IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: JAY WAS MY HERO (From Essex County Standard)
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IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: JAY WAS MY HERO
8:04am Tuesday 11th September 2012 in News
IN TODAY'S GAZETTE: THE family of murdered schoolboy Jay Whiston have paid tribute to him.
Jay's father Stafford described the 17-year-old as his hero and said he was clever and gifted and with his whole life ahead of him.
* Colchester MP Sir Bob Russell will not face action even though a Parliamentary inquiry found he breached expenses rules for six years.
Sir Bob unwittingly breached the rules by holding shares in a company which owned Magdalen Hall which was sub-let for his constituency office. MPs on the Commons' standards committee said he made no financial gain.
* Farmer Howard Dennis has told how he was confronted with a wall of fire as the blaze ripped across 123 acres of his fields.
* A brave mum fought off a man who tried to rob her at knifepoint in Colchester's Castle Park.
FOR MORE ON THESE AND OTHER GREAT STORIES, SEE TODAY'S GAZETTE. THERE IS ALWAYS MORE IN THE PAPER THAN THERE IS ONLINE.
