The carrot-munching bastards that cannot be named

No doubting the weirdest story in the news today: "Posters for the new Wallace and Gromit film on a south coast island will not feature the word 'rabbit' because of a local superstition". Naturally I was surprised to discover it was Portland in Dorset rather than somewhere just off the coast of Norfolk - after all, East Anglia's an extremely superstitious place, and regular visitors to JonnyB's Private Secret Diary are only too well aware of his ongoing battles with pesky rabbits...