? Former Regiment Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Eddie Lamb who took action into his own hands and mounted Operation Clean-Up after reading about a wall near Horseshoe Bay defaced with graffiti slogans such as "Southside Mafia" and "Cop Killers".

? Ian Leaming who had been working at the nearby KFC restaurant, on a 74-year-old lucky to escape uninjured after his car plunged over a six-foot drop in Par-la-Ville car park in Hamilton ? before toppling over a wall and landing on its side in the road.

? Vitaly Bonderenko, of the Russian round-the-world sailing family the Bondarenkosas they prepared to leave Bermuda after a seven-month stay on the Island awaiting legal permission to live in their adopted home of Nova Scotia.

? British Airways cabin crew leader Jeffrey Palmer on his globetrotting, dream job that has allowed him rub shoulders with rock royalty.

? Club manager Bryan J. Mewett on the chilly conditions that came close to the coldest temperature ever seen on the Island. A reading of 48.9 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on January 27, compared with an all-time low of 44 degrees in 1950. Hail came down so heavily on the golf course at the Mid Ocean Club it looked like the putting green was littered with icy golf balls.