NIGEL Huddleston has revealed himself to be a big fan of The Great British Bake Off, proof if ever it were needed that all good politicians love a bandwagon to leap on.

The Mid-Worcestershire Tory isn't going down the exotic route in his own personal quest for cookery triumph, though, pictured above with a home-made lemon drizzle cake to celebrate the hit TV show's final.

He says he followed the recipe from the show's presenter Mary Berry "to avoid a soggy bottom".

Talk about having your cake and eating it.

* A NEW KFC is coming to Worcester, but not everyone in the city is best pleased with the chicken explosion heading our way.

Councillor Alan Feeney, not a man to mince his words, would never land a job as head of PR at the fried chicken chain for all the clucking in the world.

"The easiest thing is not to go there," he said.

"It's awful, it doesn't even count as chicken."

* AFTER more comical ups and downs than a yo-yo, Worcestershire County Council's Stephen Clee is calling it quits at next year's elections.

The man who once claimed he knows "where the bodies are buried" won't be contesting his Chaddesley seat at County Hall, and how we will miss him.

There's been rows over redeveloping the HQ, duplicate expense claims, a party suspension in the Wyre Forest and for those with even longer memories a dispute over his attendance records and a huge kerfuffle about him becoming Stourport's mayor.

With old "ten jobs", as he is affectionately known, giving up the ghost on the county will he now finally come good on his promise and give us those keys to the corpses' trail?

* WITH so many Worcestershire Conservatives fighting battles behind closed doors to secure re-selections for next year's County Hall elections, even some of the natives who made it through are restless.

One leading figure reckons the party is being inflicted by what The Source calls 'Restless Pensioner Syndrome', with the shires stuffed full of older folk looking for something to do, not least with the basic £9,019 allowance that goes with it.

"If you're a pensioner and you're sat at home, getting ten grand a year suddenly looks very attractive," says one.

* WITH power comes great responsibility, but for five of the six Worcestershire MPs working as ministers there are the downsides.

Despite several of them harbouring bad thoughts about disgraced tycoon Sir Philip Green, due to their positions in Government none were allowed to vote to strip the former BHS boss of his knighthood last week.