Murky waters

Worries about small boys peeing in the swimming pool or your mascara running pale into insignificance when you consider that the water you are swimming through, and perhaps even swallowing, could contain bacteria, viruses and parasites.

Love at first bike

Buying a ticket from Great Western Railways is an uphill struggle, but from there on Sustrans has it sussed, and Stuart Jeffries finds a side to Devon you never see from a car window.

Staying power

At 87, Jenny Wood Allen is doing the London marathon for the 13th time this Sunday - and she only took up the sport at the age of 71. Keren Williams asks if running is the secret of eternal youth or a shortcut to the cemetery