But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.

BBC: News - Today - BBC Weather Test: Setting course

Members of the development control committee, which met on Wednesday, had again been urged to reject the application re-submitted in July.

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