In today's Gazette: Bargain Booze Shame (From Essex County Standard)

In today's Gazette: Bargain Booze Shame

8:23am Wednesday 10th October 2012 in News

In today's Gazette: Cut price booze offers at clubs and pubs in Colchester have been criticised by licensing bosses.

The deals, including one pub offering hots of absinthe for £1.95, have been described as irresponsible.

* A routine eye check unearthed a shock diagnosis for Joanne Dixon - a potentially fatal cancerous tumour.

Quick treatment saved Joanne's sight in her right eye and the tumour has now been shrunk with radiotherapy.

* Two fires and a fight broke out in one night in a "house of horrors" in Wivenhoe. Police and firefighters were called to a suspected arson and report of a brawl at the notorious Gothic House in High Street.

* A family have been left homeless after a car crashed into their semi-detached home in Brantham.

For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.