This week in 1958:

Teenage Worcester Girls Crave a Good Time - a sharp stricture relating to teenage girls is made in her annual report by city probation officer Mrs K E Strangeman. "In dealing with girls of the teenage group, there has been an increase in the number appearing before the courts," she explains. "In the majority of these cases, it is the same story - refusal to work, time spent in third-rate cafes, late hours, and a craving for what is termed a good time,' which inevitably ends in disaster. With feelings of unhappiness and insecurity, the girls find themselves short of money and often panic and resort to stealing."

* The annual report from the Commissioners of the Inland Revenue reveals that of Worcestershire's 184,000 income tax payers, 28,400 people had gross income before tax of £500 to £600 a year. About 2,500 people earned more than £2,000 a year, 200 of them having an income of £5,000 and over.

This week in 1968:A plan is to be drawn up to determine exactly how far Worcester will have to extend its boundaries into the county council's domain to enable the expansion of the city to a population of 130,000 by 1995. The Government has announced that it is in favour of the gradual expansion of Worcester (present population 70,230) by an influx of 35,000 Birmingham overspill between 1970 and 1995. The city council estimates that together with natural population growth, Worcester's population will reach between 120,000 and 130,000 by the end of the 25-year period. To make room for the overspill families and new industry, the city council wants to extend its boundaries up to the northern link and out to the M5 to embrace an extra 2,500 acres. At the moment, Worcester covers 6,114 acres.This week in 1978:A full scale river rescue operation was launched on Monday at Worcester Bridge to save five boats drifting downstream from Stourport. The boats, belonging to the cruiser hire firm Cleavor Marine, slipped their moorings and were carried down the river by the high waters of the Severn. But, despite rescue attempts, two houseboats worth more than £3,500 were smashed against the bridge parapets. However, British Waterways tugs were able to save three pleasure cruise longboats, lashed together at the bow, by towing them safely away from the bridge.

* A skateboard park for Perdiswell has been approved by Worcester City Council. It will be built by Skate City Bovis on a council-owned plot, and the company will pay a rental plus a share of the annual takings. The admission charge will be 35p an hour.

This week in 1988:A choking woman patient had a pea removed from her windpipe, but then complained to Worcester Royal Infirmary that it not returned it to her. The plaintive patient said a doctor promised to send her the offending vegetable later. She told hospital chiefs she needed the pea back as her grandchildren were pestering her to see it. However, the doctor at the centre of the amusing controversy wrote to the woman saying he did not wish to send back something dried up, smelly and mouldy. Instead his imaginative settlement was to send her a photograph of the pea against a ruler so that she could see its actual size.

* Bosses at a booming Worcester fine china firm have revealed that the workforce will double in size over the next 12 months as they spearhead an overseas sales campaign. The extra 32 workers will be taken on at Albany Worcester Limited in Lowesmoor in expectation of a flood of orders from America and Europe.