Hop 3 and hop 4 were always problematic for me. They DO drop packets - or at least they did on my connection and it gets significantly worse as the evening goes on. Sunday evening is a proper PITA.
However it looks like being near Manchester (network-wise) gives you some resilience which I didn't have as you're taking different routes to peering points which I never did
You won't actually be peering there (LINX etc) much but it does look much better than my traceroutes did on Be.
You can only suck it and see but it looks better than I expected