THIS WEEK IN 1988:

WORCESTER’S pooping pooches are being hounded over the mounting doggie dirt menace. Now, their owners are set to carry poop scoopers as Worcester council leaders put the biggest bite yet on the city’s mucky pups.

Health bosses reckon Worcester’s estimated 9,000 dogs deposit tons of faeces and gallons of urine in the city’s streets and play areas every month.

As a result, councillors are saying: “That’s it. We have had enough picking up your dog’s dirt, now you remove it or else!” Under Worcester’s new poop scoop rules, fines of up to £100 will be imposed on those dog owners who fail to comply.

● As strengthening work on St Andrew’s Spire nears completion, calls are being made on the city council to build a Worcester heritage centre in the base of the Glovers’ Needle. City leisure services committee chairman Councillor Philip Hytch believes there could be no better location for such a facility.

THIS WEEK IN 1978:

MORE than 5,000 people visited the controversial new £8 million County Hall at Nunnery Wood, Worcester for its first open day. An hour before the doors opened, sightseers were queuing to take a peek inside Worcester’s latest tourist attraction which one ratepayer called “a latterday stately home.”

The HQ has cost £13 for every man, woman and child in Worcestershire and Herefordshire but most visitors said they were impressed by what they saw inside, particularly the “beautiful” council chamber.

● Public demands are growing for a local radio station in the Worcester area.

Rob Yarnold of Severn Valley Radio, a station seeking the broadcasting franchise for Worcester, says a Home Office working party is currently considering the possibility of allowing a local radio station to be set up in the city.

THIS WEEK IN 1968:

From Berrow’s Journal’s City and County Jottings page: “Import madness? We are often surprised that there is not a big public outcry about the way imported goods, particularly Japanese, are replacing our own. The motor cycles parked outside our offices in the Trinity are predominantly Japanese and we feel they are representative of the motor cycling picture as a whole.

“Where is the BSA, the Ariel, the Matchless, the Royal Enfield, the Norton and the AJS of yesteryear? Hondas and Yamahas seem to be laughing at their memory.”

Most men shudder at the thought of doing housework but it’s all in the line of duty for Albert Nichols of Wells Grove, White Ladies Aston, near Worcester.

For he is one of only two male Home Helps employed in Worcestershire by the county council.

He said: “Some people might think it’s a silly job for a man but I find the work very rewarding and much prefer it to factory work.”

THIS WEEK IN 1958:

WITH too much rain and not enough sunshine this summer, the bees of Worcestershire and the nation have had a lean time.

In fact, from the point of view of honey production, it has been a disastrous year.

This was the gloomy picture painted at the 1958 Convention of Beekeepers held on Friday at the Pershore Institute of Horticulture.

The conference was attended by beekeepers from nine counties including Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

● Isaac Wolfson will, on Monday, lay the foundation stone of the Wolfson Wing at Worcester College for the Blind in Whittington Road. It has been built thanks to a very large donation made by Mr Wolfson to the Royal National Institution for the Blind.

The Worcester college, founded in 1866, is the only school in Great Britain which provides a public school education for boys without sight. The Wolfson Wing will provide a new science laboratory, practical teaching rooms for metalwork, woodwork and typing, a Braille library, a book store and a chapel.