Met Office duffers get £1.4m bonus

Matthew Sinclair, research director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “With many of their seasonal forecasts proving spectacularly wrong and ordinary taxpayers struggling following the recession, it is shocking that the Met Office thinks big bonuses for its staff are appropriate.

Guest columnist Mark Howarth on scientist claims about marmots. | News Of The World

But the real astonishing scientific achievement here is how these geeks have managed the impossible... alchemy in reverse.

They have taken heaps of taxpayers' gold and magically transformed it into a bucket of pish.

Countryside has been 'overlooked' amid climate change battle - Telegraph

Important issues affecting the countryside have been overlooked because of the focus on the problems of climate change, campaigners have said.

This talk of wind farms is so much hot air - Telegraph

The Lib Dems' championing of alternative energy will leave us all in the dark, says Clive Aslet.