Ben Bradshaw, a former Culture Secretary who is the MP for the Exeter constituency, said in a tweet that he was extremely alarmed to hear that the BBC had dropped the Met Office in favour of foreign weather-forecasting services, and called on the Government to step in.
The industry is a volatile one, subject to seasonal and longer-term shifts in fish stocks, foreign competition, weather conditions, and credit availability; it has thus become highly dependent on government regulation and support.
It is a basic confusion of cause and effect, an apparently genuine conviction that what has been holding England back all these years is the failure to build its own luxury hotel, a lack of fancy exercise bikes and above all the absence of an altitude chamber capable of mimicking the two-yearly surprise – the outrage – of foreign-style weather.
An avalanche and blizzard in Nepal's mountainous north have killed at least 12 people, including foreign trekkers, as weather conditions improved.
Pedro Malan, Brazil's Finance Minister, said that the country had sufficient foreign reserves to weather the currency run.
His book is an adventure story, made up of descriptions of foreign ports, stormy weather, and attacks by pirates, but it is also an enduring celebration of American fortitude and self-reliance, very much in the tradition of Thoreau's "Walden" and "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".
The 133-page study looks at effects of the cuts in nearly every facet of society, from public health and to scientific research, to foreign affairs and weather monitoring.
There's nothing particularly original about the plot, which consists of a series of predictable spy scenarios -- a foreign city, inclement weather, amnesia, car chases, the Cold War, evil multinationals.
Many foreign companies have weathered disputes over their intellectual property in China.
