DESPITE the looming EU referendum many Worcestershire folk still don’t know who the hell their MEPs are – and even society’s movers and shakers struggle with the concept.

Rev Peter Atkinson, the Dean of Worcester Cathedral, told an audience in the Cap ‘N’ Gown pub on Monday night: “How many people can name one of their MEPs in the European Parliament?

“I can – because I printed off the names on the internet before I came.”

Never mind, they only earn £6,500 a month.

* WORCESTER’S £60 million Hive may well be Worcestershire’s golden success story, but it’s a good job the powers-that-be didn’t have a ‘Project Fear’ style public referendum of their own before building it.

Professor David Green, University of Worcester vice chancellor, recalls going to have his hair cut while it was constructed.

“At the barbers I went into in St John’s, they said ‘what is this mosque you are putting up?’,” he said.

“I said ‘don’t you like this golden temple of learning we are creating’?”

* ROBIN Walker has revealed his own “guilty pleasure” – he’s a big fan of cheesy pop band S Club 7.

Mirroring his energetic nature, the Tory MP tells us he was “delighted” the old teeny band’s noughties hit Reach topped a poll of favourite old tunes enjoyed on the quiet.

“I can assure you I’ve bopped to that one a few times, I’m delighted Worcester people have such excellent taste in music,” he said.

* SEEMINGLY pumped full of Lucozade, Harriett Baldwin is making massive waves in touring around Britain trying to stave off a Brexit.

If Remain wins the day West Worcestershire’s MP, a Treasury minister, is sure to end up purring with utter delight in more ways than one.

Chancellor George Osborne, who already has a pet moggie in his number 11 family home, has now promised the Treasury its very own cat.

What on Earth will they call it – Project Feline Fear?

* JOHN Campion is lapping up the glory of being appointed West Mercia’s new commissioner, but will he miss his old County Hall cabinet job?

The Conservative councillor, who earlier this month quit as cabinet member for children and families to run the cops about, was asked to comment on how school support services had improved under his old tenure.

“It’s a bit like asking a prisoner in a jail, how they’d like to see security improved,” he quipped.

Run for the hills!

* ANOTHER Tory delighted to have found an escape hatch of his own is Councillor John Smith, who was reshuffled from his old role overseeing Worcestershire’s highways just before the Eastham Bridge collapse.

“I sent an email to Marcus Hart (the new cabinet member) saying ‘at least Evesham’s Abbey Bridge didn’t fall down,” he tells us.

As of yesterday, he hadn’t replied.