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Cash-strapped council has failed to sell lucrative 'Harry Styles' private registration plate

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A cash-strapped local authority has failed to sell its flashy private registration plate – despite promising to make money off it.

East Renfrewshire Council claimed in January that showbiz stars such as Harry Styles may be prepared to pay £150,000 for their redundant civic plate, HS 0.

The local authority said the money would be used to help plug a £30million budget gap facing the council’s finances. But a Freedom of Information request found the council has not even put the prized plate up for sale.The response also shows the plan has cost public money – because officials hired a ­photographer to carry out publicity pictures.

The ­council even failed to choose an auction house, where a sale would allow prospective buyers to bid for it. The council said at the time: “The sale of the registration HS 0 presents the opportunity to generate a sizeable sum. “It would be imprudent not to consider the sale of s­omething which serves no real purpose.”East Renfrewshire Independent councillor David Macdonald said: “I cannot help but feel this was, perhaps, ­motivated not by raising ­additional funds for the council but more for the ­widespread publicity.“This doesn’t really surprise me with the current leadership at the helm of East R­enfrewshire.“It’s a leadership style entirely obsessed with PR and optics over substantive delivery on anything meaningful.”Many local authorities own private registration plates.

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