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Yards or metres, gallons or litres?
Geoffrey Howe (The Expert Spring 2005)
Let's not measure ourselves by the imperial past
Roddy Urquhart (Yorkshire Post February 2005)
Britain needs a single system of measurement
Robin Paice (BBC online September 2004)
British metrication ? how can we escape from the mess?
Robin Paice (Science in Parliament Autumn 2004)
On the level: go metric for good measure
Jeff Howell (Sunday Telegraph) April 2004
Change to kilometres on roads will be like 'mini-euro'
Christine Newman (The Irish Times, 7 October 2003)
Time to stand up to the metric martyrs
Malcolm Bruce MP (Press & Journal, 12 December 2002)
Imperial madness
Ross Clark (The Spectator, 20 February 2001)
Imperialism is not a force to be reckoned with
John Diamond (Daily Express, 17 February 2001)
Measure for measure, a comedy of errors
Lord Howe (The Times, 10 February 2001)
Don't make a martyr out of this mismatch
Stewart Steven (Mail on Sunday, 21 January 2001 and follow-up piece)
Historical perspectives by the last Director of the UK Metrication Board
Jim Humble OBE
Memo to Maggie - 5 years after abolition of metrication board
Timothy Bentley (Sunday Times 28th July 1985)
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