In today's Gazette: A road in Colchester has seen 44 crimes in a year with one in three homes burgled.
Spruce Avenue in Greenstead has been repeatedly targeted but police say they are taking action against crooks.
* A rescue package has been drawn up to save football coaching sessions scrapped when Colchester United Community Sports Trust folded.
* Colchester Rugby Club could move to a new sport and leisure park.
Talks have been held with Colchester Council about moving to a site near the community stadium - but residents living nearby fear it will lead to the current ground being given up to housing.
* A man has been barred from every pub in Essex and Suffolk.#
David Carter, 36, of Richard Avenue, Wivenhoe, has been given an Asbo banning him from licensed premises for five years.
For more on these and other great stories, see today's Gazette. There is always more in the paper than there is online.
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