A GRIM reminder of just how close to home Wednesday's appalling terror attack was to all our lives comes from Nigel Huddleston.

A day before a warped maniac brought terror to London, Mid-Worcestershire's MP was hosting a group of county schoolchildren at Parliament.

The kids actually crossed Westminster Bridge during their stay in London, utterly oblivious to what would unfold less than 24 hours later, when it was French schoolchildren caught up in the horror.

* A £12 million Green Skywalk for Worcester is 'on the rocks', to put it politely, with no money raised towards it and a set of old timetables abandoned.

A penny for the thoughts then, of former Worcester City Council managing director Duncan Sharkey, who quit in May 2015 for a new job in Milton Keynes.

When he departed, his impassioned leaving speech was devoted to how badly Worcester needs the skywalk to happen, urging decision-makers to not let people down.

"It's brilliant, it's unique: my message to the city would be 'let's make sure this happens'," he pleaded.

What would he say now?

* A BY-ELECTION will be staged in Bedwardine this May after Tory David Wilkinson quit the city council - but was he pushed?

The official reason given was that he 'no longer lives in Worcester', which is true - but he's been based at Abbots Lench, near Evesham, for two years.

* YOU will read this here first, but The Source has detected a growing link between Brexit and booze.

Last month Worcester MP Robin Walker enjoyed a trip to Scotland under his role as a Brexit minister, catching up with the Scotch Whisky Association.

And last week Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier's job as a trade minister took him to, you guessed it, the botting halls of Scotland where he accompanied officials from the same body to a booze distillery.

If this is a tactic to bribe grumpy Eurocrats with drink, I'm all for it.

* POLITICIANS dread hearing the phrase "you're all the same" but there is only one thing worse, as ex-city Labour MP Mike Foster found out.

Door knocking in Rainbow Hill for May's elections, he tweeted: "Bit surprised to be called 'Robin', whoever he is."

* MIND you a nasty surprise might be waiting for some election hopefuls if they take the wrong turn into a road in Claines.

One householder in Vicarage Lane says he has stuck a sign on the front door asking nobody, of any political persuasion, to bother ringing the bell over the next six weeks.

"I don't answer the door to salesmen or politicians," he tells us.