Oxfordshire County Council’s outgoing leader, 65-year-old Keith Mitchell, might well think seeing Professor Green involves a glass of claret at Jesus College or a nice game of Cluedo.

But his new-found replacement Ian Hudspeth is perhaps much more in tune with today’s youth, tweeting this photo of himself at the Hackney-born rapper’s concert in London last month.

The 52-year-old is pictured with his daughter and is sporting a Jessie J T-shirt.

The Insider suspects Mr Mitchell would rather join the Green Party than the crowd at that gig.

X Factor reject and tabloid favourite Kitty Brucknell lived up to the diva stereotype before her appearance at Talent Oxford.

The 27-year-old star was gearing up back stage for her appearance at the Templars Square Shopping Centre in Cowley when she was faced with an insurmountable problem.

One of her shoelaces was longer than the other… disaster.

A visibly emotional Brucknall began to rant at her entourage until finally the wardrobe malfunction was fixed.

And then she took to the stage to entertain her fans, what a trooper.

The Insider has just one word of advice for the sensitive starlet… velcro.

And for the nay-sayers who think that the world of local government lacks razzmatazz, then check this out.

Oxford City Council’s executive member for stronger communities Antonia Bance spent time last week hanging out with Big Brother winner (and star of ITV1’s mid-morning DIY show 60 Minute Makeover) Craig Phillips.

For the record, the pair were at a pop-up shop in Liverpool for the charity Shelter (Ms Bance is a campaigns manager for the charity).

Rumours that Oxford Town Hall is to be refitted with MDF panelling to save money are untrue.

Much-maligned Royal Bank of Scotland chief Stephen Hester did his bit for charity last weekend. The boss of the bailed-out bank, which also owns NatWest, who came under heavy fire for a £963,000 bonus that he would later waive, opened the garden at his Broughton Grange home, near Banbury, to the public.

Entrance to the estate was £6, with the fee going to charity.

But it seems even the great British weather has it in for Mr Hester… it poured down all day.

One of the national newspapers didn’t seem too well disposed towards him either, devoting space to the event in the hope the public would be outraged at the lushness of the garden of one of its nominated pantomime villains of the year.

The Insider was less outraged at this “exclusive”, which simply boiled down to the understandable fact that rich man has big garden.