HOPES for relaxed Sunday shopping laws lie in tatters, but it's given Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn new allies from the Tory side of Worcester.

You've seen how city Mayor Roger Knight has been inadvertently doing the opposition's bidding, but that ain't half of it.

Which public affairs exec has been using his Twitter feed to rejoice in the Government's defeat, spent weeks telling the world he was backing Corbyn's "Keep Sundays Special" campaign and actively rallied SNP politicians to trample over the legislation?

None other than Will Pryce, who now works in retail PR but was Worcester MP Robin Walker's campaign manager at last year's General Election!

* WORCESTERSHIRE County Council's chairman Ian Hopwood only has weeks left before stepping down - but he's still giving brilliantly honest answers to the public.

"Somebody asked me the other day 'would I do it again'," he said.

"I replied 'probably yes, but without the heart attack'."

* IT wasn't long after Adrian Hardman reached leader status at County Hall that its website carried a permanent, flowery biography of its top boss, accompanied with a grinning photograph of him carefully perusing the Financial Times.

Alas, new leader Simon Geraghty's dedicated page still says 'biography to follow soon' - eight weeks after his elevation.

If you really need The Source to do it, you just have to ask (fee applies).

* ROBIN Walker was in the Commons for a Q&A session this week alongside Education Secretary Nicky Morgan - a key opportunity for opposition MPs to grill the Government.

But so few Labour MPs bothered to turn up, those that did were inexplicably outnumbered by Tories.

Whatever happened to education, education, education?

* MP Nigel Huddleston appears to have been sat in the exact same place at Prime Minister's Questions - right behind David Cameron's right shoulder - for weeks on end.

Does he drape a towel over his bench like those Germans on holiday?

* EX-MILITARY man Chris Mitchell, the city council's deputy leader, is doing his bit for Worcester already - he's terrifying the clipboard-wielding chuggers.

"I must walk around with a permanent scowl because I never, ever get approached," he says.