In today' Gazette: A woman arrested in connection iwth her husband's death has been found dead at her home.

Hazel Nutt's body was found at her home in Colchester - three weeks after her husband Christopher died. 

Mrs Nutt, 39, and her neighbour Terry Hurley were initally questioned on suspicion of murder. They were both released without charge.

* A day tripper has been ahiled a hero after saving a woman from the sea.

Former soldier Scott Mason, 42, was visiting a friend in Clacton and dived into the water to help a woman who was in trouble.

* A husband and wife have been sentenced for their part in a £2.3 million VAT fraud.

Simon Hicks, 43, and Maxine Hicks, 45, of Harborough Hall Lane, Messing, and 15 co-conspirators reclaimed VAT on sales and exports which did not exist.

* A main Colchester road was shut as the air ambulance landed to help an elderly man who had crashed into a garden wall.

The driver is believed to have become ill at the wheel of his car and he went into a wall in Plume Avenue.

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