O.K. Rant mode on.

I am getting pi**ed off to the back teeth with the BBC's coverage of
both news and weather, constantly referring to their, or Fred Blogg's,
web site for "more information", "the full story", or "further details".
Their weather forecasting bulletins are particularly prone to this sort
of coverage. Too often we hear "the met office have issued several
weather warnings", but never do they actually say what these warnings
are in respect of or what parts of the country are affected. It is about
time the BBC realised that not everyone has internet access, and that
they should publicly air details of these warnings as a service to their
viewing public, as well as publicising (or publishing?) the work being
done by the met office at our expense.

Rant mode off.

Pretty sight this morning with the 1cm cover of snow over everything,
but a hell of a job getting off the estate both on foot and by bus due
to the non-gritting of roads in the area.

jim, Northampton

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jbm writes:
Too often we hear "the met office have issued several weather
warnings", but never do they actually say what these warnings are
in respect of or what parts of the country are affected. It is about
time the BBC realised that not everyone has internet access, and
that they should publicly air details of these warnings as a service
to their viewing public, as well as publicising (or publishing?) the
work being done by the met office at our expense.

To be fair, the warnings can be found without having to access the Net,
by using the red button or text button on the TV or set-top box.
--
John Hall

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde

On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:47:35 +0000, jbm wrote:

It is about time the BBC realised that not everyone has internet
access, and that they should publicly air details of these warnings as
a service to their viewing public,

+1

Pretty sight this morning with the 1cm cover of snow over everything,
but a hell of a job getting off the estate both on foot and by bus due
to the non-gritting of roads in the area.

On foot has no excuse really just get a set of those elasticated gripy things
for your boots/shoes. And if 1cm os snow is screwing the traffic up do all
the vehicles down there have slicks on?

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