WHAT I AM CALLED: Having the name Richard Tracey, it was always inevitable that I would be called Dick Tracey.

MY AGE: I will admit to breaking the half century and a little more.

WHAT I DO: I work for the NHS ambulance service as a paramedic and I manage our volunteer community responders. We are looking for more if anyone would like to help.

WHERE I LIVE: I have lived in beautiful West Oxfordshire all my life. Currently, I live just outside Witney with my wife Heather and Duke my German Shepherd.

WHO I LOVE: This would be a long list but my special list would be Heather my wife, son James and grandchildren Max and Lucus.

MY HAPPIEST YEAR: Every year brings something that makes that year a happy year, to single one out would be difficult.

MY DARKEST MOMENT: Last year while at work, I received a telephone call from a colleague to say my son had been involved in a motorcycle accident just outside Carterton. My heart sank, but all ended well and he has fully recovered.

MY PROUDEST BOAST: In 1996 I was asked by the chief executive of Oxfordshire Ambulance Service to represent the ambulance service at the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Day. On the day it was an early start, I had to practise marching with the police and fire representatives.

When we marched out with the wreaths, there was enormous applause from the public which made the hair on my neck stand up.

MY BIGGEST REGRET: I have just conquered my fear of heights with the help of hypnosis.

I wish I had done it when I was younger because it has been so restrictive.

MY WORST WEAKNESS: Fruit and nut chocolate

A LESSON LEARNED: A smile or joke will help most situations

MY DULLEST JOB: I once helped a friend who had a window cleaning company when someone phoned in sick, I spent almost an entire week steadying the bottom of a ladder and getting covered in suds.

MY GREATEST EMBARRASSMENT: At a time when friends from London were staying we went for a walk to show off the local countryside and the lane we were walking had litter all the way along it.

MY LIFE-LONG HERO: A lady called Anita, after qualifying as a nurse she moved to India and has devoted much of her adult life to helping orphaned and homeless children.

MY OLDEST FRIEND: Pete Jones. I met Pete when at school, he joined the police service and now lives in London so I don’t get to see him as often as I would like.

He is a natural comedian and has the ability to make everyone laugh.

THE PERSON I KNOW WITH THE WIDEST SMILE: A chap in my department called Dave England.

He must get jaw ache every day from laughing so much.