Another Twist

Playwright Tim Luscombe tells Duncan Hall about the challenges of bringing Rye novelist Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw to the stage

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.

Textile Matters

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

Stop Dieting, Start Listening

By now the New Year’s diet has well and truly worn off. But from her Ditchling Common home Sarah Moore is offering a psychological alternative.

Supersonic Past

It was 50 years ago this month that Concorde was revealed to the world at the Paris Air Show. As senior photographer for British Airways Lewes’ Bob Tracy saw its legend grow.

Drawn From Nature

A new exhibition at Standen House looks at how its Morris & Co designs were inspired by its surrounding natural environment.

Parental Guidance

Psychologist Philippa Perry on how a festival helped create her bestselling parenting book and why she needs to be in the East Sussex countryside

There's Always Hope

Sarah Ann Juckes went above and beyond when researching for her first novel by volunteering for the NSPCC. Simone Hellyer finds out how that experience helped her find hope in the darkest of subject matters.

Work Life Balance

As more people than ever are working into retirement, parttime jobs and the gig economy could be the way forward.

Virtuoso Of The Thicket

When it comes to birdsong, the nightingale is a world famous virtuoso with a voice so powerful, melodious and varied that few other species can match it.

Shooting Seaford

As William Nicholson’s breakthrough play is revived in Chichester, he explains how his former hometown influenced his new film

The Spiky Truth

The nation’s favourite animal is in decline, but there’s plenty you can do to help keep hedgehogs thriving

All's Well

Simone Hellyer tries out one of Park House Hotel and Spa’s new wellness treatments on an overnight stay

Animal Hero

Veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick on life, loves and becoming TV’s favourite supervet

Burning Up The Dancefloor

Horsham-based wedding DJ Brian Mole is celebrating after winning big at the 2019 Wedding Industry Awards.

Backyard Beetlemania

Why I’m campaigning to make Sussex the official rose chafer capital of England.

Casting A New Light

Premier Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones has inspired contemporary artists in an unusual summer exhibition.

Great Dame

Academy Award nominee, beloved comedienne, and organic cattle herder:Dame Julie Walters is certainly a woman of many talents both on and off the screen

What's In A Name?

Not everything is what it seems in the West Sussex town of Petworthas Clive Agran discovers

Living For The Now

This year childrens hospice Chestnut Tree House celebratesits 15th birthday. Simone Hellyer takes a tour round the house and meets some of its longest-serving staff

The Way Of The Woods

Having served in the military and worked as a bodyguard, Phil Brooke was inspired to launch a new career by aglobetrotting bushcraft trip as Harry Maddock discovers

Safety In Numbers?

GOING WILD with Charlotte Owen of the Sussex Wildlife Trust

A Step In The Right Direction

Some 145,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with Parkinsons disease every year, with this number setto double before 2040 but we are fighting back

Arun Del

ONE OF WEST SUSSEX’S MOST HISTORIC TOWNS, ARUNDEL IS HOME TO ANTIQUES, GREAT VIEWS – AND A FAIRYTALE CASTLE