I've been reading Ian Bone's autobiography (thanks, Sean). It's roughly what you'd expect, but I was surprised to read about his experiences on the fringes of Welsh nationalism in the seventies.

He once found himself at a meeting of the Lost Lands League, an organisation which claimed various English border towns as part of the historic territory of Wales. Meetings like this were usually all piss and wind, but this time, to Ian's surprise, the speaker outlined a plan to attack and seize one of these towns. He produced maps of the town, showing the bridge they wanted to take and hold, while they waited for "other forces" to arrive, and explained that morale among local police was "low", and there were no Army units within fifty miles. Then he revealed the location of the mystery town, which was Hereford.

It fell to Ian to point out that although there were indeed no regular Army units around, Hereford was of course the headquarters of the SAS, who might be expected to put up some resistance before they ceded the place to Wales. The plans broke up in some disorder.

Honestly, you couldn't make it up. Although ...