VETERAN former Tory politician Aubrey Tarbuck put many colleague's noses out of joint during his council career, and in retirement he's still at it.

The pensioner, who still keeps up to date with all the gossip from his Hallow cottage, came face-to-face with one of David Cameron's top confidantes recently - and he wasn't impressed.

West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin pulled off a coup by getting the PM's Parliamentary Private Secretary Gavin Williamson to host a forum at the Talbot Hotel in Knightwick last month with party bigwigs.

Aubrey's verdict? "A lot of absolute rubbish", he tells us.

Ouch.

* THE Source has a solution for highways chiefs at Worcestershire County Council, who are stuck in the 'go slow' lane over improving Whittington island.

Three months on from a council pledge that changes would be made to this roundabout of cricked necks, we've been told the hold up is over 'technical drawings', conjuring up images of some sort of university challenge-style decadent frippery.

But just how many vehicles have used this outrageous surreality of an island since those in charge admitted there were issues with it?

The Southern Link Road is used by 30,000 of them daily. What an absolute, complete and utter farce.

Shove your drawings in the bin, give us £20 and we'll stick a cardboard sign in front of the island saying 'NO LEFT TURN', plastered to the grass with crappy sticky tape.

Is this the worst roundabout in western Europe?

* TALKING about dross decision making, Worcestershire's Local Enterprise Partnership staged its annual conference last week, where one invitee turned a few heads for the wrong reasons.

Amid the chattering of drinks and cheese and pineapple sticks, MPs flocked to a stand set up by First Great Western showcasing its exciting investments planned for the county.

A gloriously huge map highlighting these joys showed other parts of the region, but in a unique spectacle of pointlessness not Worcestershire.

Doh!

* DAVID Blunkett says he wants Labour's General Election campaign to avoid mentioning the fact Ed Miliband is party leader too often.

What do we call these people - the unspeakables?

Shush in that corner!