In today's Gazette: A gang robbed a man on Colchester's Greenstead estate injuring him with a knife.

The victim, aged 20, suffered injuries to his face and hands as he tried to fight off the attackers.

* The cells at Colchester's former magistrates courts are set to turned into a prison-themed restaurant.

* A woman has been jailed for threatening her former partner with a knife.

Julie Lofts, of Mountbatten Drive, Colchester, threatened to kill Matthew Mason and was jailed for two years.

* A woman is having to pay £1,352 a year in bedroom tax - because there is not a smaller home available.

Rose Ketley, 58, is losing the use of her legs and left arm but said she has been told there is not a suitable property for her with her disability.

For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.