It's turned nasty again for the South

» By namita | the 08-29-2009 at 00:27 | 94 views (41 unique) | 1 comment | Report post!

There's more pressure now not to be London-centric," admits Clare Nasir, the GMTV weather girl. "Almost all the weather programmes are broadcast out of London, but you will rarely find weather presenters saying the word 'London'. I find myself giving the Isle of Harris much more air time than the capital. Sometimes you would say that it is politically correct, but I think it's hard to get a balance when you have two minutes to cover the whole country. People do get left out – we get most of our complaints from people in the Channel Islands."

She adds: "You could argue that city workers in offices don't need to know the weather in the same way that people who live off the land do, so perhaps we have got it right. Larger population centres normally have a bit more benign weather while the extremities, like the north of Scotland and Ireland, have more interesting weather."

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the 08-29-2009 at 01:59

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I lived in the Channel Islands did we get left out of the weather or were you London folks just so envious of our weather it was not reported ??

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