What do you mean, more meddling in city affairs by Oxfordshire County Council?

The Insider has learned that those pesky people at County Hall are planning to scrap the city's health scrutiny and overview committee without any public consultation.

And this coming so soon after Tuesday's parking permit farce.

One concerned city councillor said: "It would mean no opportunity for the people of Oxford to be represented when it comes to decisions the PCT is making.

"I'm baffled - does the county see it as another irritation they could do without?"

Watch this space for another city v county spat.

Could Tory Party leader and Witney MP David Cameron, who is struggling to find credible policies less than three weeks before his bow at his first party conference as leader, have found an unlikely London mayoral or A-list candidate in soccer hardman-turned-actor Vinnie Jones?

The Insider learns told Mr Jones - of Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels fame - considers himself a Conservative, but is concerned working-class Tories have no voice on the estates.

Yes, that's right, this is the same multi-millionaire Hollywood actor who lives, mainly, in very large houses. Of course, he was a hod carrier before making his break as a footballer.

One high-ranking Oxfordshire County Council employee was baffled - and slightly worried - when an offbeat email popped up on his PC this week.

The unnamed employee was alarmed, but rightly intrigued when "a survey and health assessment of chemical substances in sex toys by the Danish Environment Protection Agency" arrived in his inbox.

Among some of the more enlightening information was this: "Sex toys may contain certain chemicals...some of these can be released during use of the sex toys.

"The results show that there is no risk using the sex toys once a week."

Henley's Tory MP Boris Johnson has laid into Scottish Chancellor Gordon Brown about the West Lothian Question - the conundrum that MPs north of the border can vote on English matters, but not vice versa.

Mr Johnson told The Insider: "It's an outrage and an infamy they get to vote on things affecting us in Oxfordshire while English MPs don't have a say on matters in Scotland.

"It's an injustice that people are starting to observe beyond Westminster and that is why Gordon Brown bangs on about Britishness, but all the speeches in the world won't remedy this injustice."

He added: "He's (Brown) not a man to kick up his heels in sheer joie de vie, is he?"