IT'S all gone bonkers around Worcestershire, with one former MP finding a dead vixen dumped on his drive and a current one swimming in 600 letters, many from mad people, about fox hunting.

The Source has got the calculator out and if Nigel Huddleston was prepared to spend a few minutes each week preparing a considered reply to each correspondent, he'll finish this task in January, 2027.

Welcome to parliament, Nigel.

* FREE from the shackles of Malvern's loony political scene, former district council boss Chris Bocock is cutting a happy figure these days.

With all the time in the world on his hands and enough taxpayers' cash to sink a battleship from his £170,000 golden goodbye, our old chum was spotted in Malvern's Waitrose the other week sporting daring bright blue painted toenails.

Talk about nailing your colours to the mast.

* LABOUR leadership hopeful Liz Kendall appears to have taken on the role of the Terminator, crushing anyone and everyone who may be in her path.

On Monday, in the hallowed confines of Worcester's Cap 'N' Gown pub she battered Ed Miliband's legacy to bits, calling the General Election campaign negative, lacking in vision, catastrophic, terrible, you name it.

During one question from a member of the audience she also said rival candidate Jeremy Corbyn would "leave us out of power for a decade", saying going to the left would effectively crush the party's hopes of ever getting back in.

But The Source is beginning to wonder if our Liz has been planted as an MP by the Conservatives, in the hope the nation gets a 'proper Tory' just in case it goes pear shaped in the future.

* QUOTE of the week comes from former Worcester Mayor Councillor Alan Amos, during a chat about the Government's planning law shake-up.

"The fundamental problem in this country is that we've got uncontrolled population growth," he said.

* THIS newspaper turns all sorts to celebrities, it must be said - especially Labour Councillor Simon Cronin, after he was pictured on our front page on the weirdly-situated new City Walls crossing.

"I want his hat", "I actually DO want his hat", "he'll get back and find his trilby on the teapot" - just some of the comments from our Facebook readers.