Swindon gets twinned...

The town of Swindon, Wiltshire; whose previous claims to fame were a railway engineering works, the UK's first public lending library and the (in)famous Magic Roundabout now has a new claim to fame.

It has just been twinned...

...with Walt Disney World.

I kid you not. But beneath the attention-grabbing headlines, it turns out this is not so much a properly organised twinning, with committees and representatives from both locations etc., but a competition by the theme park - further evidenced by the fact the town will only hold the title for a year (presumably they'll have another competition next year to choose another town), the only benefit it appears to receive is a "holiday party" in January, and the majority of the prize seems to centre around whoever submitted the entry (four free tickets for family & friends to the theme park).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8402686.stm
http://www.waltdisneyworldtwinnedtown.co.uk/about/