A report has been received by the Council of ARM that signing within the National Exhibition Centre at Solihiull near Birmingham includes signs to hotels and other locations in metres e.g. 'Grosvenor Hotel 960 metres' (not 1 km - which would have been clearer).

Although this is private land, the public has access to the roads running through it, so the signs must conform with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, under the principles in D.P.P. -v- Jones (accepted by Lee Valley Park Authority and Stansted Airpost, inter alia).

So, unless they change them soon, ARM supporters may need to render these signs lawful

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... e.g. 'Grosvenor Hotel 960 metres' (not 1 km - which would have been clearer).
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Do not make the mistake of judging metric by the same cumbersome hard to convert Imperial standards.

To anyone who knows metric 960 metres is just as clear and easy to understand as 1 km. Metric sensible people have no difficulty at all in recognising at once that 960 m is 0.96 km which is close to 1 km. Up to them whether that 40m matters or not.

After all Mr B, even you recognised at once the 960 metres could, for the purpose in hand, have been replaced with 1 km.