Metric Views

Sky News are currently giving weather forecasts for individual cities on their morning show in the form of icons in the corner of the screen.

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Highway authorities have provided metric and Polish language signage for Polish motorists but continue to ban metric signs for the rest of us. (more…)

Britain’s department for trade and industry (DTI) has recently published a letter advocating continued derogation on using supplementary indications.

[Article by Roddy Urquhart]

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The news that bird flu has broken out at a turkey farm near Holton, Suffolk  illustrates once again the difficulty that the Government has in trying to run with an  “official”  system of weights and measures while doing nothing to encourage its use.

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