Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope your weekend was good. And did you bag the winner in the Grand National? We had a sweep here, but I was not the winner of it unfortunately. Ive been doing these sweeps for about thirty years now at work and Ive never actually won one yet, so I dont see why this year should be any different!
Anyway, I hope your weekend was good and here we are at the start of another week. I hope youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Ill have all the days news and also tonight, Ill be speaking with a Lincolnshire man, whos so fed up with motorists speeding through his quiet village of Glentham that hes built his own fake speed camera. Despite recent fatal accidents on the roads around the village there were previously no speed cameras to try and slow motorists down. Ill be speaking to the Road Safety Partnership to see what more can be done. More on this later. Time is also ticking away for the decision about the future of the X1 bus that travels daily between Grimsby and Hull. Ill be speaking with the MP Austin Mitchell on this one. Ill also be getting an update on the family, who travelled down to Carlisle to see the Grimsby Town match at the weekend and I mentioned last week about Look Norths new series starting where Im getting all green fingered! Ill be introducing our new series with a taste of things to come over the following weeks. I hope you can join me then. Rumours There have been lots of rumours of a possible Royal wedding on the cards. Theres plenty of coverage of that at the moment. There are pictures of course of Charles and Camilla one year on. Its hard to believe isnt it that its a year since their wedding? Anyway, an official picture was published yesterday and of course there are the rumours and the strong signals that Prince William could soon marry Kate Middleton. These rumours have emerged after security around the pair of them has been tightened up. There are a few Royal stories from the papers. Of course, also this weekend, much has been made about the fact that a choc a day could keep the doctor away. In other words, that a piece of chocolate a day is now, surprise surprise, good for us! One of the things thats not so good for us is smoking of course. And it seems, that if you give up smoking, you put on weight. Well, theres pictures in the paper of Charlotte Church, who has finally given up smoking, but seemingly at the expense of her figure. She is now really quite rounded and chubby! Anyway, thats what the papers are saying about her anyway. The singer had been criticised for damaging her classically trained voice by puffing away through twenty-five cigarettes a day. Shes now managed to stop smoking completely, but in the three months since giving up, she has noticeably gained weight. This is the phenomenon, which puts off many women from giving up the habit. Well, the health expert, Dr Trisha McNair, said that giving up smoking often went hand in hand with! weight gain. She said, weight control is one of the biggest factors, which induces people to smoke, especially girls and worries them about giving up, but with a bit of thought, and some different strategies, you can stop smoking without putting on weight. And theres a picture of Charlotte Church in the paper and I think she looks absolutely fabulous. So if thats what giving up smoking does for you, then thats not a problem and giving up smoking is the main thing. Living Longer Still on the subject of health, (Im like Gillian McKeith today arent I?), eating less really can lead to a longer life, so say scientists. The first study on a calorie controlled diet resulted in reduced signs of ageing. It found that just six months on the regime cut volunteers chances of developing diseases associated with old age, such as cancer. So there you are. They found that a fifteen hundred calorie a day diet might include breakfast at three hundred calories, lunch at four hundred calories French bread with reduced fat cheese and pickle, dinner at five hundred and fifty calories skinless chicken breast, boiled new potatoes and vegetables, a snack at one hundred and fifty calories - fruit, wholemeal toast and ham and half a pint of skimmed milk. Well, thats what you can have throughout the day at fifteen hundred calories a day, which will help you live longer. Either that or itll feel like youre living longer!! Your thoughts on that and indeed on anything ! else, then please email in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And dont forget that if youve got any photographs that you think I might like to see any funny ones or serious ones, or any views for our Big Screen, then get in touch. Or do you have a problem that you think I might be able to tackle on your behalf in Leave it to Levy? Then give me the details and also a contact telephone number as well and Ill look into it for you. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pens Yes, theyve had plenty of coverage, but the Peter Levy, Levy Letter pens are still available now to you all as you are subscribers to the Levy Letter. If you want one, then send me a stamped addressed envelope and send it to Peter Levy, BBC Look North, Queen's Court, Queen's Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Send me a stamped addressed envelope and the pen will be sent back to you by return of post! Frankie Howard One of the newspapers this weekend gave away a free DVD of Up Pompeii. I had to buy the paper just to get the DVD. Its a classic series of course with Frankie Howard. Ive been reading up on Frankie and his house down in the South of England is just as he left it with his partner. And its going to be open for several days during the summer for people to go and look around. But also Frankies wig was buried in the back garden of this house and they dug the wig up so it could be on display in the house! It sounds a bit strange doesnt it? Hes a very funny guy though. I had the pleasure of meeting him once. I interviewed him actually in his dressing room at Yorkshire Television. He was up in Leeds doing 3-2-1 do you remember that one with Ted Rogers? Well, I went to interview him and he was a really nice guy quite a character! He was a complex sort of man, and serious as well, but he did a great interview and he was great to talk to. But his house is now going to be open! to the public on certain dates throughout the summer and I would love to go, just out of curiosity! Anyway, thats it from me for today. Have a very good day and join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Look out for your Levy Letter again tomorrow. 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
