REGARDLESS of whether Labour's relentless General Election campaign is succeeding in getting extra votes around Worcester, it's certainly seen a libido surge.

Last month Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt's visit to Worcester Sixth Form led to some teenage girls being overheard giggling about his boyish good looks.

On Wednesday shadow food and farming minister Huw Irranca-Davies was in town, which didn't half impress gushing city flood expert Mary Dhonau.

"It's a shame he's married," she blushed as he departed Charlie's Cafe.

Meow.

* WORCESTER'S Lib Dems, as we all know, have selected faraway Federica Smith, of homely Somerset, as their city candidate - but do they believe this was an error?

A Tweet from the party's city branch said Conservative Robin Walker, often viewed as a lefty, sounds "very much like a Liberal".

Sign him up.

* UKIP activist Andrew Newman is standing in Claines for election, but if he gets in it may blow up the gobbledygook register at the Guildhall.

At this week's Cap 'N' Gown hustings, filling in for James Goad, on a question from pubbers about care cuts he banged on about "specified expectations".

Should have hit the bar harder.

* NIGEL Huddleston, a champion of local businesses, has produced some wonderful leaflets in true blue Mid-Worcestershire, where the Tory is heading for an almost certain victory.

On the latest leaflet he proudly boasts about doing all he can to promote local firms, declaring how he'd "champion business investment and job creation" if elected.

One assumes this stance will finally kick in once he's sitting in his new £67,000-a-year Commons job, as his election material was printed in Bath, 75 miles away!

* UKIP's Richard Delingpole, standing once again this year for the city council, sums up the way polls tend to be treated these days perfectly.

"How to read a poll: If it shows your party is ahead then it is accurate - if not, it has been fiddled by dark forces," he says.

Well said that man.