A bit of a Homer Simpson moment for whoever was manning the website at Oxfordshire County Council this week.

In one of their news dispatches about the recent flooding, the headline read "food-hit households".

Presumably, whoever wrote it had doughnuts on their mind, because we think they meant flood-hit. Probably.

Doh!

If you ever wondered why your Stagecoach bus sometimes runs late, then perhaps it is because their drivers are tied up with more important matters.

One of The Insider's spies in the city centre saw a male driver on board his vehicle in a passionate clinch in Butterwyke Place on Monday.

No, really. It was a sight to behold, apparently.

And they said romance was dead. Not on the buses, it isn't.

David Cameron's holiday doesn't appear to have done him much good, does it? Fresh back from a break in France, the Conservative Party leader and Witney MP wanted to start the new term with a bang, ahead of what could be a snap General Election in October.

But while he was out-and-about on the campaign trail, it was just a shame Tory researchers did not do their homework.

Conservative high command this week highlighted 29 accident & emergency and maternity units at hospitals across the country - including The Horton in Banbury - that they claimed were under threat.

But no sooner had they done that than some of the hospitals issued statements denying they were threatened with closure and Norfolk Tory MP Henry Bellingham angrily said he had not been consulted before the name of his local hospital appeared - mistakenly - on the list.

And that bang? It could be the sound of Dave shooting himself in the foot.

As we all know, Keith Mitchell is a busy man (he works 100-hour weeks). But we didn't know the leader of Oxfordshire County Council was a member of 12 masonic lodges and London's Carlton Club "the oldest, most elite, and most important of all Conservative clubs" to boot.

Further inspection of the recently-updated register of councillors' interests has revealed Mr Mitchell and his partner, Cherwell district councillor Lynda Thirzie Smart, enjoyed a meal at the Malmaison brasserie at Oxford Castle on August 2 - estimated at £100 - paid for by Trevor Osborne, the man whose company, Osborne Group, developed the Castle site.

Lucky so and so.

Sartorially-elegant Liberal Democrat deputy city council leader David Rundle's website is a must-read. No, it is.

But the poser asked on his online diary has produced some amusement.

Visitors are asked: "You are a Liberal, you're on a desert island and have only one political tract to read. What is it?"

Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, unsurprisingly, polls 12 per cent of the vote while out in front is On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.

However, worrying for Liberals perhaps, is that the option none of the above - not my sort of beach reading is currently in second place, with 25 per cent of the vote.