NIGEL Farage was looking to return to Worcester one more time before June 23rd, but whether it's still on now is anyone's guess.

The UKIP leader's 'people' asked the University of Worcester if they could use one of its venues for a Brexit Q&A, knowing full well its gold-cladded Hylton Road basketball arena can pack in more than 2,000 punters.

Apparently it's been abandoned after the party were told to cough up something in the region of £5,000.

Pro-Remain vice-chancellor 'slam dunks' Brexit beer swigger.

* GREEN Party leader Natalie Bennett enjoyed herself in Worcester's ever-sloshed Cap 'N' Gown pub last Monday, but was almost victim of a prank.

Among scores of eager fans hunting a 'selfie' was Richard Fulloway, a Tory activist and caseworker for Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier.

The young-gun asked the Green's boss to pose with him in a 'Rose and Jack' style picture, which she politely declined, no doubt fearing an image with connotations of the sinking Titanic.

* TALKING about Natalie Bennett, she proudly proclaimed on Monday that she'd been personally parading Councillor Louis Stephen around Britain as one of the Green's best bright hopes.

The way he's being talked about, it may not even be that far-fetched that Louis, elected to Worcester City Council's Battenhall ward last month, could yet become a future Green Party leader himself.

* THINGS are getting so nasty on the Tory EU front that Sir John Major compared Boris Johnson to a snake last Sunday, but closer to home things aren't much better.

Mark Garnier appears to be getting increasingly riled about Michael Gove's antics, as any observers of his Twitter feed will testify.

After Gove's latest round of TV appearances, he wrote: "Post-debate commentators fail to find Gove's intellectual case for Brexit - #blindhopeoverbrains."

Will those lot ever look each other in the eyes again, I wonder.

* USHERING in the high-mark of summer, Mid-Worcestershire MP Nigel Huddleston - a friend of the PM's - has announced that a Tory bash featuring a pig roast is taking place in Stoulton in July.

Given that David Cameron snubbed the invite to Asparafest, will a willing pig be enough to get the premier down?

* THE Deputy Mayor of Malvern was heading to a meeting this week and forgot to display her councillor's parking permit.

Councillor Hannah Campbell returned to her car to find a lovely fixed penalty notice.

Doh!

* WEIRDLY, a model of an Ostrich has been placed inside County Hall at the bottom of a flight of stairs leading to the councillor's area - leading to regular jokes about heads being buried in the sand.

Will this be nicked like the Ed Miliband one?