We have been left scratching our heads this week as to exactly when Oxfordshire County Council passed a motion declaring its leader Keith Mitchell "charismatic and captivating".

Yes, they were the choice words used to describe the council leader in the latest issue of Oxon News, the publicity leaflet written in-house and pushed through hundreds of thousands of letterboxes across the county. This should be a political publication telling you about the good works of our county council.

But the authors have taken it upon themselves to say: "Oxfordshire County Council's charismatic leader Keith Mitchell..." And that led us to wonder what adjectives the 74 current sitting councillors would use to describe Mr Mitchell if they were asked?

Last week the Oxford Mail revealed that only a tiny fraction of the crimes committed in a month were made public by the good people at Thames Valley Police.

After this, the boys in blue said they would hand out lots more information through neighbourhood updates and the like. But even we were not prepared for the Earth-shattering bulletins that came our way this week.

Were these latest neighbourhood updates full of crime reduction advice, witness appeals and crime trends? No. Take Chipping Norton's update, for example, issued by Sgt Rosemary Dilsaver on Monday, which revealed Police Community Support Officer Cheryl Roberts had got hitched and is now Cheryl Harrison.

Meanwhile, in Charlbury, PCSO Wes Smith has shaved his beard off. Hold the front page. On second thoughts...

Poor old John Tanner. Oxford's self-styled ‘Mr Clean’ sent out a round robin letter this week in response to his Government's measures to provide better insulation for the elderly this winter.

It was sent via email entitled ‘Warmth for Oxford’. Rather excitedly, we were expecting lengthy, purple prose about what Mr Tanner could do to warm the city's OAPs.

However, our vigorous system identified his email as junk mail, so we never found out.

The Liberal Democrats are a fun lot. You may remember we revealed they tend to hold their meetings on Friday nights.

Last week, they decided to hold one on the same night England played Croatia in a World Cup qualifier.

One mole said a football-mad councillor walked into the meeting and said "we’re winning", while a less well-informed colleague asked what the Lib Dems were winning?

Political lookalikes: No.17. The latest in an occasional series of passing resemblances this week comes in the shape of Colonel Sanders, left, of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, and John Tanner, right, Oxford City Council's self-styled Mr Clean.