WHATEVER becomes of Councillor Simon Geraghty's leadership at County Hall, unlike his two predecessors it won't be the booze bringing him down.

Worcester Councillor Jabba Riaz sent him a text message of congratulations for landing the big job, but urged him to dump the drinks cabinet lurking inside the leader's office.

Simon's response? It's well and truly gone.

* IT'S only been a few weeks since £80,000 was spent on new microphones inside the chamber at County Hall, a move deemed such an expensive luxury that even the Daily Mirror lifted it from these pages.

But despite these flashy devices carrying a price tag even a £33 million lotto winner might sniff at, yesterday they inexplicably started to play up.

Were they sourced from Del Boy?

* PERCENTAGE horrors have gripped our district councils after they were handed some rough deals from central Government for their 2016/17 main grant funding.

Worcester City Council is getting 35% less cash but if you think it could have been worse, you're right.

Wychavon's fall is 39%, Malvern's is 40% and the Wyre Forest is taking a 42% tumble, but Bromsgrove seems caught in the sword of Damocles with its settlement down by an insulting 54%.

What on earth did Sajid Javid do to upset his Government colleagues?

* MEGABUCKS are being sunk into superfast broadband around Worcestershire, but The Source wonders if it will ever be enough.

The natives are still restless in quite a few rural pockets of the county, as so expertly described by Tory Councillor Kit Taylor.

"My residents are driving me insane about it," he says.

At least they can't email their complaints over.

* ONE of Worcestershire's fiercest global warming sceptics, Ken Pollock, has secured a promotion to the Conservative cabinet at County Hall, a richly deserved reward for a man who seems to live inside the building.

But sitting on that same top table is Tory Anthony Blagg, who is equally as vocal over his concerns about the perils of global warming and has just become the new deputy leader.

Helsinki will be the new Riviera by the time they sort this out.