Two recent news items have highlighted just how useful our Quicksearch facility for Essential Articles and Fact File can be. Assisted suicide is in the news with the deaths in Zurich of Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan. Typing assisted suicide into Quicksearch produces eight articles on the issue - including both personal accounts and strong arguments for and against. The government is reviewing care of an increasingly elderly population. Using Old Age as your search term produces 10 articles and 8 sets of statistics. These cover everything from Britain's ageing population compared to the EU average through to how to live to be 150 and most points in between.