This week in 1958:

Police Club probe at Worcester. The four-man team from the West Riding Constabulary who have been investigating the affairs of the Worcester City Police Club, have completed their inquiries in Worcester and have returned to their headquarters in Wakefield.

On December 20 last, the Mayor of Worcester, Councillor Harold Richards announced to the city council that the Chief Constable of Worcester City Police, Mr Glyn Davies had been suspended from duty on two-thirds pay.

Mr Davies has been treasurer of the police club for some years. The investigating team will now compile their report and send it to the mayor.

* About 2,000 gallons of beer literally went down the drain when a tanker skidded and overturned on the icy road surface at Baynhall, Kempsey on Monday morning. The driver of the tanker, owned by the Ind Coope and Allsopp brewery, escaped injury.

This week in 1968:AN appeal has been made by the West Mercia Police for the surrender of firearms during the period of three months starting today. From May 1, with certain exceptions, it will be an offence for anyone to have a shotgun in his possession or to buy or otherwise acquire a shotgun, unless he has obtained a certificate from the police.

During the three months' period, illegally held firearms and ammunition can be surrendered without fear of prosecution. It is thought that a considerable number of weapons may be held in houses where they have come to light after lying hidden or forgotten in cupboards and attics.

* Mr Leonard John Aston of Kempsey has retired after 30 years as a coach operator. He started LJ Aston Coaches in 1929 when he bought a 14-seater bus to transport children to school. Today the firm has a fleet of six coaches. Although the business has been sold it will retain the name of Aston's.

This week in 1978:PEOPLE in Clifton-upon-Teme have spotted unidentified flying objects - for the second time in recent months. The latest sightings of mysterious orange cigar-shaped objects in the sky occurred on Tuesday evening just before dusk. The spotters, including 71 year old Percy Fox and Mrs Anne Wortlehock, claim the objects were moving far too slowly to have been aircraft.

* Doctors at Powick Hospital are staging a novel experiment in the treatment of their geriatric patients. By furnishing wards in the style of the 1900s, 1920s, 1930s etc., the staff hope to discover whether mentally ill elderly people prefer old fashioned living. It is also hoped that the steps back into the past might help some elderly patients, who have become confused, to remember some of their past. The hospital has launched a public appeal for old furniture and fittings to be loaned or given to help reconstruct the vintage scenes.

This week in 1988:The sky's the limit as Worcester's newest multi-storey car park takes shape. Work started four months ago on the £2.7 million answer to the city's parking problems, and it is already taking shape at St Martin's Gate.

The six-deck structure will provide spaces for 820 cars.

A well-known Worcester market trader has given a city hospital a massive £100,000 cash boast in her will. Mrs Edith Winkle spent the last months of her life in the Geriatric Unit of Newtown Hospital. She died last August at the age of 80 and her final wish was to repay the hospital's care of her by leaving it almost all her estate of £119,000.

Mrs Winkle of Nelson Road spent all her life in Worcester and had a stall in the Blackfriars Market and also at Bromsgrove and ran a small shop in Lowesmoor selling clothes.