NIGEL Huddleston was among those mingling at London's Royal Albert Hall for the BAFTA awards last weekend, in yet another sprinkling of showbiz.

Never, ever again will super socialist Ken Loach, A-List celeb Nicole Kidman and one of Worcestershire's Tory MPs be prowling down the same red carpet, on the same night.

* WORCESTER MP Robin Walker was in Scotland this week on Brexit ministerial duties - where booze truly was on the agenda.

A two-day round-robin (geddit?) tour of businesses North of the Border took him to the Scotch Whisky Association, although it was clearly too early in the day.

"Sadly I visited them in the middle of the afternoon, so I didn't get to try any," he tells us.

* WORCESTERSHIRE County Council's long-serving Chaplain Phillip Jones has finally called it a day and retired after more than 20 years' service - congratulations must go to him for remarkable staying power.

But the man who would entertain us all with some words of wisdom at the start of each full council meeting - often laced with wit - is now finding the tables turned.

Tory Councillor Tony Miller, the chairman, said: "I believe church ministers don't retire, they just get older and smaller."

The council's own sheet of announcements on his departure, called him County Hall's 'Chaplin'. What a bunch of Charlies, eh.

* COUNTY council Labour group leader Peter McDonald wants to coordinate a cross-party delegation to London over funding woes, and has suggested Tory leader Simon Geraghty goes with him.

But not withstanding what these two political foes would talk about on the train down (game of Tiddlywinks, anyone?), let's hope taxpayers don't pick up the tab for this slapstick journey to the capital.

The man they actually need to talk to is Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, based a mere 14 miles from County Hall in Bromsgrove.

* ALL the hopefuls seeking to stand for election at County Hall are being invited to a special 'Candidates Day' on February 28 - but beware PC Plod.

The event starts at 2pm, but by 2.05pm the itinerary says: 'Briefing by West Mercia Police - warning of election offences'.

By 2.15pm they'll have the entire room breathalysed.

* ANOTHER dreadful week draws to a close for UKIP, with Paul Nuttall suffering more faux pas than even Eddie Hitler himself could have scripted.

His press officer Lynda Roughley has taken the blame for dodgy claims on his own website that he lost 'personal friends' in the Hillsborough disaster, although it's a good job her resignation was turned down.

Until very recently Lynda, a former Liverpool Post hack, did the PR for MEP James Carver, one of Worcestershire's UKIP figureheads.