Being Conservative Party leader and the town’s very own MP was not enough to bag David Cameron and his family a table at a popular Witney restaurant over the festive period, The Insider learns.

Our mole carrying the ketchup tells us the Witney MP, right, was turned away from American-style diner Frankie & Benny’s in Marriotts Walk as there were no tables free.

Mr Cameron’s spokesman Caroline Preston confirmed: “Unfortunately, when David arrived at Frankie & Benny’s there were already people waiting at the bar for their tables.

“The staff couldn’t have been more polite, and explained there would be quite a long wait. As David had the children with him he decided to go elsewhere this time.”

Who says standards are slipping at the BBC? At the end of a recent edition of the BBC Oxford news, one eagle-eyed viewer spotted that the Roman numerals indicating when the programme was made read MCMX, which, as any fool knows, is 1910.

Oops! Surely even the BBC isn’t that behind the times.

Fragrant veteran Liberal Democrat city councillor Jean Fooks has been called many things in her time, but The Insider was aghast to hear one senior member of her party openly call her “gobby, but very effective” recently.

Ms Fooks, who took a barrage of personal criticism when she was in charge of Oxford’s wheelie bin revolution a few years ago, has a reputation of taking an issue by the scruff of the neck but gobby, surely not.

Some prefer hard drugs, some like hard drink, but what, prey tell, is the substance of choice for Oxford West & Abingdon MP Dr Evan Harris?

Well, it is Diet Coke, apparently.

He was seen quickly quaffing a can at a recent town hall meeting and The Insider learns that everyone’s favourite Doc loves nothing more than a Diet Coke break every now and again.

How refreshing.

Shocking revelations from the national press about skullduggery in Oxford’s junior football leagues.

Summertown Stars AFC chairman Jim White – who just happens to write for The Daily Telegraph – lifted the lid on a host of dark arts in one of his recent columns.

He said: “I recently witnessed an under-10 game in which one of the sides had been drilled in all sorts of cheating.

“Shirt-pulling, standing on rivals’ toes at corners, feigning injury, plus, of course, diving.”

Is this what our national game has come to?

Mr White declined to name and shame the offenders, but The Insider would love to hear from anyone who knows who they are.