Today's Independent gives coverage (might be at www.independent.co.uk under
"Behind the scenes...") to the 'infiltration' of the Palace staff by a Mirror
reporter. He is quoted as saying: "My role was to take the tray 20 metres to
the page's vestibule and hand it to the page, who then carried it another
eight metres to the Queen in her dining room." The Times uses this, but not
in quotes, and the metres strangely metamorphise into yards. I couldn't find
any mention in the Telegraph. I wonder if those distances were the reporter's
estimates, or if they were, in fact, laid down somewhere in the Palace
protocols.
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Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk
