Woman who came last in Labour's deputy leadership race digs Mike Freer's Facebook page

Take comfort where you can. Fans of Barnet council leader Mike Freer have been celebrating the endorsement of Barnet's forays into social media by Hazel Blears, the communities and local government minister.

Anyone who looks at Barnet's social media, such as the much vaunted and under-used whereilive.org website, will realise that Ms Blears probably hasn't looked at it, and that she has simply been briefed by a civil servant.

But this little piece of good news for Freer in a period of unremitting gloom begs to be spun (almost out of recognition).