Metrication will be complete by 2010

The EU is issuing a Metric Directive which, when it takes effect in 2010, will ban the expression of any unit of measurement in imperial units.

This will include books, magazines, websites, etc. It will even apply to measurements used internally by businesses that are not intended for public consumption.

According to the EU, this is to improve public health, safety and trade. Presumably this directive will also extend to road signs and speedo's in cars meaning that millions of drivers in England will be faced with metric road signs that they don't understand and speed limits and speedo's that are meaningless to everyone brought up using English measurements.

More on this at an Englishman's Castle and BWMA.