HE'S performed many minor miracles in his political career but one Worcestershire councillor now boasts a new skill on his CV: saving chickens.

Lib Dem Tom Wells recently stumbled across a lost "exotic chicken" wandering around aimlessly near Stanbrook Abbey, and launched his own appeal in the neighbourhood to find its rightful owner.

The anxious fowl happened to be a rare species known as a 'Cream Legbar', and belonged to The Old Bush pub in Callow End half a mile away, where the lucky pet is now happily back home after Cllr Wells' efforts.

Just call him Birds Eye.

* UKIP town councillor Maurice Alton has been kicked from his seat after failing to attend enough meetings in Bewdley, triggering a tasty little by-election.

How bad was his record?

Terrible - he'd not been seen at a single meeting of the council nor any of its committees for six months, resulting in automatic ejection.

When we said Brexit we meant Brussels, not Bewdley.

* WE told you this week how Worcester MP Robin Walker is pushing for a bolt-on boundary review so areas near Kempsey are part of the city map, but it's got more implications than you may realise.

If it becomes a reality this suggestion, which has come about due to plans for a 2,200-home 'super village' south of St Peter's, could all but finish off Labour's hopes of wrestling back the city's parliamentary seat.

No wonder so many of his colleagues are privately gleeful at the prospect.

* WORCESTER City Council's latest buzzword is 'income generation', in the hope bosses can stave off cuts by making more money from the public, but have they missed a trick?

The new £10 million Perdiswell swimming pool is one of the first in Britain which no longer requires the ubiquitous £1 to hire a locker, meaning there is no chance of staff sweeping up all those forgotten pound coins at the end of each day.

Surely some mistake?

* MIND you the efforts to grow the council's income base, which can be safely described as being at an embryonic stage, haven't impressed everyone, despite the wheeze of this new 'research and development' fund being put together.

Tory Councillor Marc Bayliss has described the progress as being akin to an "arthritic ant".

* CELEB chef Jamie Oliver is making megabucks from his themed restaurants, but if he wanted to open an outlet in Worcestershire one bloke certainly won't be there.

Councillor Adrian Hardman, Worcestershire County Council's ex-leader, said: "I went to one once - never again."