{"id":1793,"date":"2012-06-27T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:58:03","slug":"mayors-personalised-number-plate-apr-1-could-raise-30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/mayors-personalised-number-plate-apr-1-could-raise-30000\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor&#8217;s Personalised Number Plate APR 1 Could Raise \u00a330,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A call has been made for the Mayor of Bornemouth to auction off his prized personalised number plate APR 1 to raise funds for the council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/auctionbidding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1795\" title=\"Personalised Number Plate to be auctioned\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/auctionbidding.jpg\" alt=\"Personalised Number Plate to be auctioned\" width=\"92\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suggestion comes from trade union UNISON, which represents some council workers, as one easy way to cut back while saving jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the APR1 number plate was valued at \u00a330,000, the same as the Mayor\u2019s car itself.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between the council and the union on a raft of money-saving proposals, including a voluntary redundancy trawl, are due to end in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Oxley, campaign manager of the TaxPayers\u2019 Alliance said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely shocking that Poole Council still has money invested in a vanity number plate.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great example of the rising values of high quality personalised number plates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call has been made for the Mayor of Bornemouth to auction off his prized personalised number plate APR 1 to raise funds for the council. The suggestion comes from trade union UNISON, which represents some council workers, as one<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/mayors-personalised-number-plate-apr-1-could-raise-30000\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,8,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-celebrity-number-plates","category-personalised-number-plates","category-prestige-number-plates","category-ultimate-cherished-numbers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}