Reading Conservatives have hit out at Lib Dem plans for a 10,000% rise in council tax.

Former senior Lib Dem Ali Asghar has been briefing his new colleagues on his former party's plans. He told us: "I can tell you that as well as increasing the council tax to a hundred-fifty million pounds per person, when I was in the Lib Dems they planned to give free drugs to burglars and car thieves, invite travellers to use council car parks for free, cut the teenage pregnancy rate in Reading by forcing all year 10 pupils to be gay, twin the town with Havana and introduce non-contact boxing into all council run sports facilities."

Local Lib Dem Councillor Kirsten Bayes complained. "Mr. Asghar has broken a confidentiality agreement by revealing all our secret plans. We hope that when he is standing for the Tories that he doesn't do what he did last time and run away from the Labour tellers like a little girl. It was very embarrassing."