From Christopher Bookers column in the Sunday Telegraph.

Janet Devers, a 63-year-old East End market trader, was warned a week ago that
she faces criminal prosecution for selling apples and tomatoes by the pound
rather than in the kilograms required by EU and UK law. Mrs Devers, who runs a
stall in Ridley Road, Hackney, is the sister of Colin Hunt, one of the five
original martyrs whose conviction for the crime of selling in non-metric
measures was upheld by the High Court in 2002.

What makes the media's failure to report this so odd is that it gives the lie to
the claim, trumpeted two weeks ago by almost every newspaper in the land, that
Brussels had somehow given the Metric Martyrs a historic victory by allowing us
to continue selling in pounds and ounces indefinitely.

Gunther Verheugen, a vice-president of the EU Commission, even issued a
statement denying that this had ever been prohibited, accusing Britain's press
of having "repeatedly and erroneously published stories" about "people having to
buy their food from markets in kilograms rather than pounds".

It might therefore have been of some interest to the press that, only two days
later, Hackney council officials, with the police in support, should again have
seized Mr Hunt's non-metric scales - which he only uses in response to the
wishes of his largely black customers - and a week later should have summoned
his sister for police interview, preparatory to prosecuting her under the very
law whose existence Mr Verheugen denied.

What makes Hackney's action even odder is that, although the council boasts that
it enforces the law "with consistency" , some 20 other traders in the same market
are still selling in non-metric measures with impunity. Other breaches of the
law abound, from selling cheap clothing illegally carrying football club logos
to offences against hygiene regulations, again without the council taking any
action.

The fact is that it is still just as illegal to sell a pound of apples as it has
been since 2000, when Steve Thoburn became the first trader in the country to be
prosecuted. Until both Brussels and Whitehall change the law, that will remain
true.

We can only assume that the reason for the media's curious silence over
Hackney's action is that it shows just how easily fooled they were in falling
for Mr Verheugen's fibs.