1803: The medical gentlemen throughout the Kingdom have recommended in the strongest terms that the Volunteers who are at present unused to the inconvenience of military duty should, when called out into actual service, be furnished with extra warm clothing, and we observe with great pleasure that the ladies in this city, as well as in Birmingham and other parts of the country, have in the most kind and handsome manner begun subscriptions for supplying the brave and generous defenders of their persons and country with flannel dresses.

It is said from the highest authority that there is not the least foundation for a report which has lately prevailed injurious to those very laudable and useful institutions called friendly societies. The present members, therefore, will do wisely to continue in them, and others will act prudently by getting admittance into them, in full confidence that their funds will be as secure for the time to come as they have ever been in past years.

1903: "The Firework Fiend" - Albert Chambers, aged 17, labourer of Broadheath, was fined 20 shillings at the Worcester County Petty Sessions for letting off a squib on the highway at Broadheath. W. Ludlow, grocer of Hebb Street, Worcester, said he was driving his horse and dray through Broadheath when the defendant threw the squib towards his horse, which was much frightened. The court heard that Chambers had been cautioned before.

Worcester Watch Committee was told that, on average, only one street gas lamp was out of action each night out of the total of 930 gas lamps throughout the city.

Mr Edward Tweedie has been offered and has accepted the post of Organist and Choirmaster of the chapelry of Whittington and, by consent of the vicars in authority, retains a similar position at St James' Chapel-of-Ease in the parish of Powick.

1953: More than 50 members attended the 24th annual reunion dinner on Saturday of the 1st Worcester Battery, Royal Artillery Old Comrades Association, A/241 Brigade 1914-1919. The President, Colonel A.C.W. Hobson, was in the chair, and the principal guest was the Mayor of Worcester, Dr F.L. Spalding.

There was an entry of 411 for the annual Worcester City and District Domestic Rabbit Show at the Church Hall in Cromwell Street, Worcester. Competition was very keen with exhibitors travelling from as far afield as Exeter, County Durham and Neath.

The Queen has conferred the dignity of a Baronetcy on Sir Rupert De la Bere on his retirement from the office of Lord Mayor of London. Sir Rupert is Conservative MP for South Worcestershire and received the Freedom of Evesham earlier this year.

Jack Henshall, aged 47, of Hollymount, Worcester, fell 21ft from scaffolding outside the St John's premises of Windshields where he was working, and was detained in the Royal Infirmary with a head injury.

1803: The medical gentlemen throughout the Kingdom have recommended in the strongest terms that the Volunteers who are at present unused to the inconvenience of military duty should, when called out into actual service, be furnished with extra warm clothing, and we observe with great pleasure that the ladies in this city, as well as in Birmingham and other parts of the country, have in the most kind and handsome manner begun subscriptions for supplying the brave and generous defenders of their persons and country with flannel dresses.

It is said from the highest authority that there is not the least foundation for a report which has lately prevailed injurious to those very laudable and useful institutions called friendly societies. The present members, therefore, will do wisely to continue in them, and others will act prudently by getting admittance into them, in full confidence that their funds will be as secure for the time to come as they have ever been in past years.

1903: "The Firework Fiend" - Albert Chambers, aged 17, labourer of Broadheath, was fined 20 shillings at the Worcester County Petty Sessions for letting off a squib on the highway at Broadheath. W. Ludlow, grocer of Hebb Street, Worcester, said he was driving his horse and dray through Broadheath when the defendant threw the squib towards his horse, which was much frightened. The court heard that Chambers had been cautioned before.

Worcester Watch Committee was told that, on average, only one street gas lamp was out of action each night out of the total of 930 gas lamps throughout the city.

Mr Edward Tweedie has been offered and has accepted the post of Organist and Choirmaster of the chapelry of Whittington and, by consent of the vicars in authority, retains a similar position at St James' Chapel-of-Ease in the parish of Powick.

1953: More than 50 members attended the 24th annual reunion dinner on Saturday of the 1st Worcester Battery, Royal Artillery Old Comrades Association, A/241 Brigade 1914-1919. The President, Colonel A.C.W. Hobson, was in the chair, and the principal guest was the Mayor of Worcester, Dr F.L. Spalding.

There was an entry of 411 for the annual Worcester City and District Domestic Rabbit Show at the Church Hall in Cromwell Street, Worcester. Competition was very keen with exhibitors travelling from as far afield as Exeter, County Durham and Neath.

The Queen has conferred the dignity of a Baronetcy on Sir Rupert De la Bere on his retirement from the office of Lord Mayor of London. Sir Rupert is Conservative MP for South Worcestershire and received the Freedom of Evesham earlier this year.

Jack Henshall, aged 47, of Hollymount, Worcester, fell 21ft from scaffolding outside the St John's premises of Windshields where he was working, and was detained in the Royal Infirmary with a head injury.