JOHNSON TOLD TO SEARCH FOR ANCIENT RUINS

..and they're not talking about his political career

- SASKIA ROWLANDS

HIS political career collapsed spectacularly when so many of his blunders were unearthed.

So Boris Johnson could be forgiven for not wanting the past to be dug up yet again.

But parish councillors are calling for archaeologists to excavate land around his Oxfordshire village mansion as its five-acre grounds are believed to have been the site of a 12th-century siege castle.

They acted after studying his plans for a 36ft swimming pool at the £3.8million pile.

An official objection was raised at a meeting last week.