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back to article The Archers INVADE Guernsey, rebrand it Borchester

Offshore tax haven Guernsey briefly rebranded itself as the metropolitan area of "Borchester" in a cock-up with the island state's website. Anyone visiting gov.gg to find out about the isle's services were surprised to find municipal information about the fictional town that features in twee BBC radio soap opera The Archers. …

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  1. BorkedAgain
    Happy

    Twee?

    Gritty and hard-hitting, I think you'll find...

    (dum-de-dum-de-dum-de-dum...)

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  2. TRT Silver badge

    So, the last time Guernsey was invaded...

    it was rebranded as Boschchester?

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  3. J.G.Harston Silver badge

    I thought Borchester was a District Council, not a Borough Council.

    And if it's a /Metropolitan/ Borough Council that would put it in the West Midlands (the met county, not the region).

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  4. Winkypop Silver badge
    Terminator

    Borgchester

    We are the Borg. Lower your firewalls and surrender your servers.

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  5. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    Surely

    Under the new Protect-Murdochs-Cable-Empire-Act this piracy of the name of their program allows them to invade Guernsey, take all it's money and have the entire population extradited to America

    This could be a good alternative to the licence fee. The BBC would just need it's own crack military force - pity Arthur Lowe isn't still around

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  6. David 163
    Mushroom

    Ohhhhhhh Noooooooooo!

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  7. MJI Silver badge

    It's a model railway!

    Borchester Market

    But then I do not do soaps

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