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Archive for February, 2007
Degrees of confusion
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Polish language signs highlight signage mess
Friday, February 16th, 2007Highway authorities have provided metric and Polish language signage for Polish motorists but continue to ban metric signs for the rest of us. (more…)
DTI claim that removing supplementary indications will be a barrier to trade
Monday, February 5th, 2007Britain’s department for trade and industry (DTI) has recently published a letter advocating continued derogation on using supplementary indications.
[Article by Roddy Urquhart]
Suffolk bird flu outbreak illustrates Government mess on measurement
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007The 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 encourage its use.