An analysis of a portrait on display at Uppark in West Sussex, one of a matching pair commissioned during Sir Matthew Featherstonehaugh’s Grand Tour

First line of defence

Andrew Comben is chief executive of Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival, which he joined in 2008 from the Wigmore Hall

Local paper condemnation and a threatened council injunction couldn’t stop Worthing’s first underground rock festival

Novelist Karen Swan lives on the edge of Ashdown Forest. She is a Sunday Times best-selling author who has sold over a million books.

Lewes artist Keith A Pettit’s latest landmark project draws on the history and landscape of East Sussex

Brighton’s music scene attracts audiences from all over the country. Now the city’s small venues and promoters are fighting to survive.

Dame Vera Lynn CH. DBE. LLD. MMus, who lived in Ditchling passed away on 18 June surrounded by her close family, at the age of 103.

How little Daisy Ashford of Lewes penned a comic classic that went on to be adapted for stage and screen

Partridge Green resident Mary Hember has made her first foray into publishing at the age of 86.

We speak to the Brighton comic on comedy in the age of coronavirus, home-schooling and being the ‘other mother’

Hove-based Elliott Hasler is an aspiring film director with his own production company. His current project is Vindication Swim, about the life of Brighton swimmer Mercedes Gleitze, the first woman to cross the Channel.

With Unwanted Etchingham writer Suz Evasdaughter explores her traumatic childhood in Yorkshire, while offering up a story of hope and overcoming the odds, finds Simone Hellyer

Brighton photographer JJ Waller has responded to the historic lockdown conditions in the UK by photographing people social distancing at home.

Hove author Holly Smale aims to encourage young girls to shatter the illusion of perfection with the latest instalment in her Valentines series, finds Simone Hellyer

Richard Durrant is a leading recitalist who is currently recording an album for release later this year

Brighton photographer JJ Waller, a former comedy performer, brings a sense of humour to his latest series of images picturing the county from east to west.

Tracey Kavanagh’s gifted black labradors were talent-spotted at an agility competition, for key acting roles in Netflix behemoth The Crown.

For those of us confined to our homes, what better way to escape reality than in the pages of a book? Here we present a comprehensive Sussex reading list, with selections from novelists Peter James, Simon Brett and Lynne Truss

Jazz singer Joe Stilgoe lives in Hove with his wife and two daughters. During the lockdowm he’s streaming daily concerts live from his shed