IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: ALASTAIR BECOMES CAPTAIN COOK (From Essex County Standard)
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IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: ALASTAIR BECOMES CAPTAIN COOK
7:59am Thursday 30th August 2012 in News
IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: Essex's Alastair Cook has landed the top job in English cricket.
The former Great Totham schoolboy has been named captain of the Test side after Andrew Strauss's surprise retirement.
* Pensioner Bruce Wharton has been landed with a bill - for 10p.
Bruce, 87, has to pay a 5p a week communal water charge to Colchester Borough Homes which is not covered by housing benefits and has been sent a fortnightly bill for 10p.
* Up to 30 new jobs could be created at a new out-of-town store. B and M retail wants to open a home store at teh Tollgate Centre in Stanway.
* Three people convicted of running a brothel in Colchester have been ordered to carry out unpaid community work.
FOR MORE ON THESE AND OTHER GREAT STORIES, SEE TODAY'S GAZETTE. THERE IS ALWAYS MORE IN THE PAPER THAN THERE IS ONLINE.
