Local Labour Party member Richard McKenzie has been selected by the Henley Labour Party to lose his deposit fight the seat at the coming Henley by-election. The contest looks to be increasingly acrimonious as local Tories grow increasingly annoyed that the Liberal Democrats are taking the contest in the traditionally safe seat seriously.

The local Tory Party chairman told us: "How dare they ruin our Summer? Right now we should be putting up marquees, ordering the strawberries and drinking Pimms in preparation for the regatta not scurrying around Oxfordshire like a pack of our demented fox hounds."

The Conservative Party are hoping that Lib Dem plans to increase road tax on 4x4s by one hundred million percent will be a vote winner in the largely rural constituency. They also promise to entice another 100,000 women back into the work place by reclassifying nanny duties as secretarial work.