PRIME Minister and Witney MP David Cameron is getting the red carpet treatment in the US of A this week – although The Insider fears that is more to do with President Obama wanting to play “world statesman” in election year than any strengthening of the special relationship.

But between talks in Washington (perhaps on the environment?) Mr Obama took Mr Cameron to see a college basketball game... in Ohio, right.

They hopped aboard Air Force One – the president’s private Boeing 747 – to make the journey.

No doubt Mr Cameron and his Cabinet will be a little envious – our Government has axed ministerial cars for all but the chosen few and hired a British Airways jet to get Mr Cameron across the Atlantic.

If fact, when Government minister Nick Hurd MP visited Oxford last year, he arrived in a Thrifty rental van!

And we hope Mr Cameron hasn’t made a promise he can’t keep — he vowed to teach the US President the laws of cricket.

Although it is long, drawn out and frequently ends in stalemate... a concept both men should be acutely aware of.

  • It appears not all of Oxfordshire’s residents took advantage of the warm weather on Sunday.

Carterton’s deputy mayor Adrian Coomber spentthe day escaping demon monkeys – and the pressures of public office – in the computer game Temple Run.

How do we know this, you ask? Well, Mr Coomber also spent the day live tweeting his results, which are as follows: By 1pm Mr Coomber had reached a score of 56,040, but then just an hour later came a flurry of tweets, which revealed scores of 87,108, then 94,554 and finally 95,340.

We presumed the dip in performance caused him to stop playing, but he hit back with an almighty score of 142,400 by 3pm and then 194,143 by 4pm.

At 5pm, he was up to 220,731 and ended the day with a grand total of 657,608.

  • Chief Inspector Colin Paine was once again keeping the media abreast of goings-on in west Oxfordshire via Twitter this week.

The pack had gathered outside Witney police station on Tuesday after news spread of former The Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks’s early morning arrest in connection with investigations into allegations of phone hacking.

He tweeted: “For the benefit of the media assembling outside Witney police station: – there is no custody facility here!”

For the record, Mrs Brooks, who lives with her racehorse trainer husband Charlie Brooks in Sarsden, near Chipping Norton, and is also a former chief executive of the two newspapers’ publisher, News International, was questioned at Banbury police station and released on bail that evening.

  • Tired of borrowing someone else’s horse to ride – then you’re in luck. The Blue Cross animal sanctuary just outside Burford is appealing for people to rehome abandoned horses.

So if anyone in the Burford/Chipping Norton area is on the lookout for a new mount, they know who to call.