Hope we don't lose Carol Kirkwood!

It came as a bit of a shock to realise that the Met Office charge for their services. If I thought about it at all, I always assumed that they were a public service paid for by the public purse.  But it appears not, and it seems that the BBC, who have used them to provide their weather forecasts for nearly a century, can no longer afford them. They intend to put the contract to supply them with weather forecasts out to tender, and as from next year we may be getting our weather information from some foreign organisation.  All seems wrong, somehow.