Big Screen for the weekend.

Southampton is to get a big screen curtsey of the BBC for the Common to watch the England v Portugal game at the weekend. Should be a good afternoon out on the common.

Meanwhile local Labour MP Alan Whitehead has been given free tickets to the World Cup, curtsey of McDonald's. Although he did not get them directly his colleague and fellow Labour MP, Clive Betts in his capacity as Chairman of the Parliamentary Football Club got the tickets.

This is not Mr Betts first brush with controversy. People may recall Mr Betts was suspended from the House of Commons in July 2003 for his part in a bogus immigration application by his Brazilian male escort and lover that he then went onto employ as his parliamentary assistant.