Sorry, I didn't finish my post!

...But now the commission has decided to abandon its attempt to force Britain to adopt the metric system.

The reprieve follows months of commission consultations with British industry, trade and consumer groups - an exercise which convinced European officials that emotions were still running high over the issue and a move to metric-only in the UK would simply provide ammunition to Eurosceptics.

Gunter Verheugen, the EU's industry commissioner, will announce that miles per hour, pints of milk, and the Troy ounce for weighing gold bullion are all here to stay.

A spokesman for the commission said that Brussels was responding to "serious confusion" among British consumers and traders and wanted to "put a full stop on this issue".

"This means that measurements such as pints and miles are in no way under threat from Brussels and never will be," she said.

So the "imposed illegailty" was as much a myth as the EU insisting on straight bananas and banning double decker busses. There were hundreds of other such myths spread by the media and, sadly, many believed them :-( The Euromyths have all been archieved here and, as it says, it makes for some disturbing reading.