Local Labour chiefs have denied asking local cinemas to not show 'In The Loop' a satire on government spin which has been released nationwide today. Neither the Showcase or Vue are showing the film this weekend which is coming out at a deeply embarrassing moment for the Labour Party.

Reading Labour deputy leader Tony Page told us: "It's not true that we asked for it to be pulled from local cinemas. The film is all about truly astonishing ineptitude and self-serving underhand behaviour, cover-ups, deliberate and inadvertent slips of the tongue and leaking of documents. We don't need to have a big budget film exposing all that when we've been working on a local version called 'In The Poop' for the last 22 years. It's amazing what you can capture with a live webcam of council meetings."