On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:03:24 -0000, Col wrote:

But not knowing that salt water freezes?? Somebody who has reached the
very top of the British broadcasting media, who must surely have a
reasonable intelligence/knowledge and not knowing that?

It beggars belief.

Does it? "Breakfast" is hardly the top of British broadcasting. The
presenters are just general hack journalists, any knowledge of
science is accidental. They'll have arts based degrees not science
ones...

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.