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	<description>Commentary on the measurement muddle in the UK</description>
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		<title>Howe calls for metrication progress</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/05/howe-calls-for-metrication-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/05/howe-calls-for-metrication-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Howe of Aberavon, the former Conservative Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, intervened in the Queen’s Speech debate on Tuesday to reiterate his call for the Government to complete the conversion of the UK’s weights and measures to metric units. &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/05/howe-calls-for-metrication-progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Which? sees the light – and Panorama joins in</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/which-sees-the-light-%e2%80%93-and-panorama-joins-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By an odd co-incidence both “Which?” magazine and the BBC’s flagship “Panorama” programme  have recently run stories on the scams employed by the big supermarkets to prevent customers from comparing “value for money” in their weekly shopping. However, despite their &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/which-sees-the-light-%e2%80%93-and-panorama-joins-in/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who should pay for metrication of road signs?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Road signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imperial road signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[measurement units]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Transport have claimed that converting road signs to show metric units would be an unjustifiable diversion of resources from other priority areas.  So is there an argument that the costs should be met from some other budget?  &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/12/who-should-pay-for-metrication-of-road-signs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>ASDA downsizes strawberries &#8211; brilliant publicity stunt</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/asda-downsizes-strawberries-brilliant-publicity-stunt/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/asda-downsizes-strawberries-brilliant-publicity-stunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports in the tabloid media suggest that Asda has reverted to selling strawberries in “pounds”.  So what has really happened? The Sun got the story first on Friday, 27 May, and ran it as follows. ASDA is going back to &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/asda-downsizes-strawberries-brilliant-publicity-stunt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Surprisingly balanced article in the Daily Mail</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/surprisingly-balanced-article-in-the-daily-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/surprisingly-balanced-article-in-the-daily-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 08:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[litre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article about metrication appeared in the Daily Mail Online recently, describing the current situation reasonably well – but arguing that the current British mixture of metric and imperial measurements is actually a good thing since it enables people &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/05/surprisingly-balanced-article-in-the-daily-mail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minister confirms business as usual</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/04/minister-confirms-business-as-usual/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/04/minister-confirms-business-as-usual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[metrication policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residual imperial usage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to letter from the British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA), the Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP, has confirmed that there is no change in Government policy on the units of measurement in use &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/04/minister-confirms-business-as-usual/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>How decimalisation succeeded while metrication stalled</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=1870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media like nothing better than an anniversary, so it was predictable that the 40th anniversary of &#8220;decimal day&#8221; &#8211; 15 February, 1971, when the UK finally gave up its archaic and inconvenient coinage and currency &#8211; would get a &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/02/how-decimalisation-succeeded-while-metrication-stalled/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did “Victorian values” block metrication?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/did-%e2%80%9cvictorian-values%e2%80%9d-block-metrication/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/did-%e2%80%9cvictorian-values%e2%80%9d-block-metrication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=1684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it about the British that makes it so difficult to implement a simple, obvious and necessary reform – the adoption of a single, rational system of measurement, used by everybody for all purposes?  A newly published dissertation attempts &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/did-%e2%80%9cvictorian-values%e2%80%9d-block-metrication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>“Half of that mince, please”</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/%e2%80%9chalf-of-that-mince-please%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/%e2%80%9chalf-of-that-mince-please%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer affairs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=1631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two little anecdotes illustrate the difficulties still being experienced by customers because neither the Government nor “consumer advocates” will try to help them adapt to metric units in the supermarket. Anecdote 1 A woman in her 60s approaches the fresh &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/%e2%80%9chalf-of-that-mince-please%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Glaring omission from Queen&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/05/glaring-omission-from-queens-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/05/glaring-omission-from-queens-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 07:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=1221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new coalition Government claims to be determined to clear up the “mess” left behind by the previous Government. So it is notable that Her Majesty’s gracious speech included no proposals to tackle one of the biggest “messes” of all &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/05/glaring-omission-from-queens-speech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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