This week, with SYD RAWCLIFFE, the freelance writer from Accrington, who recently won £125,000 on ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

MEMORY: Being very ill on a bus to Morecambe when I was about four. They had to stop the bus. I was dreadfully travel sick as a child, but now I can travel on boats and planes without any problem whatsoever.

SCHOOL: Lee Royd Nursery in Accrington. It's still there today.

HOLIDAY: A holiday flat in Lytham St Anne's with my family when I was about five.

HERO: When I was a child I loved Marvel Comics and my hero was Dr Strange. I loved all the Marvel heroes, but he was the best. He went into mystical worlds and fought demons.

PLACE OF MY OWN: A student flat on 77 Connaught Road in Cardiff. It was known as Sunset Strip. It was very, very cheap. It had orange fungus growing in it, but we got free gas and electricity and each of us only had to pay £10 a week. I'm still friends with the people I shared with, one was in the audience on Millionaire.

JOB: A broke pulper operator in a paper mill in Blackburn. It was a student job. It was awful, but it was money.

RECORD: Fog on the Tyne, by Lindisfarne.

CAR: A Nissan Bluebird. It was totally reliable until the windscreen wiper went in Preston when it was chucking it down and nearly led to my first near-death experience!

BIG WIN: I won a trip to Australia in a Whitbread competition. I've won about seven holidays so far. Completing and winning the cryptic crossword in the Observer magazine. It was extremely difficult and took me about three days to do it. I won a £20 book token, but it wasn't about the prize, it was the kudos of doing it.