Britain's traditional imperial measures had been set a deadline of 2009 to change to metric measures, but that has now been scrapped following a change of heart at the European Commission.
Both the Metric Martyrs campaign group and the Conservative Party and have claimed victory in the battle to keep Britain imperial.
Dual marking of goods in imperial and metric will "continue indefinitely".
He said that following lobbying by the Conservatives, Mr Verheugen agreed that it was good news for British and European industry to maintain imperial measurements as it would
make selling to the US easier for firms.
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- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
