WHEN Tory Queen Liz Eyre suddenly departed County Hall's Tory cabinet, allowing Councillor Marc Bayliss to grab a seat at the top table, one might have assumed her peaceful outlook on 'stepping down' would last the distance.

Alas no, according to her Twitter feed, which The Source assumes has not been the target of hackers.

Councillor Eyre, on a visit to Hampshire, tweeted: "I have knowledge of the Bayliss iceberg but now here in Winchester I have come across the Bayliss Business Room. "Interesting."

The former Tory-hater turned Labour baiter better watch his back!

* FOR months, Worcester's political leaders repeatedly insisted a contract to outsource bins, street sweeping and park maintenance should save £500,000 a year.

Now an outside consultant, hired at considerable expense, tells us the jolly taxpayer can reckon on it being half of that, unless a bigger deal is struck with Malvern and Wychavon.

Is this the opposite of under promising and over delivering?

* I KNOW the weather's been warm recently but someone at Worcester City Council really needs to go in the shade whilst tapping out those quick messages on Twitter.

The council's official feed pumped out this exacting message: "Please, PLEASE do leave your dog in a hot car this summer - it's just cruel."

They must be barking mad.

* LABOUR'S former Worcester parliamentary candidate Joy Squires is now a freshly signed-up member of the anti-gobbledygook club, a tonic for all sensible people in the county.

The city councillor took the unfortunate step of trying to read a recent report prepared for County Hall's main health scrutiny committee, an exercise slightly more painful than being forked in the eye with a pneumatic drill.

"It was presented in a whole world a lot of us are not familiar with, the language," she said.

It'd be more accessible in Chinese.

* WORCESTER'S Lib Dem branch is celebrating a near 50 per cent increase in membership, a whopping rise.

What's the size of it, I hear you ask? 64.

It's Tim Farron's new-look barmy army, cute enough to fit into a telephone box!