dumbing down the weather forecast

from BBC Online comes the news that "Television weather forecasters may soon use simpler terms for their predictions".

is the great British public really unable to understand "chilly in isolated areas"?

aaargh

bloody Telewest have managed to cut off our caller ID. Which means that when people phone, WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. And they're generally clients.

clients with no warning is *not good*.

well *done*, Barbara Clark

"All women with early stage breast cancer are to be tested to see if they could benefit from the drug Herceptin, the government has announced."

more here (BBC Online)