Sunday Telegraph Letters
SIR – I would like to congratulate David and Samantha Cameron on the birth of their daughter, who, it was announced, weighed a healthy 6lb 1oz.
When the late Steve Thoburn’s son was born in 2002 he announced the birth weight as 3,790 grams and said: “If birth weights were announced in metric most people wouldn’t have a clue whether the baby was the size of a small tomato or a premature hippopotamus.”
Let us hope that Mr Cameron and the Coalition do the decent thing and announce that it will be their intention to move towards a pardon for the five Metric Martyr traders convicted under the metrication regulations and let justice prevail, allowing us to inch towards a victory for common sense.
Neil Herron
Campaign Director
Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
Boldon, Tyne and Wear

The Shields Gazette
27th August 2010
I WOULD like to congratulate David and Samantha Cameron on the birth of their daughter, who weighed in at a healthy 6lb 1oz.
It is nice to see they have followed in the footsteps of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who both announced the birth weights of their children in Imperial measures.
The difference with the Labour prime ministers and Mr Cameron was that their Government was actively prosecuting market traders and shopkeepers for using such Imperial measures.

West End Extra
by JAMIE WELHAM
ANTI-terror laws have been used by Westminster Council to snoop on members of the public 82 times since 2005.
City Hall authorised surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on greengrocers refusing to convert from imperial to metric measure, investigate an anti-social “street preacher”, monitor retailers suspected of selling knives to children and identify dog-owners who allow pets to foul the pavements.

Daily Mail
By Christopher Leake
Last updated at 1:01 PM on 27th June 2010
British shoppers are to be banned from buying eggs by the dozen under new regulations approved by the European Parliament.
For the first time, eggs and ­other products such as oranges and bread rolls will be sold by weight instead of by the number contained in a packet.
Until now, Britain has been exempt from EU regulations that forbid the selling of goods by number. But last week MEPs voted to end Britain’s deal despite objections from UK members.

Daily Telegraph
The law lord ruling that backed the sacking of a Christian relationship counsellor was irrational, says Christopher Booker
Lord Justice Laws last week ruled that Gary McFarlane was rightly given the sack as a relationship counsellor for refusing to give "sex therapy lessons" to gay couples because it was against his Christian principles. According to Laws, "law for the protection of a position held purely on religious grounds is irrational, divisive, capricious, arbitrary".

The Ecologist
Molly Scott Cato
Molly would glady have been tied to the stake with the other Metric Martyrs... but, being that she wasn't, she's keen to point out why weights and measures matter to all
My inability to cope with metric measurements is a source of endless amusement to my children. My second son, who is now studying medicine at Cambridge, has to be called in on an annual basis to measure the dried fruits for the Christmas puddings, while my daughter has recalibrated my cake recipes by working out that an egg, which I still think of as 2 oz., actually weighs 100g. If economics must be, as it would seem from the academy, a matter of numerical precision, then you will have to count me out.
 

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Statecraft by Lady Thatcher, 2002
Britain and Europe - Time to renegotiate
.... It sometimes happens that almost overnight a course of action which has previously been dismissed as unthinkable becomes a matter of sheer commonsense.  I witnessed such a turnaround when as British Prime Minister after our 1979 election victory I led a government which up-ended Keynesian economic orthodoxy and substituted monetarist policies deemed unthinkable by the post-war political consensus.

Daily Mail Letters Page
Labour has the cheek to announce 'new powers preserving the pint and
the mile come into force today after the Government's success in Europe'.

It was public protest, lead largely by the Metric Martyrs and the
British Weights & Measures Association, that made the EU realise how
unpopular its was edict, that we were to be stopped from using
traditional measurements.

Our craven Government is merely meekly complying with the EU
retraction of needless regulation.

What's next? Will we need permission from the all-powerful EU to breathe?

>Michael Plumbe
>Hastings

Belfast Telegraph
By David Prosser
Gordon Brown often talks about how politicians must take tough decisions, but he won't have faced too many dilemmas like the one that's troubled Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in recent days.