This is really petty and I know others have complained previously but the BBC in depth weather map seems to be very biased to the South. Only being able to find the overview on their website I include this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOGt-NlfLE

The south west seems particularly represented by towns with St. Ives, Newquay, Barnstaple, Falmouth, Plymouth, Taunton and Exeter all highlighted with 25 to 45 miles seperating many of these towns and cities. The area to the west of London appears to be well marked as High Wycombe, Basingstoke and Luton are all identified but in the north east the nearest town to Newcastle is over 60 miles away on the other side of the country in Carlisle and after that you have to go 90 miles out to reach Leeds and Scarborough. East Anglia curiously has King's Lynn, Cambridge, Ipswich and Colchester with the latter two only 19 miles apart yet does not mention Norwich. That, I think, is my main point: the selection of the towns seems quite random with no thought of having an approximate equidistance between them so that most areas have an urban centre to identify with or even just listing the most prominent major conurbations in terms of size or history. Aside from Norwich a number of other towns or cities have been omitted including Sheffield, York, Durham, Middlesbrough, Reading and Oxford. I appreciate that there is a limited amount of space but it is a bit southern heavy when the idea of putting them on is to see somewhere close to you to get a better gist of the weather in your area in which case why do Devon and Cornwall have three towns each wrote on the map but the entire north east only has Newcastle to get its bearings.
   I am fully aware of the slight tongue in cheek chip I have but it is not the only instance of the BBC (as much as I love the institution) not paying as much regard to the north. The fact that any news story that happened down south saw a report being filed by the relevant specialist correspondent had a similar story being filed by the"North of England Reporter". For instance if a school closed in Devizes then the Education Correspondent would provide the details, but if the school was in Sunderland then the North of England Reporter would get the gig. Similarly a stabbing in Margate would see the Crime Correspondent rush to the seen whereas the overworked North of England reporter would be clocking up the Green Shield stamps if a similar incident was reported in Manchester.
   Whilst a certain degree of metrocentricity is unavoidable it would be nice if the occasional non patronising acknowledgement that there is life outside the capital took place now and again.