The former leader of Cornwall Council Alec Robertson has said he would consider standing for election again if he was asked.

BBC: Alec Robertson

Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story about actor Alec Baldwin, who apparently freaked out on an American Airlines flight when an attendant asked him to turn off his mobile device.

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Alec Shelbrooke was labelled by some as the ultimate Scrooge just before Christmas when he asked MPs to back his idea of making benefits payments through an electronic cash card which would not be valid for buying luxuries such as alcohol, tobacco or satellite TV subscriptions.

BBC: Yorkshire MP withdraws his benefits cash card bill