in the way of people trying to serve tea. It sounds like a nice cosy job looking after the coffee room and making sure everything is in place for Her Majesty, according to one servant, but the corgis bite is worse than their bark and they can be a pretty bad tempered breed. So if youre applying for the job of tea maker to the Queen, you will work in Buckingham Palace, but youll have to put up with half a dozen corgis, or however many it is. Christmas We always have a Christmas tree at Look North. Im not sure what day were putting our tree up, but I wouldnt mind betting itll be sooner rather than later because Christmas might only be 18 days away, but youd never actually know it from watching BBC Breakfast television. Viewers have noticed that its ITV rival GMTV, have their Christmas tree up, but watch Dermot Murnaghan and Kate Silverton, and theyre noticeably short of Christmas cheer. There have been emails, texts and phone calls demanding to know where its tinsel and tree were, asking if its another example of the corporations political correctness. Yesterday they scored a victory when the BBC announced that its decorations, originally planned to be installed on December 18th will now go up on this Monday. The programme editor said I guess this represents a victory for the viewer. Some of our emailers and texters were polite, and some were concerned, and some just forgot about the season of good will in their c! hoice of words. There you are, if you watch BBC breakfast news, their tree will be up on Monday. Will ours? I dont know, I think next Monday is maybe a bit soon so the Monday after that would probably be about right, but what do I know? Charity I just want to mention one Look North viewer going beyond the call of duty to raise money for charity. Steve Andrews from the Hildreds Centre in Skegness emailed in to say On Friday 15th of December at 12 pm I will be dressing up as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and having my legs waxed for charity. It will be in aid of St Barnabus Hospice for terminally ill patients in Sutton on Sea in Lincolnshire. The idea is that customers can donate £1 and rip a strip off me. This will be done in the specially created Wizard of Oz grotto that we have made in the centre. Well good luck to Steve, and if youre in the area on that day then make sure you pop in to help raise money for that, even though come the end of the day Steve might wish you hadnt! Books Dont forget if youve got some books that you particularly want to recommend to readers of the Levy Letter then let me know. Im just starting to read another autobiography, this one is called Hello, and its by Leslie Phillips. Im sure itll be a very good read from a wonderful actor. I had the pleasure of interviewing him a couple of years ago so Im looking forward to reading this one. So any books you highly recommend, then let me know, but please dont say Frozen in Time by Paul Hudson and Ian McCaskill, because I already know about it. Have a very good weekend, and dont forget if you do talk to anyone whos not signed up to the Levy Letter and theyd like one, then point them in the direction of the Levy Letter, the address is at the bottom of the page, and get them to sign up over the weekend. Theyll get their first Levy Letter on Monday. Have a nice weekend, bye for now. 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