But without the pop-ups and cookies, it wouldn't be free.

You can always pay a subscription to the Met Office to avoid (what I readily
agree) are annoying pop-ups.

I can live with them, except that really irritating one that sometimes
appears at the bottom and continually giggles around telling me that I have
won some prize or other.

Eric. That one really is most irritating. Any chance of making it a static
image so it doesn't cause incipient epilepsy?

Jack