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Corby: Chick-Lit to Cricket?  Could England Cricket Hero Be Tory MP? It's the last week of silly season and this year's selection of summer folly has gone out with a bang. On Wednesday Guido got wind of a rumour that Tory supporter and England cricketing hero Andrew Strauss was being lined up as the Conservative Corby candidate who could hit Labour's Andy Sawford for six. Local Tories were quickly on the case, before the bookies slashed the odds from 50/1 to just 8/1. All the papers ran the story but this morning rained stopped play as CCHQ revealed Strauss had missed the Corby deadline. Though they didn't rule him out for 2015... Away from such silliness there was some serious trouble for Tim Yeo this week. After the shameless chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee wrote a piece in the Telegraph demanding more flights to China, Guido revealed that Yeos' company TMO Renewables had signed a big new contract in - that's right - China. There was more Tory trouble on Bank Holiday Monday as Nadine Dorries fired both barrels at Louise Mensch, before Louise was finally made an ex-MP. Nadine might not miss her, but Guido will... No silly season would be complete without the loony left making collective fools of themselves. First George Monbiot vindicated his Moonbat nickname by hoping that the Republican National Convention would be flooded, before union fat cat Bob Crow squirmedhis way out of questions about his council house. If that were not enough Dolly Draper's business then went bust before Labour wonk-shop IPPR's report on wind power turned out to be a load of hot air. Next week normal business resumes... Advertisement   Week's Most Read Stories This week 159,030 visitors visited 344,254 times viewing 586,057 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: Dorries on Mensch: Fires Both Barrels  Bob Crows About His Council House Andrew Strauss Could Stump Labour in Corby Bookies Slash Odds on Tory Corby Win With Strauss Existential Crisis at 'Hacked Off' Tim Yeo's Heathrow to China Bonanza UKIP Polling 12% to LibDems 10% You're either in front of Guido, or behind...