THE BBC said the reason for giving all its measurements in metric is that our children are taught at school in metric, and that to use British imperial measurements would confuse them.

Did anyone ask you whether you wished your children to be taught foreign measurements rather than British ones? Bit by bit ‘Britain’ is vanishing and this is yet another way of ensuring that it does.

The BBC seems to have forgotten that it is the ‘British’ Broadcasting Company and that the people who pay for the licence are, on the whole, British. Don’t they count?

C COOPER, Viking Way, Bournemouth