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Friday, 28 May, 2004, 12:53 GMT 13:53 UK

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Penny and Richard met at last year's blind date ball

'I didn't believe in love at first sight - but I do now'
Last Valentine's Day, Richard Jones went to a blind date ball. He never thought he'd meet his ideal woman - until he saw Penny McCarthy.

'My job? I play poker online'
'My holidays in the axis of evil'
'I wanted to lose weight - and ended up four stone 10 oz'
'I'm an ex-marine recruiting human shields'
'There's a near miss every trip'
'Why I turned Pepys' diary into a weblog'
'Why I give up my Christmas'
Days of toxic darkness

AGAINST THE ODDS

Seven years in the footsteps of early man
Last May a British couple set off on an epic walk across four continents. After a year's break for injuries, they are about to resume their trek.

'My daughter died on her gap year trip. Now my son's going.'
'I tracked Iraq's biological weapons'
'Brixton's gone to pot'
'I quit London to fight for my dad in India'
Fighting flames in 1977
How we clear landmines
Three bombs, three times lucky
'Borstal changed my life'
'I survived the trenches - and would never go back'
'I helped raise the Kursk'
'I don't know when I'll see Cameron again'
Giving voice to freedom
'I battled the Sydney bushfires'
Providing 'emotional first aid'
'I loved a crack addict'
Crash landing with Harold

ACROSS A DIVIDE

The modern village bobby
Fighting rural crime is an issue highlighted by countryside campaigners. In Derbyshire, a retired inspector is trying out a mobile police station.

'At 78 I still like sex'
'The HIV orphan under our wing'
'I'm a trendy Tory - and I don't fit in'
Playing football in a headscarf
'Back to the Falklands to grieve'
'I'm Her Majesty's biker'
A bad time to be a republican?
'My days as a white man'
Looking the Brighton bomber in the eye
From JP to food writer
'No regrets as a Catholic in the RUC'
'Grandma won't be home for Christmas'
From Vietnam to Romford
'Love led me to the West Bank'
'When we met, we were illegal'
Bearing witness to the Holocaust

HI-TECH LIVES

Roger Squires, Guinness record holder for compiling crosswords

Tales from a cryptic crossworder
The world's most prolific crossword compiler has set his hardest puzzle yet - a 3D teaser for an online treasure hunt expected to take a year to crack.

'I'm searching for life on Mars'
A new home for old PCs
'I surfed the 1901 census - briefly'
'How I lured paedophiles online'
'I could be Stephen Hawking's new voice'
'I love Stansted just as it is'
The hacker who sent Viagra to Bill Gates
I made the net pay
Through the dot.com wringer
Still making the net pay

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

Cherie Blair has a lifestyle coach. What could one do for you?

Need a lifestyle coach?
Cherie Blair pays friend Carole Caplin for advice on fashion, fitness and well-being. What could a lifestyle coach do for you? Gina Pickersgill, of ABCoach, explains.

The real autograph man
'I stalk animals - with a camera'
'I'm chief Monster Raving Loony, seriously '
Honeymoon on a demo
'I make crop circles'
Confessions of a street fundraiser
'I hunt dinosaurs'
'I can see sounds'
'UFOs? I've seen 180'
'I'm Greek and, yes, I spot planes'
Desert run in a rhino suit
'My blind date for charity'
'My Friends Reunited reunion'
Confessions of a World Cup widow
'The days of Eddie the Eagle are gone'
'I was a Playboy Bunny'
Daring to bare all
Sultan of swingometers
The swans' census-taker
The chicken rescuer
Big Ben's safe pair of hands
One-in-500,000 Christmas

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

'I invented Judge Dredd'
To mark the 25th anniversary of the comic 2000AD, writer John Wagner recalls how he came up with its ruthless lawman.

Lording it as an orc
'Too short for Sundance'
Turning sci-fi into fact
The day I met Douglas Adams
The 'History Man' on Sir Malcolm Bradbury
What a difference a Tate makes
The British taste for seaside sauce
Writing for the box
Sounds like screen spirit
Who wants to be a boy dancer?

DEVASTATING DISASTERS

Long watch over WTC dead
Young women are - unusually - taking part in a Jewish ritual to watch over the WTC dead. Here, two students reflect on their nights at the morgue.

Letter for a missing friend
One year on: It shouldn't happen to a vet
'My airfield is a mass grave'
A deadly false alarm
'Watching my sheep burn was just devastating'
Flooded for 40 days and 40 nights

HEALTH AND SAFETY

What it's like to help someone die
A Dutch doctor reflects on a patient who asked him to end her life.

Training the refugee doctors
'Why I hid my rape'
'Shipman killed my mum'
'I'm the new face of (·)(·)feeding'
Iris, Alzheimer's and us
'Pain drove me to pot'
The drug addict's 'friend'
'Why I was hounded out of hospital'
Beaten in the line of duty
Tackling a bug's life
'My kids have pester power'
Call centre confidential
'Let us grow the plants'

My voice, your e-mail

I found bio-weapons

My time as an orc

Pepys' diary as weblog

Human shields
'I'm recruiting volunteers to go to Iraq'

Good samaritan
'The HIV orphan we've taken under our wing'

Pitch black
'The toxic smog of 1952 hit us like a wall'

Blue taboo
'I am a trendy Tory - and I do not fit in'