{"id":9614,"date":"2011-04-11T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:30:31","slug":"inter-island-warfare-the-scillies-v-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/11\/inter-island-warfare-the-scillies-v-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-island warfare: The Scillies v Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Scilly (for which I have considerable affection) have declared war on Jersey. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/apr\/10\/isles-of-scilly-jersey-warmest-britain?INTCMP=SRCH\">Well, a war of wards at least:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">Tourism officials on the Isles of Scilly are to lodge a complaint over a claim made by Jersey's tourism office in a \u00a31m <a style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"TV advertising campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MRQ_lXB1wpg\">TV advertising campaign<\/a> that the largest of the <a style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Channel Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/channelislands\">Channel Islands<\/a> is \"the warmest place in the British Isles\".<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">Met Office temperature records for Scilly obtained by the Guardian also appear to undermine Jersey's claim.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>May the best islands win.<\/p>\n<p>Note the plural: Scilly wins this race hands down. Warmly (!) recommended as a holiday destination, all year round (yes, I've been there in February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Scilly (for which I have considerable affection) have declared war on Jersey. Well, a war of wards at least: Tourism officials on<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/11\/inter-island-warfare-the-scillies-v-jersey\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}