UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge has the party's leadership in his sights, but has he got the cash to make a decent fist of it?

The hardline politician, who wants to ban the Burka, bring back the death penalty, reintroduce smoking in pubs and end kosher and halal animal slaughter, has set up a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to raise £5,000.

The amount in the coffers?

A miserly £8 from a single donation - barely enough to buy one flea ridden golliwog and not quite the stimulus his weird and wacky "Billieve in Bill" campaign is seeking.

Never mind - our Bill may need to wear a Burka himself in public to hide those blushes!

* POLICE and crime commissioner John Campion may have completed a matter of just weeks in his new job, but overseeing this behemoth-sized force covering 2,868 square miles and 1.1 million people isn't half taking a toll.

The Conservative put a brand new car on the drive after being elected - only for his motor to clock up a staggering 6,000 miles already.

* IF any of Worcestershire's MPs now working as ministers start sporting dodgy hairstyles due to too much twitching in the salon, we will know why.

Malvern's Jacqui Smith, yes that former Labour Home Secretary, has been telling Total Politics magazine what life really is like running the country.

She said: "On my first visit to the hairdresser after leaving the Government, she expressed surprise when I asked for a magazine, saying 'but you usually have all those papers to read'.

"It was the first time in 10 years that I didn’t need to take a folder of ministerial work into the salon."

One assumes hairdressers down Jacqui's way are now very well informed?

* WYRE Forest MP Mark Garnier was despatched to Burma last week in a whirlwind start to life inside the new Department for International Trade - leaving The Source wondering what he's done to upset Theresa May.

This highly unstable region comes with a red hot health warning on our Government's very own website, with risks of sudden outbreaks of civil unrest, jail for saying the wrong thing and random landmines just some of the worries.

The Foreign Office's official line? It "advises against all but essential travel".

* JEREMY Corbyn's leadership re-election campaign has been in full throttle this week, but you'd be forgiven for a lingering sense of Deja vu.

Labour's bearded dragon has unveiled a tasty new slogan, 'no community left behind', to try and sway the punters - the exact same motto used this year by the current Mayor of Worcester Paul Denham.

Imitation is the truly greatest form of flattery.