It's the Party of the Year as Trish Haines bows out with a lavish ceremony at the Town Hall. The great and the good of Reading will be there locked in the janitor's cupboard, but everyone else will be in attendance to wish Trish well in her new job. The cakes have been ordered and wild horses wouldn't keep the Mayor away.

Literally tens of staff queued up to sign her leaving card and the £200,000 per year new Chief Executive of Worcestershire will be presented with a leaving present after a collection was made from council staff celebrating their 2.5% increase. Primark have promised to exchange her gift if she remembers to bring the receipt.

Leader of the council David Sutton will be making the keynote speech thanking Trish for all the hard work her council have done supplementing the Reading Labour Party's publicity and communications budget.