- or was it? ON Remembrance Sunday, we honour the heroes of two world wars who died for our freedom. Just eight days later, five honest traders are to appeal to the High Court in London over their 'offence' of selling produce in pounds and ounces, not kilogrammes.
There were no victims and no customer complaints, but total costs of over £72,000 have already been awarded against them.
Did those brave servicemen and women sacrifice their lives so that 60 years later shopkeepers could be prosecuted for selling goods in the traditional British measures requested by their customers?
DEREK NORMAN, British Weights and Measures Association, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh.
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