This month’s “Candidate to be put on the bus” is Councillor Jason Zadrozny, the leader of Ashfield District Council in Nottinghamshire, who was convicted of nine counts of fraud and four counts of fraudulent evasion of income tax after trial.

Topics from random newspaper cuttings for discussion included: Policy Research to end the UK's dire Eurovision results. War Museum that says it has nothing to do with war. Air traffic control glitch impacted 300,000 people. Breastfeeding for children can prevent obesity. The 2032 Olympic rowing course in Australia has 500 crocodiles. Traffic signs that are hidden by overgrown hedges and trees. Mackerel in a tin may not be the real thing. How to impress your date with pre-emptive charity donations. Climate change results in champagne going from strength to strength.

Generation Zzzz: one in three 15-year-olds say they hardly ever leave their bedroom. Animal rights protesters have a new focus: knitwear - they disrupted London Fashion Week claiming cruel practises on sheep farms. Conspiracy theorists are targeting traffic scanners. President Trump's triumphal arch in Washington will also be a top-grade military complex housing drones and snipers. The country’s longest running rewilding project has become embroiled in a dispute about whether storks reintroduced actually belong in Britain at all.

Citizens Advice say service providers should offer right to talk to a human. €1.00 student meal deal sends French canteen staff to the barricades. A deputy High Court judge was criticised for hearing an appeal from his bed via video link the day after discharge from hospital. Eating alone is worse for your health. Male bosses will hire more women after having their first daughter. A 14th century gold ring found by metal detectorists on April fool's day is set to fetch up to £12,000. Scientists suggest that there are undiscovered tombs behind Tutankhamun's burial chamber.

David Colyer