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Old March 22nd 10, 06:21 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default ... here we go again!

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Dawlish writes:
Just ignore them. They've managed an excellent publicity coup for
their company, on a poor summer forecasting track record, by playing
to the Mail's politics and dislike of....well anything that will sell
newspapers to their target audience really.


They also managed to get a short piece on the front page of the
Telegraph. I suppose that because most newspaper people know next to
nothing about the weather, they accept whatever guff they are fed in
press releases at face value.
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John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)