Monthly Archives: February 2007

Degrees of confusion

Posted on 2007-02-27 by Isaac

Sky News are currently giving weather forecasts for individual cities on their morning show in the form of icons in the corner of the screen.

Posted in Media | 16 Comments

Polish language signs highlight signage mess

Posted on 2007-02-16 by Roddy Urquhart

Highway authorities have provided metric and Polish language signage for Polish motorists but continue to ban metric signs for the rest of us.

Posted in Road signs | 6 Comments

DTI claim that removing supplementary indications will be a barrier to trade

Posted on 2007-02-05 by philh

Britain’s department for trade and industry (DTI) has recently published a letter advocating continued derogation on using supplementary indications. [Article by Roddy Urquhart]

Posted in Consumer affairs | 10 Comments

Suffolk bird flu outbreak illustrates Government mess on measurement

Posted on 2007-02-03 by Roddy Urquhart

The news that bird flu has broken out at a turkey farm near Holton, Suffolk  illustrates once again the difficulty that the Government has in trying to run with an  ”official” system of weights and measures while doing nothing to … Continue reading →

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