WORCESTERSHIRE could have a special visitor during Parliament's long summer recess - Tony Blair.

At least, that's what Tory MP Peter Luff is hoping.

He has tabled a parliamentary question urging the Prime Minister to include Throckmorton on his list of holiday destinations.

Mr Luff decided to make contact with Downing Street after it emerged Mr Blair is planning a "morale-boosting" tour of the great British countryside.

He went on a rural holiday last year to try and give the tourist industry a fillip in the wake of the devastating foot-and-mouth crisis.

And Downing Street is now trying to come up with a list of possible destinations for this year.

Mr Luff believes Throckmorton - home to a foot-and-mouth burial dump and, quite possibly, a massive asylum seeker centre - would be an ideal destination for the PM and his family.

"I have invited him to pay us a visit so he can see exactly what his Government is planning to do to Throckmorton," the Mid-Worcestershire MP said.

"Hopefully, seeing it first hand would show him just what a bad idea the asylum accommodation centre is."

The campaign group PACT - Protest at the Asylum Centre at Throckmorton - has said it would also be keen for the PM to show his face.

"We'd tell him what complete nonsense it is to put a centre here," said a spokesman.

But it's thought Downing Street may have other destinations in mind.

Rather than landing their man in a field full of animal carcases, they want Mr Blair to be associated with "eye-catching rural initiatives".

Early contenders are said to include an eco-friendly wind farm or a farm planting "energy crops" such as willow or poplar.

These are harvested and burnt to produce "clean" electricity, and would look much nicer in the Blair family album than a snap of the PM surrounded by upset householders.

n Parliament is now in recess. James Slack returns for the Labour Party Conference on Saturday, October 5.