Hello, it's Peter here. Welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day's going well and you'll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at half past six. We'll have all the day's news including a possible pigeon cull in Hull. Some call the birds vermin, but of course they also have their fans. Well be looking into this a little later today.
Find out why 40 birds of prey are at risk in a local aviary. Well speak to a man given 24 hours to live, whos now running the London Marathon! Its an extraordinary story. Well also speak to two female fire fighters challenged to take up an intensive training course with the Hull Fire Service. And we have the story of two former RAF comrades who are meeting again for the first time since one of them was shot down in 1939. Lisa will be there will the forecast, and there will be all the rest of the days stories and news at the usual time, half past six on BBC One. Emails Dont forget, if youve got a story you want to tell me, a story you think we might be able to do on the programme or a problem you think we might be able to deal with or a photo you think we should see then send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Food A couple of interesting stories on the subject of food. A small drop in the amount of salts that we consume has saved 3,500 lives a year. Its an extraordinary story, but research has shown that the average person has cut his or her intake of salt by half a gram since all the publicity. Thats since 2001. Thats roughly 9 grams a day. The fall is enough to have prevented almost 7,000 heart attacks and strokes a year, half of which would have been fatal. The figure is still well short of the target the government has set to reduce salt intake to 6 grams a day. Now I never put salt actually on food, the only salt I take is the salt thats already in food, but it seems that since the publicity that salts bad for us, we dont throw it on our food quite as much as we did, and I think thats true for most people. You have the cruet at home, or the two salt and pepper things and you only actually use the pepper one. Still on the subject of food, it seems that according to a new report thats come from a food guru, that we eat the same old food over and over again. The menus that we have at home are steak and chips, fish and chips, sausage and mash, stews, spaghetti Bolognese, burger and chips, and chicken tikka masala. Those are the favourites that we eat over and over again. In the average lifetime, the average person eats spaghetti Bolognese around 2,960 times. Thats the equivalent of once a day for eight years. Im not sure theres an awful lot in that. If youve got children, there are some foods apparently that can calm your children, and some make them hyperactive. Calming foods for your children include lamb, rice, chicken, bananas, apple, and cabbage. Aggressive or hyperactive children should be made calmer by changes in their diet. Food thats likely to make children hyper active include chocolate no surprise there grapes, thats a funny one. Oranges, biscuits, cheese, and eggs. There we are. Maureen Lipman Shes one of our favourite actresses in this country, she was born in Hull of course. Last week we saw her in the special comic relief version of The Apprentice, where she was about the only one with common sense, she really did get her sleeves rolled up and work. Well some great news for Maureen. Shes to get married again three years after losing her husband to cancer. She revealed that shes engaged to Scottish businessman David Gordon, whos the same age as her at 60. Maureen is of course best known for those TV adverts for British Telecom. She was devastated when she lost her husband of nearly 30 years, the writer and author Jack Rosenthal. Then she met David in November and friends say he swept her off her feet. So there we are, great news for a lovely lady, who came to see us in this building one time last year. We wish her and David all the best. Well thats it from me today, join me tonight if you can on BBC One at half past six for tonights Look North. If theres anyone you know thats not signed up to the Levy Letter and theyd like one, then get them to go to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, and sign up. Theyll get their daily Levy Letter from me every day. Thats all from me, 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
