SOCIAL networking sites can help spread vital information fast. But Tuesday night proved, if proof were needed, that it is also rife with rumour. If every nugget was to be believed, Oxford supermarkets were ablaze, estates were evacuated and David Cameron’s constituency office was under siege.

Rumours are always rife at times like this and Twitter is a great way of getting them confirmed or otherwise.

But it was clear who was posting responsible and reliable information ... so choose who you follow carefully.

FORMER Oxford West and Abingdon MP Evan Harris might be hoping there aren’t many Scousers in his old constituency if he wants his seat back.

He tweeted the following: “Not funny! Well.. RT @LeCanotier In London they called it ‘barbaric’. In Birmingham, ‘horrendous’. In Liverpool they called it ‘Monday’.”

Not sure how that will go down on Merseyside.

And he wouldn’t be the first political figure from Oxfordshire to get in into hot water up there.

Boris Johnson was forced to make a humble apology to Scousers after remarks he made in an article in 2004.

OUR MPs packed their suitcases with paperbacks as they headed off on their summer hols.

But as Parliament was recalled today, they might not get the chance to finish them.

PM David Cameron had packed boarding school caper Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray.

Dave began reading it earlier this year in Ibiza, and wanted to finish it in Tuscany.

Wantage MP Ed Vaizey was planning to curl up with Off Message by Bob Marshall-Andrews.

The former Labour MP for Medway was a perennial thorn in his leader’s side....so perhaps David Cameron should be worried by his Culture Minister’s reading list?

Or perhaps not, Ed stayed very much “on message” as he was reading the book on a “staycation” (we are all in this together, after all).

DAVID Cameron did make one visit before ending his Tuscan holiday... to the cafe where he didn’t leave a tip earlier on his trip. This time the PM left five euros for the waitress after enjoying a beer.