So I called one of the city’s many influentials today to talk about some major issues facing the area.

“Hold on a minute will you?” he said, having picked up the phone to my automatically withheld number, “I’m having a p***!”

I presumed I’d dialled a wrong number. Was this really the voice of one of the key players who fights for Leicester’s interests here and elsewhere? It sure was.

“There, can you hear it flushing?” he said, before launching into a professional conversation.

It’s lucky he’d picked up the phone to a humble hack from the Mercury. If it was someone with more clout it could have been far more embarrassing.

Totally bizarre behaviour.

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