HAVE you ever been at a fancy restaurant and gorged yourself silly, before slowly developing a cold sweat as you wait for the inevitable bill to arrive?

That's just how some staff at Worcester City Council could be feeling about the swimming pool saga.

Back in 2012 the council started to engage with one of the country's top consultancy firms, Turner & Townsend, over grand plans for a new pool costing up to £13.5 million.

Yet despite months of work the firm still hasn't billed the council for a penny yet, much to the surprise of senior staff.

Maybe the firm, which has 80 offices in 33 countries and turns over massive amounts of dosh, has forgotten?

Meanwhile the morning post at Orchard House, where most of the council's senior bods are based, is greeted with more and more trepidation.

* THE Source never believed Worcester Councillor Allah Ditta would find common ground with fellow politician Fran Oborski, but it's finally happened.

Allah, a Tory who made headlines all around the world in 2012 for threatening to dig up a dead man's body, subsequently appeared in the Rotten Boroughs section of current affairs magazine Private Eye, an unwanted accolade if ever there was one.

Now the column, designed to highlight the vagrants and vagabonds of local government has mentioned Liberal Cllr Oborski for using her iPad to play Solitaire during council meetings, which first emerged in this column of course.

Could these two form a Coalition of their own?

Mind you, she'll be furious if she ever finds out what nickname Labour group leader Peter McDonald has given her at County Hall.

* SPARE a thought for Worcester Councillor Stephen Hodgson, a committed Mackem and football fanatic who was cock-a-hoop when his beloved Sunderland made the League Cup final last Sunday.

Not only did his heroes lose 3-1 to Manchester City, but after trying to get a ticket for the clash he forked out for what he thought was a legitimate seat, only to find himself victim to a third party scam.

Realising towards the end of last week he'd been conned, on Sunday his wife Councillor Lucy Hodgson dragged him off to the cinema, possibly aimed at cheering him up.

The Source wonders what was worse - being scammed for a cup final ticket or having to visit the flicks while your team's biggest match in years is on?

* COUNCILLOR Clive Holt, a veteran Tory at County Hall, doesn't mince his words these days.

"I heard a good one the other day - it's easier to pin down a weasel covered in Vaseline than it is to pin down a Liberal Democrat," he said.

I'll have some of whatever he's been drinking.