Last October, Marco Penge caused a sensation when he became club champion at The Dyke, one of the finest downland courses in the region. Depressingly for his rivals, Marco was only 13-years-old. But it didn’t come as a shock for members of the Devils Dyke club, as...

Christ’s Hospital School is unlike any other school in the world. It is traditional yet quirky, could reasonably be perceived as both charitable and privileged, while pupils dressed in the school uniform are treated by others with a mixture of respect, fascination or...

Chanctonbury Ring has, for many years, been a site of great archaeological and historical interest. Neolithic finds at the site include a polished flint axe, an arrowhead, some early Bronze Age pottery, late Bronze Age copper-alloy gouges and a sword-hilt fragment....

This is St Hugh’s Charterhouse, where 27 brothers live in almost total isolation from the rest of the world. The brothers, who come from 19 different countries from all over the world, have chosen to devote their lives to God. Each one of them wakes at midnight every...

There’s a small sign on a gate that leads to the ABC Animal Sanctuary which reads ‘Beware Dobermanns, Donkeys and Ducks’. The sign doubles as a title for the memoirs of the sanctuary’s owner, suggesting that – despite a host of major television and film appearances -...

Who is that walking down Billingshurst High Street? That is Paul Messis, a Billingshurst boy “stuck in a 1960s time warp”. Paul plays a form of psychedelic garage guitar rock with an authentic, jangly guitar sound. Like the Beatles then? A little, but in terms of...