IT'S fair to say more and more people around the city are getting to know the newish Mayor of Worcester, our old chum Cllr Alan Amos.

In fact, stuff sending him to Coventry, he's unwittingly annoyed so many people in recent weeks some have said they'd rather he stayed abroad rather than return from his recent holidays.

But credit where it's due, our first citizen has been working his socks off recently, including opening up a new £6.5 million care home on Charles Hastings Way only the other week.

But amid all the talk around the murky one's rise to prominence, none of it has obviously filtered through to Care UK, the owners of the grand complex who sent us a press release all about the official opening.

It boasted about the care home's new pensioners meeting the Mayor of Worcester, but for some inexplicable reason got our controversial man mixed up with the Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, who ironically goes by the name of Joseph 'Petty'.

A quick Google glance reveals that over the pond, Mayor Petty goes by the title of 'Mayor and Councillor-at-large', which is probably the kind of grand title Cllr Amos would love.

Maybe these two have more in common than we thought.

* INCIDENTALLY, one member of the public was so enraged by the whole Cllr Amos saga that he made a formal complaint to Worcester City Council earlier this month.

The fellow in question, a doctor with no political ties, copied in half the city's movers and shakers to an email, saying he wanted to formally complain about not only our 'chained friend' but every single Conservative councillor in Worcester on the basis they voted him into office.

It hasn't gone anywhere, but the council's legal bods have replied to him saying they will send his feedback onto the political leadership anyway.

Our complainant is now threatening to take the matter all the way to the Local Government Ombudsman.

Happy days at Orchard House, eh?

* THE Source always thought Cllr Joe Baker, one of Labour's bright young starlets at Worcestershire County Council, was slightly bonkers and now we have further proof.

Joe, a former guard in a maximum security prison in Scotland, recently told County Hall leader Cllr Adrian Hardman he resembled "Darth Vader", which may be true, but you wouldn't say it to his face.

Cllr Hardman was having a chat with fellow Tory Juliet Brunner the other day, and said: "Do you know that Joe Baker? He's as mad as a box of frogs!"

Ribbit, ribbit.