Next thing, we'll be allowed to stick with the bendy bananas...
The European Union is set to confirm it has abandoned what became one of its most unpopular policies among many people in Britain.
It is proposing to allow the UK to continue using pounds, miles and pints as units of measurement indefinitely.
The European Commission will announce later it is leaving all future decisions to the British government.
The decision is a victory for supporters of the ancient imperial system, the so-called "metric martyrs".
Which is all very well, except that I was only taught the metric system at school and still struggle to know how many yards in an ounce, pounds in a mile and what have you. Also find it very different to make comparisons between the two systems.
That led to generations of schoolchildren being promised that they would be the last ones who would have to learn two different systems.
Not true.
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