IT’S been an angry week for pensioners across Worcestershire, who have been grilling county council officials over the woe about to hit them.

In case you haven’t heard, budget papers have now been published for Worcestershire County Council’s plans for 2014/15, including £29 million of cuts.

Concerned residents raised the issue with Councillor Marcus Hart at a forum on Wednesday, mentioning their displeasure over the chief executive’s £176,000 salary.

Never mind, said Coun Hart, once Trish Haines retires in the spring the replacement will be on “less than the Prime Minister”.

The new recruit’s wage will, in fact, start at £151,000 and rise to £170,000 within three years - leaving David Cameron looking like a pauper on his £142,500.

Nothing like a bit of smoke and mirrors, eh.

* RATHER than just trim off some of the £3 million spent on subsidising public transport in Worcestershire, the Conservative leadership is looking to scrap it all.

This method, known as the Hari-Kiri, where not only is the baby being thrown out with the bathwater but the bath too, places around 90 bus routes under threat.

Word reaches The Source that over 4,000 responses have been sent to the county council in the current consultation process, such is the public mood over it.

I wonder whether the feedback will ever see the light of day?

* NIGEL Huddleston, the Conservatives’ 2015 parliamentary candidate for Mid-Worcestershire is on cloud nine at the moment.

The Google exec, 43, who became the first ever pupil at his old comprehensive to get to Oxford University, is in the process of moving to Badsey, near Evesham ahead of next year’s count.

With current MP Sir Peter Luff sitting on a 15,864 majority the odds are sky-high that Mr Huddleston will emerge victorious, securing one of the nation’s safest seats.

One of his best friends and roommates at university was Louise Mensch, a glamorous former Tory A-lister who was catapulted into parliament in a blaze of glory in 2010.

Yes, that same Mrs Mensch who resigned as an MP in August 2012, saying she wanted to move to New York with her three children to be with her husband, who manages rock band Metallica.

It left the party having to defend a slim 1,900 majority in recession-battered Corby, which predictably went back to Labour, enraging Tory MPs, including those in Worcestershire.

I’d keep this friendship a secret if I were you.