IT'S been a lively week for West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin, who has stayed where she is following David Cameron's earthquake-like reshuffle.

Several national newspapers, notably the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Independent, had been tipping our Harriett to make waves in the PM's ambitious-women-promoting-fetish on Tuesday, but in the end it came to nothing.

Eager to know how she really felt about it, The Source asked around and it appears she always thought she was never truly in the frame.

Indeed, some sources close to her have suggested our national newspapers may have taken a complete guess, with one claiming it was kicked off by the Mail on Sunday searching for random "good looking" female MPs after getting a tip off that DC intended to promote a few women.

But it looks like Harriett wasn't too happy that your Worcester News dutifully informed our readers that her name was (apparently) in the frame.

When asked to comment on the new-look Cabinet, she said: "I hope that journalists will now understand that you should never believe reshuffle rumours, even when they are in the Worcester News."

Calm down sister!

* INCIDENTALLY, amid David Cameron's reshuffle the good old 'curse of Worcestershire' has struck again.

Last autumn Labour leader Ed Miliband decided to change his shadow cabinet and The Source noticed a disturbing trend.

Brum MP Liam Byrne was axed as shadow work and pensions minister, while Liverpool MP Stephen Twigg was sacked from his shadow education brief - both following visits to Worcestershire.

Among the Tory ministers to visit the county so far in 2014 include Michael Gove, who has lost his job as education secretary and David Willetts, who visited Malvern only last month as universities and skills minister. He's out too.

Who's up next?

* WHILE we're on the subject of Michael Gove, Mid-Worcestershire MP Sir Peter Luff waded in this week by trying to put the Daily Telegraph to rights.

The Conservative, currently cock-a-hoop after the Government found £7.5 million for Norton Parkway, tweeted the Del Tel's digital gurus to say he was "amazed to see one of the best jobs wrongly described as a demotion".

Peter was obviously on-message with DC, who appeared to spend much of Tuesday bleating how the former hack "hasn't been demoted".

In one sense they aren't necessarily wrong - the Chief Whip role carries little publicity but it can often make or break a Prime Minister's career.

But when was the last time you took a 'sideways step' and suffered a £36,000 pay cut in the process?

No wonder Gove's wife was livid.

*URGENT message to teachers across Worcestershire. Can The Source get an invite to your 'Goodbye Michael' party?