Yes, we have official confirmation that it's full steam ahead for a November election as the Labour Party press office, er, Reading Borough Council's PR department managed a record breaking ten press releases in a mere two days, beating their previous record of a 33% increase in Labour PR puffs in one month during the last council elections.

A council PR officer told us: "As soon as we got the call from Gordon, all leave was cancelled and we bust a gut getting out as many press releases mentioning Labour councillors as we could. Unfortunately one managed to sneak through as a neutral item, but we blame that on tight deadlines and last week's Labour party conference which made it difficult to find a Labour councillor ready to come up with a quotable fatuous remark."