SUCH was the fanfare generated around Worcester City Council's post-election deadlock, every man and his dog was at the Guildhall on Tuesday night - including a crazed pigeon.

In comedic style not only did it 'cross the floor' several times, but the flapping mad-dove appeared perilously close to attacking Councillor Adrian Gregson, the city's new Labour leader, as it tried in vain to flee the chamber.

The question must be asked: is this maniacal bird a frustrated floating voter?

* WITH the pigeon still circling, just as he was ousted as council leader Marc Bayliss signed off with a witty description of what those Greens can merrily look forward to in Labour-land.

"Far from being the tail that wags the Labour dog, the Greens will soon realise they aren't even the flea on the Labour pooch's tail," he said.

* THE public gallery was unusually packed on Tuesday, but what struck The Source was just how many ex-councillors sought to witness this brutally dramatic changing of the guard.

Forming a bizarre Rainbow Coalition of their own Messrs David Tibbutt, Francis Lankester, Richard Boorn, Ken Carpenter and Liz Smith all came along for the ride, the latter two proving the Lib Dems do still have a pulse.

But if the Greens are that flea on the pooches' tail, does that make our beloved Lib Dem Liz Worcester's answer to a gnat?

* ANOTHER big winner this week was Councillor Jabba Riaz, who gleefully learned that he's wanted among Labour's leadership team as one of its cabinet members.

This means he'll have achieved the remarkable act of sitting in both a Conservative cabinet, as recently as 2013, and now a Labour one.

Has anyone ever managed this feat before?

* WIT of the week award goes to this year's defeated Tory candidate in Cathedral Barry MacGabhann, who reacted to the Labour-Green council deal on Twitter by continuously publishing a photo of a giant watermelon ad nauseam, with the clever slogan 'green on the outside, red on the inside'.

It is a bit like exposed fruit - refreshing, even mouth-watering to some, a pip-ridden mess to others.

* MANY ambitious aims have been boldly declared by those lucky enough to become the Mayor of Worcester, but the city's new first citizen Paul Denham wants the seemingly impossible - no rudeness at the Guildhall.

Minutes before the Tories were booted from office, he said: "One thing I won't tolerate is people being rude - there's a place for robust debate, but there's no place for anything but individual respect for all members."

He'd have more luck stopping the water engulfing the Titanic.