A QUAD biker was left fighting for his life in hospital after smashing into a brick wall.

The man, 29, suffered massive head injuries near Boxted Mill.

His family were last night at his bedside at Colchester General Hospital.

Also in Monday's Gazette:

  • Six out of ten full-time ambulance crews in north Essex will be cut, it has been revealed.
  • A family of five have been left homeless after an inferno engulfed their kitchen. Linda Nicholls, 48, and her three young children had to battle through thick smoke to escape the blaze at their home in Page Road, Clacton.
  • A vigilante thug could be jailed for ransacking the bungalow of a man with learning difficulties.

All this and much more in Monday's Gazette - only 43p. There's always much more in the newspaper than online.