On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:59:31 -0800 (PST), Alastair
wrote:

On Jan 17, 12:11*am, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Phil Layton" wrote in message

...http://entertainment.timesonline.co....ertainment/tv_...

Phil
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Guildford, Surrey

www.layton.me.uk/meteo.htm

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Why not - I mean privatisation of the Railways, *Oil Companies, hospital
cleaning etc. has worked well for us so far.

Not to mention the banks!

It's just a bit of self promotion by the NZ company, they know as well
as the rest of us that the BBC wouldn't dare to dump the Met Office.
But the beeb no doubt must be seen to put out "competitive tenders".

God help us if we ever get into accepting the lowest tender - we'd
probably end up with someone like Weather Action doing it all.

The article even implies that the Met Office only use their own model
data, which is obviously untrue.... whereas others use everyone's
data...

In my opinion, it's a non-story, the switch won't happen.

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Dave