REGRET-of-the-week goes to that aide snapped in Downing Street with a document apparently revealing Tory Brexit tactics - what was she thinking?

The Department for Exiting the European Union, where Worcester MP Robin Walker is based next to Number 10, apparently displays a sign for people about to step outside warning them: "Stop! Are your documents on show?"

Doh!

* WEIRD times at Worcester Labour Party, which has published its list of candidates for the 10 city-based seats ahead of the 2017 county council elections with three names blank.

The wards of St Peter's, Warndon Parish and St Stephen still say 'not yet selected' on its website despite the branch now boasting 1,000-plus members amid Corbyn-mania.

If the Ed Miliband cardboard cut-out is one and Jeremy the Teddy is presumably another, who the heck is taking that final vacancy?

* PAUL Nuttall's rise to UKIP leader has surprised absolutely nobody within the party given his six years as deputy to Nigel Farage.

But one thing he will surely find eye-opening is the difference it makes being head honcho of this peculiar party.

As party leader Mr Farage was well-versed in personal security following him around, being mobbed at airports by people giddy at the sight of a famous face, and having to explain to his kids why they get ribbed for who dad is.

By contrast, the last time Mr Nuttall was in Worcester in June not a single soul appeared to know who he was, with the Liverpudlian desperately trying to get updates on the England v Wales Euro 2016 score as he weaved through the crowds in virtual anonymity.

How things will change.

* WORST joke this week goes to Cllr Stephen Hodgson, who wants the city council to drum up more publicity for the car parking system allowing drivers to pay via mobiles, called RingGo.

"Maybe we should get a celebrity to come to Worcester to publicise it, I was thinking Ringo Starr," he told a meeting this week.

* LIB DEM Cllr Tom Wells has finally cracked at being on the receiving end of too many endless presentations as chair of an influential adult care scrutiny panel at County Hall.

"It's like death by power point," he says.

* THE ramifications of change are still sinking in at Worcester City Council, but rather than insult the opposition leader one Labour figure has likened him to a de facto monarch turned martyr.

Cllr Simon Cronin, conjuring up the kind of comparison only a publican is capable of, says: "Marc Bayliss is desperate to shrug off the tag of being the Lady Jane Grey of city council leaders."