http://pages.thisislondon.co.uk:80/html/news.html Metric martyr 'did it for customers' London's first "metric martyr" was defiant today after being found guilty of selling fruit and vegetables in imperial measures and ordered to pay �4,000 legal costs. Market trader Colin Hunt, 52, speaking outside Thames magistrates' court, Bow, vowed to carry on selling in the old measures. "I'm doing this for the customers. My mum would have been proud of me," he said. Trading standard officers visited his stall in Ridley Road market, Hackney, in September, and found items displayed for sale in pounds. Hunt, of Woodford Green, said he had bought a metric scale but customers found it confusing. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge. Metric martyr 'did it for customers' London's first "metric martyr" was defiant today after being found guilty of selling fruit and vegetables in imperial measures and ordered to pay �4,000 legal costs. Market trader Colin Hunt, 52, speaking outside Thames magistrates' court, Bow, vowed to carry on selling in the old measures. "I'm doing this for the customers. My mum would have been proud of me," he said. Trading standard officers visited his stall in Ridley Road market, Hackney, in September, and found items displayed for sale in pounds. Hunt, of Woodford Green, said he had bought a metric scale but customers found it confusing. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge. Chris -- UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
