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UKMA occasionally issues press releases for the benefit of journalists and editors, to clarify our view on matters connected with metrication and to draw attention to activities or issues of our own that we wish to publicise. We regard it important that our views are clear and properly represented in the media.

We hope that people who work in the media will find the material in this section useful and interesting. Any feedback from folk who use the material would be welcome.

• 2008 Oct 22 Mystery shopper exposes imperial media stunt.

• 2008 Oct 19 Imaginative media spin to a non-event?

• 2008 Oct 9 Hackney Council gets it right

• 2008 Aug 31 Sat-navs scapegoated for foreign lorry blunders on imperial-signed roads

• 2008 Aug 2 Metric campaigners unimpressed by “poll” findings.

• 2008 Jul 1 New Government advice is recipe for more bridge-strike chaos

• 2008 Jun 30 Brown urged to sort out beerfest mess

• 2008 Apr 1 Decimal measures to oust inches

• 2008 Mar 14 Trading Standards Institute cops out

• 2008 Jan 18 "Imperial scales may give short measure" – says metric group

• 2007 Dec 28 Speed limits go metric 1st January

• 2007 Sep 27 Britain's new Highway Code - updated but outdated

• 2007 Sep 11 "No return to lbs and oz" says pro-metric group

• 2007 Jun 28 Pro-metric group slates EU climb-down

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