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Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

Outdoor adventurer Pete Woodward takes advantage of Sussex’s dark skies to take on a night-time challenge

It's Not Crackers

With a couple of subtle changes, your festive dinner can still be good for you, so no need for an emergency gym visit

Magic In The Air

Hove’s Keris Lea is finishing the biggest 12 months of her career by penning a new panto version of Jack and the Beanstalk

Winging It

Comedian Cariad Lloyd will be returning to Brighton with improvised comedy Austentatious. She speaks to Simone Hellyer about becoming a comedian at the University of Sussex as well as her love of improvisation and podcasts

Best Seat In The House

Cuckfield’s Ockenden Manor offers a spectacular summer panorama while you eat, says Laura Paton

A Recipe For Happiness

When Match of the Day presenter Jimmy Hill succumbed to dementia, his wife Bryony determined not to fade with him. She reflects on the healing power of growing and cooking your own.

Life In The Fast Lane?

Last time Clive Agran went to Bexhill it was for a speed awareness course. But he wasn’t the first to race at high speed around the town.

Making Time

When retirement beckoned, Horsham’s Bob Bennett didn’t want to stop work entirely. A family trip to New York provided the inspiration for his business Time Squares.

Dancing Queen

Goring girl Francesca Hayward, 24, had her first role in a ballet school recital at Worthing Pavilion Theatre. Now she is principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. It has been an intense journey.

Curtain Up

Chichester Festival Theatre’s new directors are about to unleash their first full season. DUNCAN HALL finds out more.

Finding Brighton's Billy Elliot

Sport and dance helped Sir Rod Aldridge overcome early academic disappointment – and now his foundation has turned his former Portslade school around. DUNCAN HALL finds out how he wants to use both to help the city’s young people.

Bugging Out

THE common cockchafer, or May bug, is on the wing from late April through to July.

Far From Holmes

Brighton author and psychologist Mick Finlay has written a book about Sherlock Holmes’ rival – a working class detective called Arrowood. Even before publication it was slated for television adaptation, with Kathy Burke signed up as executive producer. JENNY MARK-BELL finds out more.

New Ways Of Seeing

A pair of Sussex creatives are among the hundreds of cutting edge artists contributing to Brighton Festival. DUNCAN HALL finds out about two city premieres.

New Homes In Handcross

Crest Nicholson to launch new development at Hoadlands Grange in Handcross

Smugglers' Rest

Contraband goods provided a valuable source rest of income for Rottingdean in years past, and a number of illustrious figures have made it their home since then

A Royal Romantic

The story of Prince Augustus, the only previous Duke of Sussex, is a tale of family breakdown, two illegal weddings and a heartbroken bookish and sensitive boy

Den Of Mischief

Summer is now in full swing and this year’s fox cubs are really finding their feet.

Safe In The Sun

Leading dermatologist Dr Tamara Griffiths offers her advice on making the most of the sunshine this summer

John Moore Jewellery

The award-winning Brighton-based jewellery designer who is breaking new ground by experimenting with materials and movement

Feast Food

Sarah Raven is not only an inspirational cook and gardener, she was also once a doctor – knowledge that informs her new healthy eating cookbook. From her idyllic farmhouse in the Sussex Weald, she talks to ANGELA WINTLE about her passion for “good, good food”

Textile Matters

A childhood in turkey has inspired a rotherfield textile artist’s colourful and intricate designs. 

Country Living With Convenience

Step into your new family home in charming Haywards Heath

The Beautiful Ones

In the early 1990s Suede frontman Brett Anderson was one of the best known and most distinctive faces in the charts. But as his newly published memoirs reveal, his foppish image gave little clue to his impoverished and eccentric beginnings in Mid Sussex – a world far removed from rock-star success

Subtle Beauty

There is an understated beauty to the speckled wood butterfly, whose wings are patterned to perfectly mimic the gentle dance of dappled sunlight on the woodland floor.

Shady Lady

It is one of the UK’s most deadly plants, with a whole host of horrific effects, but what is so special about deadly nightshade?

Behind The Scenes

Watching her father, the renowned actor Bob Hoskins, lose his memory while battling Parkinson’s drove Rosa Hoskins to write a loving memoir to preserve his memory. She tells ANGELA WINTLE about their close but complex relationship and her idyllic childhood summers in Sussex.

Let's Move To Seaford

Last year Seaford was one of the UK’s top five towns for house price growth. DUNCAN HALL finds out why.

Colour Blind

Lydia Tewkesbury asks if ‘photogenic’ is too high on our perfect pet checklist – and why we shouldn’t talk about black cats just at Halloween

Pineapple Express

All rise for the majestic pineapple, which has apparently just overtaken the avocado as our nation’s favourite fruit.