IN TODAY'S GAZETTE:

  • The campaign to save Colchester's Roman Circus has scored a crucial victory. The Gazette-backed appeal has hit the £200,000 target needed to buy the sergeants' mess, where the circus racing gates are buried. Full report, picture and reaction in today's Gazette.
  • A relative of mass murderer Jeremy Bamber hits out the latest attempt to free him, saying he is "as guilty as hell".
  • The Marks Tey food store with tarantulas on the menu.
  • The Colchester park-and-ride debate...a traders' leader urges the council to get on with it.
  • Picture special on Lexden Lodge Kindergarten.
  • PLUS our Monday Woman section and all the weekend soccer action from Colchester and Ipswich