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The heat wave of 2006 on GMTV
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The UK faces a heat wave in July 2006. GMTV marks the event by using Fahrenheit temperatures in its weather forecasts on the two hottest days. Weather presenter Clare Nasir...
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BBC Radio Northampton - January 2005
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It is January 2005, and speed limits on roads in the Irish Republic have just changed from imperial to metric. Radio Northampton airs public misconceptions on the issue, an...
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BBC Radio Scotland - 5 January 2009. MacAulay & Co
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Fred MacAulay and guests, with a wry look at the stories of the day. On this day, one story concerned the prospects for progress with the UK's stalled metric changeover.
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NHS scales - Question in the Lords
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In response to a Parliamentary question, the junior Minister of Health agrees that it is essential that NHS hospitals use exclusively metric units and that it is time for t...
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Sky News vox pops - February 2006
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Sky News goes to Cambridgeshire in February 2006 to seek views from the public on whether Britain needs two systems of measurement or one. Two school pupils, an antique clo...
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Opponent of change has his say
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Following the publication in February 2006 of UKMA's report "Metric Signs ahead", advocating conversion of the UK's road signage to a single system of measurement, a spokes...
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A clarification from the Trading Standards Institute
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The announcement on 11 September 2007 by the EU that supplementary indications could continue indefinitely led to speculation on the effect of this decision. Sky News prese...
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GMTV dusts off its Celsiheit thermometer
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The UK faces a heat wave in July 2006. GMTV marks the event by using Fahrenheit temperatures in its weather forecasts on the two hottest days. Weather presenter Clare Nasir...
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Sky News debate - 23 February 2006. Part 2.
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Sky News may believe that there is an 'if' in 'metrication', but Anna Botting has done her homework thoroughly. The debate continues between the grumpy old men, Tony Bennet...
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Sky News debate - 23 February 2006. Part 1.
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Following the publication of UKMA's report "Metric signs ahead", Sky News broadcast, after the 7pm news, a discussion about the UK metric changeover. The presenter was Anna...
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