Globepost
This is the first Christmas that anyone travelling on our motorways really couldn’t avoid signs measuring distance in – whisper it – kilometers.
Every 500 meters or so along just about every motorway – and some trunk roads – in Britain, one of these blue signs helpfully tells the the stranded, mobile-phone wielding, motorist not only which road and carriageway she’s on but how many kilometers she is along it. Not miles. Not even good old British furlongs or barleycorns (which is a shame). But evil revolutionary French kilometers.

Telegraph
2010 is the year that imperial measures would have ended, if they hadn't been vigorously defended, says Christopher Booker
We all might wish a happy New Year to John Gardner, director of the British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA), set up in 1995 in response to this column's coverage of the EU's determination to make Britain an exclusively metric country. In 2002, in deference to Brussels, Parliament nodded through two regulations which would have made it, as of last Friday, a criminal offence for businesses to make any reference whatever to non-metric weights and measures. To talk of a "quarterpounder" beefburger or a "15.4 inch" computer screen would have become illegal.

Politics.co.uk
Now we see the EU for what it is: secretive, anti-democratic and alien. Those who love Europe should oppose it.
By Ian Dunt
I'm Eurosceptic, not Europhobic. I don't see how the other side managed to claim the word Europhile. Just because they love the EU certainly doesn't mean they love Europe.
I'm Eurosceptic, and a Europhile. I'm in love with the place. After university, I went travelling around the continent for a year. I started in Calais, and made it to Beirut (I overshot a little) before flying home. I am a proud European. I don't care what the name of my currency is, I don't care about the metric martyrs. You can weigh my vegetables in some newfound alien unit system, but as long as I get what I pay for I'll be indifferent.

Gordon Brown apologises to gay Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for 'appalling' persecution
Daily Mail
By Ian Drury
Last updated at 2:53 PM on 11th September 2009
Gordon Brown last night issued a posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being gay.
The Prime Minister said he was 'deeply sorry' for the inhumane treatment of the Cambridge mathematician  -  53 years after his death.
Thirty thousand people had signed a petition seeking an apology for Mr Turing, who was  credited by Winston Churchill with making the biggest single contribution to the Allied victory in World War II.

Sunderland Echo
12.07.09

Press Release: Immediate

Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
World Famous Actor pays tribute to 'People's Champion' Metric Martyr Steve Thoburn

Veteran actor Edward Fox has penned a moving tribute to Metric Martyr Steve Thoburn for a book in aid of injured soldiers.

The star of films including The Day of the Jackal, A Bridge Too Far and Gandhi, described the late Sunderland greengrocer as a "people's champion" in the Food for Heroes cookbook, which will benefit the charity Help for Heroes. 

 

 

BBC's metric weights in rugby coverage sparks anger
Sunday Telegraph
On-screen graphics explaining the weight of each player and the combined power of each team appear in kilograms became the imperial system of stones and pounds confuses those watching the coverage from abroad.
The Six Nations is not only watched by 4.5million viewers in the UK but also by overseas audiences via domestic channels which pay to screen the Corporation's footage.

METRIC MARTYR WITHDRAWS APPEAL
Hackney Gazette
Supporters of Hackney's metric martyr have said she chose not to appeal her convictions for breaking metric laws because of the "stress and strain" the legal battle has caused.
Janet Devers, 64, was given a two-year conditional discharge last year after being found guilty of eight charges relating to her refusal to abandon imperial scales on her Ridley Road market stall.

Metric martyr ditches appeal
Metro
A market trader today dropped her appeal against previous convictions for breaking the metric laws.
So-called metric martyr Janet Devers, 64, was last year found guilty of eight charges under the Weights and Measurements Act relating to the refusal to abandon imperial weighing scales on her fruit and vegetable store at Ridley Road Market in Dalston, east London.

Metric martyr Janet Devers drops appeal against conviction for using imperial measures
Daily Telegraph
Janet Devers, a "metric martyr" market trader, has dropped her appeal against a conviction for selling fruit and vegetables in imperial measures.
Mrs Devers, 64, was last year found guilty of eight charges under the Weights and Measurements Act. She had refused to replace imperial weighing scales on her fruit and vegetable stall at Ridley Road Market in Dalston, east London.