THE region's newest MP has been in the district to give a boost to a Wyre Forest parliamentary hopeful.

Liam Byrne, who won the summer by-election in Birmingham Hodge Hill, was the special guest at a dinner to launch the next phase of Labour's bid to win back Wyre Forest through Marc Bayliss.

It was held at the Rock Tavern, Wilden, and Mr Bayliss said: "Liam is already being spoken of as a future cabinet minister and it was great that he could come and share some of his campaigning zeal and expertise."