In today's Gazette: Police burst into a flat and found a man kneeling next to the lifeless body of his mother, a court heard.

Carol Cooper, 65, of Clacton, had been smother with a pillow and prosecutors allege her son, Peter Dickson murdered her. Dickson admits manslaughter but denies murder.

* A teenager battling cancer has become a charity's top fundraiser.

Tom Bowdidge, 19, from West Bergholt, is close to breaking the £100,000 barrier for the Teenager Cancer Trust.

*The parents of a man who has been missing for almost a year believe he is still alive.

Julie and Robert Stammers yesterday appealed for their son Anthony to let someone know he is safe.

Anthony, 28, of Mile End Road, Colchester, has not been seen since May 27 last year.

* Mourners packed into a church to remember an aspiring rapper who was murdered.

About 150 people attended a memorial service for Thomas Brittain, 27.

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