STEWING over his shock de-selection is former Mayor of Worcester Councillor Derek Prodger, who isn't going as quietly as some may have hoped.

The region's fire authority chairman says he's now thinking of standing as an independent in next year's County Hall elections, taking on the Conservative Party he's loved for four decades.

With Malvern's disgruntled Ian Hopwood also "considering his options" after his own de-selection fate, all it needs is Kidderminster's Gordon Yarrington to follow through with his promise and next year's elections will deliver an unprecedented hat-trick of former Tory county councillors giving their old friends a custard pie.

Splat.

* POLLUTION may be at illegal levels in Worcester's Dolday, and spreading to more parts of the city centre but hold your nose - we may just get away with it.

The all-powerful legislation covering air quality, including the risk of a hefty 'grime fine', would actually be levied by the EU, meaning if the Government triggers Article 50 as promised we can move on quietly from this growing UK public health scandal and leer over more pressing matters, like the cost of Marmite.

Trebles all round!

* UKIP MEP James Carver visited Somaliland, the far-flung autonomous region of Somalia last week - but he didn't forget to spread the message of the beautiful game.

The Worcestershire MEP took a replica West Ham shirt with him, handing it to one lucky young man as a keepsake memento to remember it by.

The Source wonders if it had Number 9, 'Brexit' printed on the back.

* TALKING about sport, Councillor Adrian Gregson is used to media attention around here - but he couldn't even escape it in Russia.

The city council's Labour leader managed to get himself onto Siberian TV during his trip across to Moscow watching Worcester Warriors' play last weekend.

Worcester twinned with Siberia, you heard it here first.

* WORCESTER MP Robin Walker and the Wyre Forest's Mark Garnier are well underway with their briefs as new ministers, but with power in Government comes side effects.

Despite the Conservatives boasting a 25,000 majority in Witney, both of them were sent on the sweaty Oxfordshire campaign trail as part of an all-hands-to-the-pump effort in David Cameron's old Witney seat before yesterday's by-election.

* WHAT'S the difference between a 'live' traffic data mobile phone service ran by County Hall, and a policy allowing drivers to career over roundabouts to ease congestion?

One is a crazy suggestion that could get you arrested, and the other may damage roundabouts.