In today's Gazette: Four men are lucky to be alive after their speedboat capsized.
They spent 15 minutes in the water after their boat started to sink 400 metres from the shore near Jaywick.
* Tesco has been given the green light to open its eighth store in Colchester.
The shop, in Magdalen Street, will share the site with St Helena Hospice, which closed its charity shop last year.
* A motorcyclist was flown to hospital after he crashed on the A12.
The man, 59, broke his leg and arm and suffering serious pelvis and hip injuries on the London-bound carriageway near Colchester United's Weston Homes Community Stadium.
* Firefighters have paid tribute to long-serving colleague Martin Sibley who was found dead.
For more on this and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.
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