Sunday Telegraph Letters
SIR – I would like to congratulate David and Samantha Cameron on the birth of their daughter, who, it was announced, weighed a healthy 6lb 1oz.
When the late Steve Thoburn’s son was born in 2002 he announced the birth weight as 3,790 grams and said: “If birth weights were announced in metric most people wouldn’t have a clue whether the baby was the size of a small tomato or a premature hippopotamus.”
Let us hope that Mr Cameron and the Coalition do the decent thing and announce that it will be their intention to move towards a pardon for the five Metric Martyr traders convicted under the metrication regulations and let justice prevail, allowing us to inch towards a victory for common sense.
Neil Herron
Campaign Director
Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
Boldon, Tyne and Wear

The Shields Gazette
27th August 2010
I WOULD like to congratulate David and Samantha Cameron on the birth of their daughter, who weighed in at a healthy 6lb 1oz.
It is nice to see they have followed in the footsteps of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who both announced the birth weights of their children in Imperial measures.
The difference with the Labour prime ministers and Mr Cameron was that their Government was actively prosecuting market traders and shopkeepers for using such Imperial measures.