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More than 800 barrels of the stout have been stolen from a depot in Runcorn, Cheshire, say police.

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Between 1968 and 1970, Britain’s transition toward the metric system generated a remarkable volume of correspondence between county surveyors, borough engineers, police constabularies, education ad…

In late 1968, the Ministry of Technology published Changing to the Metric System: Background and Progress, a comprehensive explanation of why the United Kingdom needed to adopt the metric system an…

In May 1968, the Standing Joint Committee on Metrication delivered a landmark report to the Minister of Technology, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. It was a document that captured a moment when Britain stoo…

The founder of Riverford says it is running out of water as drought is declared in the South West.

A major incident has been declared - one holidaymaker tells us he was woken up by "hammering" on his door and told to evacuate immediately.

Britain has lived with a measurement muddle for generations—yet the solution has been sitting on our shelves since 1965. The Use of SI Units, published by the British Standards Institution, is one …

John Austin reports on the athletics programme for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which will commence in Glasgow, Scotland on 27 July. National and International Athletics is almost entirely metric. …

Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions – the calculations that were carrie…

Lakenheath Fen is helping wildlife to thrive again by rewetting a 296-acre plot of land.

Hundreds of hectares of "precious" moorland have been burned by wildfires, United Utilities says.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, British industry embarked on one of the most significant technical transitions in its modern history: the move from imperial to metric units. This shift—often descr…

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They washed up at high tide and people said there was nothing they could do to save them.

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There is much to be learned from Australia’s highly successful 1970s metrication programme. In a previous Metric Views article, we looked at two information leaflets produced by Australia&#82…