Reading Borough Council has launched a new initiative designed to save council tax payers' money. From the 21st October plans for local transport improvements are being delivered direct to homes on the council's behalf by the local Labour Party.

Pat Baxter told us: "It been getting a bit hairy recently for some of our Labour colleagues - you know what Lib Dems are like when they gang up together. In some cases our Labour chums have been promising residents they were going to do something about local traffic problems for years, then all of a sudden some snotty Liberal gets elected in their ward and they start to look like they've been sitting on their arses and been taking the electorate for granted. By allowing local residents to get their first glimpse of council plans in Labour Party propaganda, we hope that they'll think that their Labour councillors were doing something after all and that it's got nothing to do with our surplus transport budget which we're desperately trying to find ways of spending before we lose it at the end of the financial year. We owe the Labour Party a massive debt for slavishly rubber stamping everything we've put in front of them so it's the least we can do for them."