For those who haven't seen it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2349813.stm
You may also be interested in the story that appeared in Saturday's Times: Litre of beer gets trader in hot water BRITAIN has a new and unexpected form of metric martyr, a trader threatened With prosecution because she uses, rather than refuses, metric measures. The Metric Martyrs Defence Fund, hitherto devoted to the support of British retailers refusing to abandon imperial pounds and ounces, announced yesterday that it would rally to the cause Andrea Schultz, who runs an Austrian theme restaurant in Worcester. Ms Schultz has run foul of local trading standards officers because she sells beer in one-litre stoneware mugs, as used in Bavaria and Austria. She was also delighted to hear that Liberty, the human rights organisation, has offered to defend her in the event of any legal action. The United Kingdom's regulations require that fruit should be sold in grams and kilograms and wine and water in litres and centilitres, but draught beer in pints or fractions thereof. Chris Keenan, chairman of the United Kingdom Metric Association, said that UK regulations were anachronistic and inconsistent. He said: "It is ridiculous that the British public buy petrol, orange juice, wine, water and canned or bottled beer in litre-based quantities but is forbidden to buy draught beer in anything other than pints. The solution to the ridiculous situation Ms Schultz faces is not to break the law but to reform it." Mr Keenan said that the relevant European directive had always given Britain the freedom to sell draught beer using litre measures. It was successive British governments that had decided to keep a ban on litre-measures for sales of draught beer and cider. Among those who have fallen foul was Nigel France, of the Dolphin Tavern, Slough. He was fined �3,100 plus �210 costs in August 1992 for going metric. -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
