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 -------------- Original message ---------------------- 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 > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > >
