WITH the news that a mega amount of new sites have been earmarked for 5,200 extra homes in the South Worcestershire Development plan, it's been a trying few days for many politicians.

After all, they live and breathe exactly the same air as the rest of us - or at least most of them do.

One person who doesn't have to give a monkeys about the county's looming 'urban sprawl' is Tory Queen Judy Pearce, who chairs the Joint Advisory Board which concocted this horrific bible of housing bleakness.

Councillor Pearce lives nearly 200 miles away happily in south Devon, as far away from her Wychavon constituents as one could possibly imagine.

Somehow, the smooth-tongued Tory has managed to hold onto her role in the Conservative leadership of Wychavon District Council despite standing, and duly being elected to South Hams Council in south Devon in May, leading to a farcical double-life Tiger Woods would be pleased to pull off.

It's also far away enough to ensure she'll never hear the howls of anguish when the construction industry arrives en masse to concrete over Worcestershire.

Build away!

* ANOTHER character who surely won't give a fig for Worcestershire's plight is our friend inspector Roger Clews.

The Source was handed an interesting dossier on the SWDP's ultimate decider this week showing how in 2013, he was the 7th most development-happy inspector in the UK, overturning two thirds of decisions on appeal.

Is it any wonder we've been given a bloody nose?

* BY the time you read this, the results of the Scottish referendum may well be in. When does the war start?

* SIR Peter Luff is counting down the months to his retirement, which pleasingly for us means he holds little back in telling you what he really thinks.

He's gone and told The Source old colleague Douglas Carswell, who defected from the Tories to join UKIP a few weeks ago, is probably the only man around parliament these days with plenty in common with the late Enoch Powell, a former Wolverhampton MP famous for his 1968 'rivers of blood' anti-immigration speech which got him sacked from the Government.

UKIP, welcoming a fruitcake into the ranks? Shurely some mistake!