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chrisseaton on Aug 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract ...

> the Shipping Forecast is not a met office thing

Isn't it? It always starts with 'And now the shipping forecast issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, at...'

DanBC on Aug 23, 2015 [–]

Ah, yes. Sorry.

The met office provide the data to the Maritime and Coastguard agency, who then provide that to the BBC. The presenters are BBC staff, not Met Office staff. So there's no change to the Shipping Forecast.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1181929...

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