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BIS sticks with pints of beer (but only on draught)
As expected the Business Department has refused to permit sales of draught beer and cider in convenient metric measures – but its reasoning is bizarre.
Posted in Consumer affairs, General, Health, Law
Tagged alcohol, beer, metrication, pint
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A 21st Century Approach to UK Peaks
Walking has never been so attractive. It’s cheap, it keeps you fit and it gets you away from the crowds. Yesterday’s launching of a new interactive website on Ben Nevis draws together for the first time a UK-wide peak challenge … Continue reading
Posted in General, Health, Mountains, Sport
Tagged hillwalking, peaks, prominence, prominent, website
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Dual unit weighing scales can be harmful to health – official
In a damning report on the state of medical weighing equipment and procedures in hospitals across the country, LACORS, the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services, has highlighted the dangers of using weighing equipment that can display units other than … Continue reading
Posted in General, Health, Law
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End Britain’s Great Imperial Rip-Off
In these uncertain times, the spending power of the pound in our pockets seems to be decreasing by the day, making it high time, in my view, to end the Great Imperial Rip-Off, and save British consumers from the cost … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, Education, Health, Transport
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Twother or twaddle?
One area where metric units have been banned in the UK is draught beer and cider. This is despite the fact that bottled or canned beer and cider is mainly available in round metric quantities. Compared with most countries the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, Health, Law
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No Olympic games without measurement
Accurate and consistent measurement is fundamental to modern life, and in few branches of human activity is it more important than in sport – including, of course, the Olympic Games. This is the message given by Andrew Wallard, the President … Continue reading
The stone – now comes with a health warning
The Local Authority Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) have recently announced that they are launching a nationwide project to deal with inaccurate hospital weighing scales. The project follows studies which found hospital staff using inaccurate and unsuitable scales to calculate dosages … Continue reading
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Spain to wreck European clothing sizes initiative?
According to a BBC report the Spanish government is proposing a new clothing sizes initiative which conflicts with the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) proposal described in MetricViews last year. If this report is true it threatens to undermine the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, General, Health
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Enjoy a healthy Christmas turkey! Roast for 40 minutes per kg at 190°C
Many families in the UK will roast a turkey on Christmas day. Preparing a traditional Christmas dinner challenges most people as they are cooking much larger quantities of food than normal. As a result thawing and cooking times are much … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Recipes
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Are imperial units natural? (and some useful rules of thumb)
One of the claims sometimes made by defenders of imperial weights and measures is that they are “natural”. The metric system (they may say) is all very well for science and technical matters, but for everyday life imperial units like … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, Education, General, Health, Myths, Technical
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