EU may force UK to give criminals vote (Birmingham Post 3 February 2006)
The Government is to hold a consultation on the right of prisoners to vote, it was announced yesterday. The move, following legal action by a Midland prisoner, comes after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in October that the British law banning internees from taking part in elections was a human rights violation.
The European Union cannot force the British Government to give criminals the right to vote in elections. The European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution but part of the Council of Europe, which was founded in 1949 and is an intergovernmental consultative organisation consisting of 46 countries.

EU may force UK to give criminals vote (Birmingham Post 3 February 2006)
The Government is to hold a consultation on the right of prisoners to vote, it was announced yesterday. The move, following legal action by a Midland prisoner, comes after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in October that the British law banning internees from taking part in elections was a human rights violation.
The European Union cannot force the British Government to give criminals the right to vote in elections. The European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution but part of the Council of Europe, which was founded in 1949 and is an intergovernmental consultative organisation consisting of 46 countries.

Eurocrats in push to pull the plug on the pinta (Daily Mail 30 January 2006)
The traditional pinta is under threat from the EU which wants to replace it with litre and half-litre bottles. Milk is one of a number of staples Brussels wants put in standardised metric packages. Bread, sugar, butter and rice are also being targeted.

No pints? Dairy me (The Sun 30 January 2006)
Meddling Brussels Eurocrats want to ban the traditional British pinta and replace it with metric sizes.

Pint-sized EU upstarts (Daily Express 30 January 2006)
We must save our pinta. The EU bureaucrats think we should quaff our milk, and beer, in litres and half litres. […]The Daily Express has news for them. In Britain, we have been happy with pints, miles an hour and feet and inches for hundreds of years – and no one is confused.

Also in: 
Sunday Times 29 January 2006
Daily Mirror 2 February
Birmingham Post 3 February
Yorkshire …

Bespectacled lorry drivers will lose their licence after July 1996, because Brussels says HGV drivers have to pass their eye tests without the aid of glasses and they will not be allowed to wear their glasses whilst driving in case they fall off during a journey or accident.

Birmingham Post, 18 January 1996

The Times, 19 January 1996, p1

The Times, 29 January 1996, p17

Daily Star, 7 February 1996, pp2 & 8
This is absolute nonsense. Some changes have been introduced, but they are minor and certainly do not forbid long or short-sighted drivers from driving with glasses or contact lenses.

The requirements are first and foremost a measure by the Member States’ governments to ensure road safety. With this in mind they agreed to amend the original directive (80/1263/EEC) in 1991, and to set the minimum standards of fitness for driving large goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles, as well as establishing mutual recognition …