LAST week in this column we told you about former city MP Mike Foster and the barrage of abuse he's faced from social media dimwits confusing him with a Labour donor bearing the same name.

It has started to die down, but the 'other' Mike Foster has now penned a lengthy anti-Corbyn piece for the Mail on Sunday, triggering a fresh queue of village idiots to lay into the wrong Mike Foster all over again.

For the avoidance of doubt, here is one of 'our' Mike Foster's recent tweets, with emphasis on his caps: "For the avoidance of doubt and to save some Twitter users from embarrassment, I AM NOT THE MICHAEL FOSTER WHO WROTE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY TODAY."

Got it?

* WITH the news that 750 new jobs went begging in Worcestershire after Aston Martin picked Wales over Worcester for a new plant, more interesting titbits are leaking out the woodwork.

One of the interesting parts of the negotiations was that when county decision-makers were liaising with the Government, they were banned from making any direct approaches to the company.

But one source close to the collapsed deal, who shall remain nameless, isn't convinced everyone played by the same squeaky clean rules in the frantic race to secure a £200 million investment.

"We were told to not contact the company under any circumstances and we respected that - but I suspect others didn't," they said.

The dark arts eh?

* SAYING of the week goes to the leader of Worcester City Council, Labour's Adrian Gregson - who is still smarting from litter being the hot topic of attack among the Conservative opposition.

In a bid to dilute the all-too-regular tales of discarded mess he went for a litter picking session around Worcester a few days ago - with the council's PR team sending out an excitable puff piece delighting in the city's very own leader keeping the place "clean and green".

His quote to accompany the release called the estimated £400,000 a year saving from the private sector outsourcing of street cleaning and bin collections - an old Tory policy now scrapped by Labour - "a finger-in-the-wind saving".

* THE Source always knew former county MP Sir Michael Spicer didn't go down that well with everyone inside his party - but it turns out he had a nickname too.

In this game of politics the now retired parliamentarian, who represented West Worcestershire until 2010, was always keen to spotted backing any winning horse he could - which didn't endear himself to everyone.

"He was an opportunistic wind-sniffer if ever there was one," declares a leading Tory councillor.