DAVID Cameron's former aide Gavin Williamson was in Worcestershire last week doing two Q&A sessions for delighted local Tories - but he may need to lay off the coffee.

The MP, nicknamed the 'baby faced assassin' after becoming Chief Whip at a remarkably young age of 40, got a bit carried away manoeuvring in Worcester's Fownes Hotel car park and accidentally hit another vehicle.

Thankfully there was no visible damage to the other car, but it's a good job - the bloke who drives it happens to work in PR.

Quite literally a car crash visit.

* IT'S more 'Santa Claws' than Santa Claus in Worcester - with those all too familiar pre-election spats starting well before the turkey sandwiches have even been prepared.

Worcester's Conservatives took advantage of the city's popular Victorian Christmas Fayre by arriving en masse at the Guildhall the Saturday before last, doing some canvassing in a place they knew thousands would flock to.

But with comical timing, a cohort of Labour activists stood right outside dishing out 'Save our NHS' stickers, resulting in streams of people going around sporting the opposition's message.

Meow!

* THOSE luvvies at the European Commission have come up trumps for Worcestershire, awarding Evesham's asparagus long overdue 'protected status' to protect it from rip offs.

Whisper it, but does Brexit not make this particular accolade utterly meaningless beyond March, 2019?

* HUNTING for a new permanent adult services director at Worcestershire County Council, an interview panel recently looked at two external candidates for the plum role carrying a salary of over £100,000.

One didn't interview well, and the other was apparently so young and 'laddish' he practically high-fived the room before performing even worse - leaving them with an almighty headache.

The selection panel then made a discreet plea for the super-talented Sander Kristel, a well-liked director who was doing the role on an 'acting' basis beforehand, to apply - and he got it.

The way local government works, eh.

* YOU know you've made it in politics when you can Google your own name and buy a face mask of yourself, as one Worcestershire MP has found out.

For just £2.49 people can now purchase a novelty bendy mask of Sajid Javid - think nobody will buy it?

Wrong - Amazon say "hundreds" have shifted.

* WORCESTER MP Robin Walker tells us his boss, Brexit Secretary David Davis is a "keen bird watcher".

Staring at a bunch of restless cocks - an experience which may prove useful when dealing with those hard-nosed European bureaucrats only too eager to make an example of Britain over the coming years.