In today's Gazette: Former department store Keddies is costing Colchester taxpayers £80,000 a year in business rates - even though it is empty.
Colchester Council bought the store in Queen's Street seven years ago but plans to use it for a hotel have stalled. However, it is still having to pay business rates while it finds a buyer.
* A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after he crashed on Balkerne Hill, Colchester.
The man was taken to hospital with serious and potentially life-threatening injuries.
* Developers have been given permission to build a supermarket in Colchester.
The land in Gosbecks Road is jointly owned by the Colchester Wine Company and Colchester Borough Homes.
* A barman was punched in the face after asking a customer to stop swearing.
Mark Biglin, 50, needed four stitches to his lip after he was attacked from behind at the Brittania pub in Meyrick Crescent, Colchester.
* Fast food chain KFC has been fined £12,000 after one of its workers was given an electric shock by a faulty air conditioning unit in Colchester High Street.
For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.
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