IT'S good to know that in this ever-changing world we can at least rely on the police to get things right.

Or so we thought.

The boys in blue had to hastily rearrange a photocall yesterday to raise awareness about the serious issue of unlicensed taxis in Oxford because they had fixed the event in Gloucester Green, unaware a bustling market is in full swing there every week.

And has been since 1601.

RUMOURS abound over a change at the top table of Oxfordshire County Council where a mini-reshuffle on its policy-making cabinet has taken place.

Veteran Don Seale, no longer has his social and community care role and now heads up culture and sport, with adult learning, while former Tory MP Jim Couchman has taken over social care and policy coordination.

The Insider is told the reshuffle has happened because Mr Couchman was "underloaded", but opposition councillors are more suspicious.

Labour's Barbara Gatehouse said: "It's strange that, after all the effort that has gone into bringing adult social care and cultural services into one directorate, the cabinet responsibilities have now suddenly been split up."

TORY MP Alan Duncan, or Hunky Duncy' as he is affectionately known, was chuffed to be chosen as David Cameron's warm-up act during the Conservatives' spring conference in Manchester at the weekend.

And his stand-up was well received.

He kicked off with a cheap swipe at Henley MP Boris Johnson "he's been sent to Liverpool...and Coventry" before a plea to activists to dig deep and cough up.

Bizarrely, green flowerpots were passed around the auditorium in which delegates were urged to place euros, dollars or £50 notes.

And it seemed to work.

A very pleased Mr Duncan was seen telling an underling in the foyer afterwards that the whipround had raised £6,000.

SO MUCH for Mr Cameron's all-new inclusive Conservative Party, which has placed an emphasis on choice, change, hope and opportunity.

But not in Oxford, it would seem.

If you live in the Blackbird Leys, Cowley, Iffley Fields, Lye Valley, Northfield Brook, St Mary's or Marston wards and have felt the much-publicised Cameron Effect' and had the urge to vote Tory at the forthcoming city council elections on May 4 then, sorry, but you're out of luck. The party isn't fielding candidates there.

KEITH Mitchell, the leader of Oxfordshire County Council, wishes to make clear he does not have a South Coast retreat, as was suggested in The Insider last month, but rents a holiday apartment in Bournemouth for the duration of the Conservative conference when it is held there.

Mr Mitchell would also like to make clear he was aware BMW had produced its 200,000th Mini at the Cowley car plant last year, but preferred not to congratulate the German-owned company until the end of the financial year.