YET another attempt is being launched to make good money from Worcester's Guildhall, but there's more to this tale than meets the eye.

The idea for having comedy clubs at the venue has actually come from a "well known" female comedian.

Unbeknownst to the general public, this mysterious figure actually spent a short period of her childhood in Worcester, where she struck up a friendship with Councillor Richard Udall before moving away.

Now she's gone and contacted Richard to ask him about the possibility of using the Guildhall for a UK tour of "unusual venues", although our man wants her identity to remain secret to avoid a breach of confidence.

Come on - spill the beans!

* MIND you the irony of turning one of Worcestershire's Premier League political playgrounds into a comedy-venue-for-hire hasn't escaped anybody.

Tory Councillor Andy Roberts said: "When Richard talks about it having a comedy club, we haven't got very far to go, have we?"

* I GET so many calls and emails from the public complaining about 'Worcester County Council', that many years ago I stopped bothering to automatically correct people - it is no longer worth the hassle.

But this task doesn't get any easier when proper, official organisations get these councils inexplicably confused.

On the website of Visit Worcestershire, viewed by tourists across the world every day, it confidently states: "The Guildhall is still the administrative heart of Worcestershire City Council."

Do they want to see a unitary authority too? Do they know anything about a merger we don't?

* POET-of-the-week award goes to Lib Dem Fran Oborski, who has had some scathing words to say about police and crime commissioner John Campion's spell as cabinet member for children's services at County Hall.

Describing his 14-month stint prior to Cllr Marc Bayliss taking over and Ofsted then deeming the service to be failing, she said the latest incumbent was handed a "poisonous hot potato".

That's what you get when you cross a poisoned chalice with a hot potato.

* TALKING about criticism never mind working in children's services, try being former county MP Sir Peter Luff.

The recovering politician happened to place a message on Twitter this week pointing out the naked sexism of boys' and girls' birthday cards at Waitrose, with the former invariably blue, featuring lads clutching footballs and the latter all pink and glittery.

A barrage of abuse from online trolls and over 200 responses then followed, some of it so sexist, offensive and downright disgusting it's probably actionable.

Headache tablets are on the way.