“Women could be asked intimate details about their sex lives in a planned EU census”
(Express, 21 November 2007, p.2)

 ”Become a virgin protest to foil EU”: Women are being told to claim they are virgins if intrusive census proposals are agreed by Brussels”
(Metro, 21 November 2007, p.2)

“Have EU had a lot of love”? A census demanding details about women’s sexual partners is being voted on by MEPs today.”
(The Daily Mirror, 21 November 2007, p.31)

“MEPs scotch Brussels census plan”
(Daily Telegraph,Financial Times, 22 November 2007)
The Commission proposal contains no questions related to sexual behaviour, and does not ask women to report on “how many live-in partners they had had”. The purpose of the proposal for a regulation is to make the results of the population and housing censuses in the European Union more comparable. The question on whether a women lives in a marriage or a “consensual union” (an unmarried partnership) was not …

A law that was originally designed to deal with abandoned motors could lead to lovingly part-restored MGs and what-have-you being removed forcibly from driveways as junk….
(The Express, page 23, 12 June 1999)
For environmental reasons, the End of Life Vehicle legislation will make provision for the recycling of car parts and unwanted cars. Vehicles will, of course, only be scrapped if owners explicitly wanted that.

Brussels bid to halt High Street sales of ginseng and aloe vera. Traditional herbal remedies could vanish from Britain’s shops under a European scheme to make them illegal to sell without a licence.
(The Express, 11 March 1999, p1)
There is no attempt to ban herbal remedies. It is important to ensure the safety, quality and efficacy of products available to the public, and to guarantee that claims made about their effectiveness are accurate. There is concern, even among practitioners, that some herbal medicines can be dangerous if not used properly, which is why new licensing regulations for herbal and other health products are being introduced by the Government, giving effect to an EU Directive dating back to 1965. According to the Directive, any substance or combination of substances presented or administered for treating or preventing disease in human beings or animals should be regarded as a medicinal product. Ready-prepared medicinal products …

Schoolboy William Walker has been banned from helping his local milkman on the orders of the EU.
(The Mirror, 19 August 1998, p11)

A new EU directive makes it illegal for children of school age to deliver milk from vehicles on safety grounds.
(The Express, 19 August 1998, p20)

Schoolchildren are to be banned from working on milk rounds under an EU crackdown on child labour … Britain’s 20,000 milkmen, who face £1000 fines if they employ children yesterday claimed the ban was another attack on the British way of life.
(The Sun, 11 August 1998, p17)

A schoolboy has been told his £20-a-week job helping a milkman on his rounds has been outlawed by a new English directive. (The Telegraph, 19 August 1998, p10)
There is no new EU crackdown on child labour. The UK has implemented the directive 94/33 on the protection of young people at work which was agreed by the previous Conservative Government …