HAVE you ever been away on holiday, then sat silently stewing at the airport because your plane's delayed?

That familiar sinking feeling came home to Worcester MP Robin Walker this week, who was led a merry dance by Aer Lingus, which markets itself on cheap British flights.

The Conservative was in Dublin on parliamentary business earlier this week, returning back to London on Tuesday.

After around three weeks of trying he'd secured a Westminster debate on Worcester's recent flooding, which was scheduled to start that very day at 4pm - not a problem when his flight was due back in the capital at 11am.

But after the good old aviation industry did its best a stack of flights out of Dublin were delayed or cancelled, and after five hours of frustration he finally arrived at his desk around 4.30pm, meaning the whole debate had to be scrapped.

Oh dear.

* TALKING of Mr Walker, it's often been said that he looks very much like his late father, Lord Peter Walker.

But it isn't all that often people outside of Worcester pick him out for bearing a close resemblance to his dad - until now.

He was in the middle of Lambeth last month, a London district, when a basketball coach called Jimmy Rogers collared him randomly and said: "Are you the son of Peter Walker?"

Mr Rogers had no idea who Robin was, and pulled him aside after spotting him at the back of a room where the coach was talking to inner-city children about basketball's benefits.

* TIMES go from bad to worse for Councillor Derek Prodger, who fresh from the fire service fiasco is now gearing up for a motion of no confidence at May's full meeting of Worcestershire County Council.

Someone tells me Cllr Prodger, long, long before he ever arrived on the scene as a politician was a painter and decorator, which means he's familiar with a whitewash, cover-up, call it what you will.

But The Source wonders if those councillors who were equally as involved in the decision to pay Mark Yates £3,000 for his back operation have got off relatively lightly so far.

Brigadier Peter Jones, as we revealed in The Source last week, first told us he was "away in the Caribbean" before admitting he did, in fact sit in the private meeting over it and voted with the decision.

On Wednesday, after we called him to say Mr Yates had paid the money back, he said he hoped the chief fire officer had "learnt an important lesson" from the whole saga.

Yes. Our jaws dropped too.

How was the Caribbean, anyway?

* UKIP has lost another councillor at County Hall after Martin Jenkins quit, taking them down to just one.

The Source is therefore taking bets. How long before it's down to zero?