SEEMINGLY sponsored by the Common Sense Society, Worcester's Green Party chairman Louis Stephen is pulling out all the stops in his 'Living Over The Shop' campaign - or LOTS for short.

But every good tale has a Yin and Yang, with the Yang in this case being fellow Green Matthew Jenkins, who happens to be a web designer by trade and has created an impressive internet site for his pal publicising LOTS to the nation.

Councillor Jenkins' website business does have a rather unfortunate name though - especially as it is owned by an elected politician.

'Top Spin Web Design'.

* WITH silly season in full swing, seagulls have made a very welcome return to this newspaper's headlines, as council chiefs declare a crackdown on the pesky birds a success.

But like a message from hell, the city council's deputy leader Marc Bayliss had the ghastly misfortune to find a dead seagull carcass nestling in a bin the other day.

The gull was presumably victim of a passing car before the culprit tried to preserve its dignity - either that or maybe there's a renegade seagull activists' branch out there looking to spook their tormentors.

Squawk!

* ONTO a good idea in a flash, Wychavon District Council has come up with a new novel 'trolley tax' proposal - seizing abandoned ones before asking supermarkets who want them back to stump up hard cash for the privilege.

Notwithstanding the fact that some courts may deem this theft, The Source loves the idea, with the little old taxpayer preparing to give Goliath plc a slap around the chops, buy-one-get-one-free if you fancy it.

Whoever drafted the price list for a returned trolley must have been taking tips from Del Boy and Rodney though - £100 for the first one, then £50 for each subsequent 'find'.

When ministers urged local authorities to think outside the box, a botched up game of supermarket sweep may not be what they had in mind.

* HOW many Labour leadership candidates does it take to change a lightbulb?

It's not about restoring light, it's about internal debate. Doh.