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BBC dumps Met Office for rival forecaster - Paul Rigby - 23-08-2015 The successful competitor in action: [video=youtube_share;_iuRgdF3DfY]http://youtu.be/_iuRgdF3DfY[/video] Nearly a century of accuracy is being tossed: [video=youtube_share;NnxjZ-aFkjs]http://youtu.be/NnxjZ-aFkjs[/video] More on this enormous story: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract BBC dumps Met Office for rival forecaster - David Guyatt - 24-08-2015 I understand that the cheaper provider of future Beeb weather will be buying their weather forecasts directly from the Met Office anyway. Ergo, the qualified meteorologists used by the Met Office as Beeb weather presenters currently will get the chop and be replaced by ordinary unqualified presenters. The savings will largely go into the profit line of the new Beeb provider. Such is today's ethic of privitization and economic imperative. My suspicion is that we will need to check out the ownership/directorship of the yet to be chosen new provider just to see if present or past Beeb senior staff (or family) are coincidentally tangled up with them. Otherwise, look at the same ownership to see if members or family of members of the current government are involved. Yours suspiciously, Raining Dough