An OAP was overcharged by £1,600 over three consecutive winters because her gas meter was charging her imperial measurements instead of metric. Susan Strafford shivered through three years and became ...

For more than 50 years, Canada's dual system for measuring things has been a source of confusion for tradespeople, crafters, newcomers and anyone who's ever been asked for their weight in kilos. Why, ...

LONDON — Come Sunday, the inch dies. So does the foot and the yard. And the pound and ounce go on life support. After more than 20 years of re-education and assimilation, the British are dumping some ...

January 18, 2001 11:11: AN Enfield shopkeeper is anxiously waiting to hear if she will become the next 'metric martyr'. A legal test case is under way in Sunderland where trader Steve Thoburn is being ...

In the run-up to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Boris Johnson is reportedly set to mark the occasion in a unique way that has divided opinion. A Cabinet source has claimed that the Prime ...

This could be a measurement of its weight, volume, capacity, length, time or temperature, and there are standard units of measurement agreed upon and used all around the world. These standard units ...

Parents should use precise measuring devices to avoid giving children the wrong amounts of medication, say experts in Canada and the United States. And those devices should use metric measurements as ...

THE statutory decennial comparisons of the Imperial standards of length and mass with their Parliamentary copies became due in 1932. On the last occasion, in 1922, they were carried out at the ...

We all develop preferences for kitchen equipment, and this became a favorite during testing. The Le Creuset set is made from shiny stainless steel in a round shape with flat bottoms. The measurements ...