February 8 to February 15, 2010 (From Worcester News)

February 8 to February 15, 2010

12:33pm Tuesday 9th February 2010 in

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THIS WEEK IN 1990:

THE police have praised Worcester licensees over their efforts in helping control law and order in the city centre. Superintendent Brian Corfield said the close liaison between pub landlords, night club owners and law enforcement officers had prevented an increase in problems at the notorious trouble spots of Angel Place and Broad Street. He said an “early warning system” among licensees had proved successful in banning troublemakers from their premises. This had all helped to maintain a dramatic improvement in public order in the city, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. Supt Corfield said: “The unpleasant atmosphere of large intimidating groups of young people gathering after 2am has largely disappeared.”

THIS WEEK IN 1980:

A PLAN to create a late night disco with licensed hours in a former seed warehouse in The Butts, Worcester, has provoked strong protests from local residents and businesses.

Ian Perks of the Music Machine business in Broad Street wants to create the new disco scene on the first and second floors of the former Golledges’ corn and seed warehouse in The Butts. Opening hours would be 8.30pm to 2am. The police have expressed “serious reservations” about the proposed disco, and residents of The Butts fear “teenage gang warfare” on a nearby car park.

Carmichaels, the company with extensive premises in The Butts, fears damage to its plate glass windows from “rowdy and disruptive”

young people. But when Mr Perks’ application came before the city council’s development committee, Councillor Jeff Carpenter urged his colleagues not to be “old fogeys.” He said: “Young people enjoy discos though it can be seen from the average age of this committee that we are beyond that phase.” The committee deferred a decision on the application for “further consultations”.

THIS WEEK IN 1970:

From Berrow’s Journal leader column: Helicopters are a cause for concern in Worcestershire. The county council’s planning committee and the Worcestershire Council for the Protection of Rural England are worried about “invasion of privacy”

while the National Farmers’ Union fears the effects on livestock. But are these fears and concerns justified?

They may well be in the case of farm animals who may be scattered and injured in their panic but surely the frequency of these machines overhead has not yet reached a level where one dare not sunbathe in the garden without a constant glance skywards? What must be borne in mind is that, through the natural course of events, more and more private aircraft must be tolerated. In fact, the sooner travellers start getting off the ground and into the air the sooner will come relief for our roads with their appalling traffic jams. Cattle will just have to accustomise themselves to the buzzing overhead, and sunbathers and lovers will have to take care.