It was a story that unfolded in two very different venues. Half of it took place in a Cornish seaside resort - an old-fashioned media footrace for a decent story. But the other half was played out in cyberspace as virtual reporters picked their way through imagined streets and clubs and homes to try to gather how an indiscretion there had ...

It was a story that unfolded in two very different venues. Half of it took place on the streets of a drizzly seaside resort in Cornwall - a good old-fashioned media footrace for a decent tale. But the other half was played out in cyberspace as virtual reporters picked their way through imagined streets, clubs and homes to try to get ...

For its many devotees, the Second Life virtual world is a place where the everyday constraints of normal life drop away and vivid fantasies can be played out. But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are divorcing after the wife discovered her real-life husband's online alter-ego, a goatee-bearded, medallion-wearing hombre called Dave ...