JEREMY Corbyn's Worcester visit went down a storm, with his followers eagerly flocking to the High Street to worship their bearded messiah.

Yet it's easy to get carried away, as former Labour MEP David Hallam will testify.

Mr Hallam, who now works as a Labour PR 'spinner', accompanied Jezza to the University of Worcester on Monday and promptly fell at his feet in front of a startled group of national press hacks.

Whoops!

* CELEB film director Ken Loach also happened to pitch up in Worcester on Monday, following Corbyn around as part of a documentary into the Labour leader's life.

But the scale of the party's General Election mountain was summed up perfectly when some student nurses asked him about Labour's chances.

"Well, Leicester City won the Premiership," Loach told them.

* THE rumour mill always goes into overdrive at election time, but how much of it can you actually believe?

Last week sources galore insisted Worcester Tory Marc Bayliss was going for the Redditch parliamentary candidacy, a plum seat left vacant by the departure of Karen Lumley.

Alas, none of it was true - with Cllr Bayliss as bemused as everyone else in his party at the fallacious gossip.

* EX-WORCESTER MP Mike Foster can tick another 'I've done that' box off his list after being invited onto Radio 4's Today programme this week to talk about fox hunting.

While he was waiting to be grilled by chief interrogator John Humphrys he shared a waiting room with James Rubin, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs during the Clinton administration.

"It was certainly an experience," he tells us.

* THE county council is anxiously waiting on a response over a £70 million bid to central Government for dualling Carrington Bridge, but you'd be forgiven for believing a decision has been made.

Leader Cllr Simon Geraghty's pre-election publicity material included the eye-opening sentence: "We are dualling the Southern Link Road, including Carrington Bridge."

Will this come back to bite him on the you-know-what?

* LET'S hope Labour's West Worcestershire parliamentary candidate has a proper compass over the coming weeks.

Samantha Charles also stood for the county council last week, but her election leaflets were inexplicably shoved through voter's doors in the wrong area.