IF Tory Marc Bayliss rises to the top of Worcester City Council by becoming its new leader, don't leave your valuables hanging around.

The blonde-haired assassin is now (allegedly) well and truly chief culprit in the farcical disappearance of the Ed Miliband cardboard cut-out down the road at County Hall, after party colleagues dobbed him in to Labour councillors.

Can we expect to see cardboard Ed pitch up at the Guildhall?

* MARGARET Thatcher fanatic Neil Westwood, who paid £84,000 for her peeress robes, is still making national headlines in more ways than one.

The Worcester Tory has now come under the microscope of the riotous Socialist Worker magazine, which has included our man's largesse in their rather naughty gossip column called The Troublemaker.

The robes are not for burning.

* MOST folk have no idea what councillors get up to in their day jobs and we've had some crackers around here, from former Top Gear producers (Ken Pollock) to those helping flog lethal missiles to governments (Chris Mitchell).

But away from the revving and rockets, the new deputy leader at Worcestershire County Council has developed a seriously impressive website dedicated to 250 of Britain's most famous people.

Take a look at Anthony Blagg's warts-and-all effort of quintessential, wacky and quite marvellous Brits, which he says he only created as a hobby, at britainunlimited.com.

* WORCESTER MP Robin Walker was invited to a briefing with bosses from Lloyds on Wednesday and bumped into none other than Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who had also accepted the chance to swot up on his economics.

Did he hurl a little red book at them too?

* WOEFUL Treasury bean-counters have reduced their funding to County Hall by a whopping £11 million, but finance officers have responded by fiddling around with the budget to somehow plug that gap without asking councillors to find more cuts.

Either the calculator's playing up or magic is real.

* EVEN after the Cheltenham media circus, Adrian Hardman is still describing himself as the leader of Worcestershire County Council to the world-at-large on Twitter.

Send the men in white coats, now!