1802: Advert: Chilblains - In every way, the penetrating powers of Whitehead's Essence of Mustard has frequently succeeded of curing the most desperate cases of chilblains, rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago an, Sciatica, Headache and Palsy. It can be bought in Worcester from J. Tymbs, Apothecary and Printer of this Journal, at High Street.

Several public notices informed Journal readers of the imminent reopening of private schools in Worcestershire. "At the Academy in Silver Street, Worcester, John Simpson and his Assistants have vacancies for Young Gentlemen to be boarded and attentively instructed in various branches of a Classical, Commercial, Polite and Useful Education." "At Little Witley School, Miss Thomas offers places for the education of Young Ladies. "At Shelesley School, Mr Mapp again has accommodation for 12 boarders to be instructed in all branches of Literature." "Jones's Academy at Hanbury is opening for the reception of Young Gentlemen." "Mrs and Miss Yate respectfully inform their friends that Ombersley Boarding School is about to re-open."

1902: Sir Edward Clarke K.C, in a witty speech to a Worcestershire audience, suggested that ping-pong had its origins among the Romans. A certain cynic says that primeval apes played ping-pong with nuts in pre-historic glades, with a hedge or a horizontal bough as the net. Thence he derives ping-pong, not from the noise, but from the word Pongo which seems to be one of the nicknames for the monkey. Devotees of ping-pong desire that it shall be known as table tennis which, we ascertain, it emphatically is not!

Susannah Corbett (19), a sweet maker of Pheasant Street, Worcester, was charged at the City Police Court with using obscene language in Bath Road on Sunday. PC Hall said the girl was with three other girls and a party of soldiers. The Chief Constable said the residents of Bath Road had frequently complained of the bad language of girls with soldiers from Norton Barracks. He asked the Bench to inflict a heavy fine. Defendant, who had a previous conviction for a similar offence, was fined 5s with 3/6d costs.

1952: In memory of the 27 members of the Worcestershire County Council staff who made the Supreme Sacrifice during the 1939-45 War, Sir Chad Woodward, the council's Chairman, has unveiled a clock in the main hall of the Shirehall. It has been erected above the 1914-18 War Memorial plaque which carries the name of eight staff members killed in that conflict.

Plans are in hand to place a Zebra crossing in the village of Ombersley. It will be sited outside the Post Office.