Tourism boss threatens to sue over inaccurate predictions

A tourism boss is threatening to sue over inaccurate weather predictions.

Ashford Price – who runs the National Showcaves in Wales, an 11-mile system of caves in the Brecon Beacons, as well as a dinosaur park - wants to obtain compensation for inaccurate Met Office predictions which have affected tourism at his attractions.

He is quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: “There are too many gloom and doom reports.

"Forecasters say early in the week the weekend weather will be bad only for it to turn out free of rain and wind.

“My legal team is looking at whether compensation can be claimed for Welsh tourism operators when forecasts are completely wrong.”

However, legal experts said that such action would be tough to carry out.

A spokeswoman for lawyers Irwin Mitchell said: “There would need to be a contract between the forecaster and the individual with duty of care for a breach to be recognised.”

A Met Office spokesman said that predictions tend to be correct six days out of seven.