Here's a longer version of the story from the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508252&in_page_id=1770

Ezra

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From: "Michael Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It is amazing how wrong the news media has been in reporting the fact in 
> this EU measurement debate. From my understanding the only thing that 
> happened was the requirement for metric only labeling from 2010 was removed. 
> It did not allow people to start selling anything in pounds again, as this 
> woman obviously thought.
> Again she appears to have been using a scale that had not been tested by 
> Weights and Measures. The real facts are missing from this story.
> 
> Mike Payne
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> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2008 01:03
> Subject: [USMA:40100] East London trader taken to court for selling in 
> Imperial only
> 
> 
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7191380.stm
> > 
> 

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