This week in 1988:

* Worcester City football fans are being urged to dip into their pockets to pay for the club's future success.

City's new commercial manager Dave Boddy has come up with a Pounds for Points money-raising scheme.

He said: "We are looking for 100 or more individuals and businesses to sponsor the club for £1 for every point the team collect in the Beazer Homes League Premier Division during the next 12 months."

Dave is hoping to generate about £8,000 from the scheme if manager George Rooney and the City team can come up with the goods on the field.

* Worcester looks set to get a crucial three-mile stretch of outer ring road completely free of charge. Developers of the proposed 5,000 homes in the Warndon housing expansion zone will be footing the £3 million bill to construct the city's eastern orbital route from Spetchley Road to Newtown Road.

This week in 1978:CITY councillors have given a mixed reception to County Hall plans to transform part of Worcester's High Street into a paved over pedestrian zone. Even so, they have narrowly approved in principle the £20,000 pilot project to pave over 55 yards of High Street from Bank Street to MacFisheries. This will take in the frontages of Debenhams, Boots, Littlewoods and Barclays Bank. But councillors were particularly concerned that a 14ft wide track would be left through the paved area for buses and delivery vehicles to pass along.

* The whole of Worcester's former electricity works beside the Severn in Hylton Road may now be demolished. The Central Electricity Generating Board has submitted fresh plans to the city council for permission to pull down the entire former power station and provide three units of light industry and five units of warehousing on the site.

This week in 1968:THE silent farms of Worcestershire are beginning to return to normal after the foot-and-mouth plague. From last Thursday when re-stocking was permitted, the farms which had been stripped by the devastating national foot-and-mouth epidemic began receiving replacement livestock for that destroyed. The National Farmers' Union is compiling a register of farmers who have replacement stock for sale. The biggest demand is for dairy cattle.

* Midland Red West is making a plea to Worcester's motorists to avoid parts of the city or to travel by bus in order to help the company combat delays. Major traffic problems in the city are being caused by water main replacements, diversions off the M5, and the volume of private vehicles which combine to create havoc with the local bus schedules.

* The Avon Valley Swimming Pool Association has now raised £2,490 towards the £20,000 needed for its proposed pool at Pershore.

This week in 1958:Worcester City Council is proposing to carry out its first big slum clearance scheme involving the demolition of 135 houses in the Moor Street area. Council officers say the houses are "badly arranged, old, excessively damp, poorly lighted, small roomed, in a poor state for repair and congested at the rear."

* Transport Minister Harold Watkinson has announced that work on the Ross spur, a new 20-mile motorway, will start in the spring. It will form part of Britain's future network of major roads and is designed to open up a faster and better route for traffic between the Midlands and South Wales. It is estimated to cost £6 million. The new motorway will enable drivers to avoid steep and narrow roads, often unsuitable for heavy vehicles. The Ross spur will eventually be extended to link up with the M5 at Strensham.