WORCESTERSHIRE County Council's leader isn't known as a 'rugger man', but Simon Geraghty may want to swot up on the egg-chasing while he still has chance.

The Conservative high-flier has been challenged to a game of touch rugby by opposition Labour group chairman Councillor Richard Udall on August 24 at Sixways - in what could prove either a masterstroke PR stunt or a total disaster.

And Richard, who has the physique to send an entire scrum cross-eyed in the mud, isn't messing around.

Inviting the entire Tory cabinet to take part, he says: "They have nothing to fear, it is non-contact, we will not hurt them.

"I'm looking forward to facing Simon Geraghty on the rugby field – I hope he has the guts to join us."

Yikes!

* CELEBRITY Orlando Bloom got the media twitching last month with a news story doing the rounds on tacky websites that he once dated a Worcester woman, and found them the "hottest" in the entire world.

Alas, the tale was a complete and utter hoax – but don't mention this to Sir Peter Luff, formerly of this parish.

The ex Mid-Worcestershire MP clearly thinks the story has got legs after re-tweeting it to all his followers on Twitter – most of whom only want to know what heritage lottery cause he's backing next.

* WITH the UKIP leadership battle in full swing, it's a good job the party's senior bods aren't getting carried away with the gap Nigel Farage has left behind.

"It's like when Alex Ferguson left Manchester United, but even worse - that's the hole left to fill," says deputy treasurer Peter Jewell.

* HE was once famed for Photoshopping himself onto an image of Adolf Hitler, but UKIP activist Richard Delingpole's historical interests go deeper than that 2013 joke aimed at taking the mickey out of Tories trawling social media for pre-election dirt.

Dick, as he is affectionately known, happens to be a deadly serious re-enactor and is taking a leading role in this weekend's M5 Living History Show in Spetchley where he will join no fewer than 900 like-minded folk.

Don't mention the war!

*  FORMER Worcester MP Mike Foster had a freakish old time of it last month after hoardes of Corbyn-obsessed social media dimwits haplessly confused him with a Labour donor bearing the same name.

Even more amusingly, while he was an MP there were actually two Labour Mike Fosters in parliament (the other one representing Hastings and Rye) - which had some advantages.

"When I took the bill forward to ban fox hunting, he used to get quite a few of my death threats," he said.