A charity to promote cycling is getting a rough ride from Scots after placing a sign in a disputed Border town which points to a place where the Jacobite Rebellion collapsed. more...
Looks like someone in Berwick Council is having a dig at the Scots.A sign just outside the town centre points to Edinburgh ... and Derby, which was as far as Bonnie Prince and his Jacobites got on 4th December 1745, leaving on 6th.
Trouble for the Council is that the sign gives the distance in metric, which does not therefore conform to the legislation ... the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002...the legal rerequirement is that distances be given in miles, not kilometres ( and even the distances when converted into miles are wrong)
Metric Martyrs Campaign Director Neil Herron states, " I am aware that the Department for Transport is monitoring the metric changeover in Ireland ... but would face massive resistance here. But for a Council in England to attempt to do it one sign at a time may take a while. On this occasion I do not suspect a deliberate attempt by the Government to metricate the country by stealth. Their last attempt to try the stealth approach with pounds and ounces ended up with them slipping on a pound of Steve Thoburn's banana skins.
I think it may well be a snub by Berwick Council at the Scots following the latest BBC poll which suggests that a slight majority of Scots want independence and a majority of English want their own Parliament.
Berwick Council's dig at the Scots may not only cause embarassment because of a little cross-border conflict it will also be embarassing because the sign is in metric which renders it illegal."
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