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Right of passage

Beverley Dowdell was just 27 when she came to Southampton from Jamaica. To celebrate Black History Month, she tells her story

Dog days are over

We Brits love dogs. So why have people bought puppies in lockdown that they are already starting to abandon?

BATHE IN STYLE

Bathrooms should be the best possible balance of form and function, creating a space that delivers what you need with what you love

Custodians of the SOIL

The Baring family share how they are futureproofing their estate to make it financially and ecologically sustainable

THE FUN GUY

When it comes to unearthing fascinating fungi in the New Forest, former chef Richard Sawden is the go-to expert

Wedded serendipity

Despite their original plans being kiboshed by Covid-19, Jo and Bruce enjoyed the intimate wedding ceremony most couples truly dream of

AUTUMN'S mellow MAGIC

As the National Trust celebrates its 125th anniversary, enjoy nature’s crescendo in the grounds of two of its Hampshire properties

TOWN AND COUNTRY: Godalming & Hascombe

On the banks of the River Wey, Godalming is a watercolour pretty town surrounded by pristine countryside and in-demand rural villages, such as Hascombe

Lose yourself in nature

Eager to hit the reset button, Rebecca Younger went for a socially distanced staycation at Lucknam Park in Wiltshire

Your intimate big day

With everyone having to host smaller nuptials, wedding planner Susie Evans shares how to bring glamour to your socially distanced day

Word perfect

Woking-born Susie Dent has been in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner for more than 20 years. Here she shares her love affair with words and her latest book offering readers a daily dose of etymology for the soul

‘A perfect county'

As Sir Kenneth Branagh returns to the big screen this month playing Agatha Christie’s Poirot, he shares why he loves living in Surrey

Tranquil reflections

Enjoy a peaceful stroll amongst autumn’s burnished hues to revive the spirit and ponder on the beauty of nature

Happy valley

Chris Howard uncovers a rare habitat on the Surrey borders

No place like home

Loseley Park may welcome 6,000 to 8,000 members of the public each year but first it is home to the next generation of the More-Molyneux family

EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH

Raphael: Prince Albert’s Passion at The Lightbox in Woking celebrates 500 years since the death of the celebrated Italian Renaissance artist

GHOSTS - CAUGHT ON CAMERA

Fact merges with fiction at West Horsley Place, aka ‘Button House’, home to the residents of BBC One’s popular sitcom Ghosts

Blazing a trail

Marking October’s Black History Month, Surrey History Centre looks at the county’s most important black figures

RECIPES for SUCCESS

From Eliza Acton to Elizabeth David, some of the UK’s most influential food heroes have made their home in Sussex

Release the bats

A WORD ABOUT WILDLIFE

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Many of us are choosing to look closer to home for our holidays. Sussex boasts an array of accommodation to enjoy

Pattern and print

To mark the centenary of his birth, Eastbourne printmaker Robert Tavener is being celebrated with a hometown exhibition

A-Z of Sussex produce

Here in Sussex we have the good fortune to live in a prolific food-producing county. In celebration of British Food Fortnight from 19 September-4 October, we hail some of our finest local delicacies

Gathering in the harvest

The priest, author and ecological thinker on his deep love for the countryside

Landscape of a lıfe

West Sussex-based John Hitchens has been making art his entire life. Far from scaling back in his 80th year he has just staged a major retrospective exhibition

A President at the Royal Pavilion

In 1877, Ulysses S Grant became the first former American president to visit Britain. His tour included three days in Brighton, where his speech foreshadowed the notion of the ‘special relationship’

Lovely warts

Award-winning sculptor Martin Jennings chats about the art and – with a nod to the toppling of statues – the pitfalls of immortalising the great and the good

The village that time forgot

Ben Lerwill delves into the strange story of the ‘lost’ Oxfordshire hamlet of Widford

We are what we eat

Farmer Clifford Freeman is a passionate advocate of local produce. He tells Katie Jarvis why we should find out everything we possibly can about our food

Love And Death In The Long Grass

A lifelong arachnophobe, I’ve had my head turned by this brightly patterned arachnid