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Dear BBC News 24,

I was watching your channel last night at about 7pm and your weather man - sorry - meteorological forecast analyst, was predicting the unseasonably low temperatures over the next coming days.

After telling the viewers that it was going to be cold, he said, in a friendly way: “I’m not going to be the nanny and tell you what that means. You know what to do.”

I love him.

How refreshing to not have a weather forecaster tell us to pack a brolly or wrap up warm. It was a blow to the patronising attitude with which we are treated by all figures of authority.

If the traffic is bad, we don’t need to be told to set off early, we just want to know how long the delays are.

If I am driving in a school zone, I don’t also need to know they speed limit in a built up area, or to be reminded that speed kills and have additional signs depicting children walking.

If we kept being reminded of all these things, we will become the walking dead.

So hats and gloves off to the News 24 weatherman at 7pm on Monday 22 January for telling it like it is and leaving it at that.

Sincerely,

Cliff Jones

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