CULTURE Secretary Sajid Javid is a man of many talents, and now it appears being a tightwad is one of them.

The Worcestershire MP, press freedom fighter and all-round nice bloke, opted to send his Christmas card to BBC Hereford & Worcester in the second class post despite being a former City high-flyer and millionaire.

Said card arrived in Hylton Road on Monday, four days after Christmas in true, miserly fashion and later than a Turkey in February.

Sajid, tipped by many to be a future Prime Minister, enjoyed earnings of roughly £3 million a year before he left Deutsche Bank in 2009 to pursue his career in British politics.

I thought it was only us mere plebs who use second class post?

* THE Source is delighted 2015 has arrived, if only because this is the year Councillor Alan 'fiasco' Amos is promising to spill the beans on the brutal falling out with Labour colleagues that led to his controversial rise to the mayoralty.

For months now, the murky one has opted to shy away from a 'warts and all' chat about the infamous shenanigans, even in the face of the worst criticism I think any elected politician has faced from the good citizens of Worcester.

The former right wing Tory MP turned left wing ex-Labour socialist turned Disgruntled of Warndon will become a mere independent councillor in May, when the chains of office will be both literally and metaphorically off his back.

We'll put the kettle on for his murkyness.

* FESTIVITIES may be ending but the pantomime season is still in full swing at County Hall, where Labour leader Peter 'call the cops' McDonald is searching high and low for cardboard Ed.

Can someone lend him a torch for the weekend?

* ON that same subject, The Source was amused to see the cardboard cut-out saga go viral, with the UK's national media piling in like rats enjoying a festive feast after we broke the story first - proof if it were ever needed that where the Worcester News leads, the rest follow.

The Daily Mirror, Times, Independent, international news websites Huffington Post and BuzzFeed (which reckons it offers readers the world’s ‘hottest celeb gossip’ – does that make McDonald an A-lister?) all ran with almost exacting versions of the same tale, but it was The Sun's coverage that raised a smirk.

Britain's biggest newspaper reckoned the Ed saga is engulfing an authority called "Worcester County Council".

Doh!