Veteran actor and star Silksoundbooks audio book reader Edward Fox has penned a moving tribute to Metric Martyr Steve Thoburn for a book in aid of injured soldiers. Edward, the star of films including The Day of the Jackal, A Bridge Too Far and Gandhi, described the late Sunderland greengrocer as a people's champion in the Food for Heroes cookbook, which will benefit the charity Help for Heroes.

Mr Thoburn, who died suddenly in 2004 aged 39, hit the headlines in 2001 after being prosecuted for selling fruit and vegetables by the pound. His appeals against conviction were taken to the House of Lords and European Court of Human Rights. In 2007, the European Commission published proposals that would permit the use of price and quantity marking using imperial measurements alongside, but not instead of, metric units.

Edward Fox wrote: Steve became the people's champion for his courage in standing up for his customers' rights to buy their fruit and vegetables in imperial measures. He was a good and brave man.

Fans of Edward Fox will love his audio book of the engrossing story of the downfall of Septimus Harding, the gentle and respected warden of Barchester Cathedral, in The Warden the first of Anthony Trollope’s hugely successful Barchester Chronicles. This exclusive and unabridged audiobook is available for you to download from silksoundbooks.com

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