On Saturday, 9 August 2014 10:33:06 UTC+1, John Hall wrote: But it /isn't/ free - or not if one pays any tax anyway. One might as well use the same argument about the NHS or the fire brigade. -- John Hall

Exactly; it's supposed to be a public service but is simply getting worse and worse. R4 forecasts have descended into the impressionistic rather than factual. Step forward, Claude Monet, your time has come. I never want to hear how the weather will *feel*. Just give me a weather element and *I* will tell *you* how it feels, which may well be different from what the next person feels. The public is being simultaneously edged out and infantilised.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.