In today's Gazette: Morrisons look set to come to Colchester.

Plans for a 2,378 sq metre supermarket at the Cowdray Centre have been unveiled.

* Hundreds said goodbye to loving, caring schoolgirl Shannon Smith who died aged 15.

Family and friends accompanied her white coffin, on a carriage pulled by two black horses, on the journey from her Stanway home.

* Aspiring footballers have been left heartbroken by the collapse of the Colchester United Community Sports Trust.

Parents said they arrived at coaching sessions to find them cancelled as the charity closed on Monday with the loss of 38 jobs.

* A primary school has defended paying caretaker £53,000 a year.

Simon Wootton's pay packet at Ravenscroft Primary School in Clacton, is more than double the starting salary of a teacher.

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