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The Welsh have always been jealous of the Scots - and are continuously trying to steal any Scottish thunder, however pathetically small the original noise may have been.

This latest news story to make it to the bored back pages of the national papers is no different from the normal ‘Hey, look at me!’ ploys from that rather boring bit of British countryside. It may just be a little bit more pathetic than most other attempts, if not by all that much.

First though, you all know what Welsh rabbit is - or rarebit? This from Wikipedia:

The first recorded use of the term Welsh rabbit was in 1725, but the origin of the term is unknown.[ It may be an ironic name coined in the days when the Welsh were notoriously poor: only better-off people could afford butcher’s meat, and while in England rabbit was the poor man’s meat, in Wales the poor man’s meat was cheese. It may be a slur against the Welsh, since the dish contains no meat and so was considered inferior. Then again, because the word Welsh was at the time used by the English to describe anything inferior or foreign, it may allude to the dish’s Continental European origin.

Anyway, Welsh rabbit is one thing - but it’s quite another for Welsh nationalists to try to outdo their Scottish betters and trump the Loch Ness monster with their own, rather pathetic tale of the Welsh crocodile:

Experts are trying to track down a 3ft crocodile spotted near a supermarket in Wales. The hunt was launched after Steve Jenkins saw the creature in an ornamental lake in Swansea.

The 38-year-old was walking his dog along the banks of the 20-foot deep pond opposite a Morrison’s store when he spotted the reptile swimming in the shallows.

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