http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog A blog about rural life in the UK, our countryside and my country life. It's all here, farming, gardening, wildlife, animals and rural dating. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-bans-the-british-acre-land-measurement/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-bans-the-british-acre-land-measurement/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:43:34 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=169 Last week a junior Minister, Jonathan Shaw, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Marine, Landscape and Rural Affairs (effectively an office junior) was dispatched to Brussels to an EU meeting which banned the British acre from 1st January 2010. To make matters worse the UK government representative gave no objection to the ban, despite the [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/eu-bans-the-british-acre-land-measurement/feed/ 5