Average speed cameras are on the cards for the A12.

The Highways Agency proposal has been revealed following a day of misery for motorists on the busy road, where there were five accidents in eight hours yesterday.

Also in Friday's Gazette:

  • A woman has told the murder trial of Clacton's Oliver Smith-Daye she saw her former partner and her mother's boyfriend attacking another man.
  • Villagers will get a chance next month to look at plans to build as many as 140 homes in Tiptree to help fund Colchester United's controversial new training ground.
  • Holiday-makers and environment chiefs have given Brightlingsea beach teh thumbs-up, despite it failing an ecoli test.
  • Read rocker and author Martin Newell's thoughts on Firstsite, how only a "myopic snob" would think The Only Way is Essex is bad for the county, and whether Wivenhoe folk see themselves as a different breed to Colchester residents?

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