Barton ward Oxford city councillor Mike Rowley was in a rush to get hold of something before this week’s full council meeting.

The Insider spotted the Labour man running full pelt down St Aldate’s, suit jacket flailing behind.

Minutes later Mr Rowley returned to the Town Hall, clutching a copy of the Oxford Mail.

County councillor Ian Hudspeth, pictured, asked his followers on Twitter for some interesting advice this week.

“How do you start a conversation in the toilet when the man next to you is Fabio Capello? Must brush up on my Italian!”

We don’t know whether the football-loving council cabinet member had a chinwag with the England coach or not.

And we don’t know what tips he got on approaching men in toilets.

Oxford Town Hall was plunged into darkness this week. The power cut left staff at the cash-strapped city council wondering what had happened.

But chief executive Peter Sloman was soon on the scene to confirm the council had paid the bill.

He was joking, but the way council finance is going, who knows...

The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford Brookes University and the Headington Shark. Some of Oxford’s most well-known landmarks and proof, if any were needed, of Headington’s strong place in the city’s cultural and economic life over recent centuries.

Alas, the thriving suburb seems to have slipped under the radar for someone working at the Town Hall.

While debating the future of area committees, Oxford City Council discovered Headington had – literally – been left off the city’s map. For a brief time on Monday night, it no longer existed.

Cue embarrassment on the Labour side, whose proposals the error appeared in, and amid mutterings of “typo” and “simple accident” as it was hastily re-inserted.

So incensed was the area’s Liberal Democrat councillor, Ruth Wilkinson, that she proposed a motion announcing the council “deplored” the omission.

The motion was quashed, but perhaps not before Ms Wilkinson had made her point.

Cheeky political point-scoring, no doubt, but a question at the same meeting made The Insider giggle.

Green councillor David Williams asked leader Bob Price whether the City Executive Board should be re-named Bob’s Executive Board.

He said it would recognise the new era of the “Supreme Leader” in the written submission.

A rapid glossing-over of the question by councillors later on perhaps suggested how successful Mr Williams will be in his quest.