IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: A KISS OF COURAGE (From Essex County Standard)
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IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: A KISS OF COURAGE
8:15am Thursday 6th September 2012 in News
IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: A WOMAN with terminal cancer has been the first to marry in a hospital's chapel.
Toni Hunn, 42, who married fiancee Mark Murphy at Essex County Hospital, said: "Everyone from the doctors down to the porters has been amazing."
* Colchester MP Sir Bob Russell is not amused about a spoof Twitter account pretending to be him.
In the tweets, he apparently talks about events such as going out for curries with fellow Essex MPs - but it is all the work of a prankster.
* The Duke of Kent is visiting Colchester to officially open two new centre.
The Duke, who is the Queen's cousin, will open the Creffield Medical Centre and Wivenhoe House hotel.
* A teenager has been jailed for more than two years for his part in the London riots. Demar Floyd, of Greenfield Houses, Birch, was the ringleader of a gang which smashed its way into shops and stole from them.
FOR MORE ON THESE AND OTHER GREAT STORIES, SEE TODAY'S GAZETTE. THERE IS ALWAYS MORE IN THE PAPER THAN THERE IS ONLINE.