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 ...

Brexit minister Lord Frost announced on Thursday that the ban on making imperial measurements in shops “stand out more” than metric units could soon be lifted, as the government is looking to unpick ...

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NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres. There ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s retailers have warned prime minister Boris Johnson that his plan to bring back imperial measures will ...

Originally published on Jan. 3, 2021. As Canada heads into the coldest months of the year, you're likely to come across an outdoor thermometer with temperature readouts in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

The commission has kept extending the deadline for the UK to complete the full transition to the metric system, with the most recent deadline being 2010. This would have meant setting a deadline for ...