A DYSLEXIC cleaner at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester who left school without any qualifications is flying through her studies 20 years later.

PEOPLE who are practising complementary therapies have a forum in Chichester for meeting and exchanging ideas.

ARTS editor Phil Hewitt is now counting down to the hours to the Tokyo Marathon...

BUPA care homes across West Sussex are teaming up with the Tetley Tea Folk and are calling on members of their communities to create a special Communi-tea Cosy for Gaffer.

We much enjoyed this 2.5-mile (4kms) walk last week across National Trust heathland with fine views south to the Downs.

Sian Lloyd wafted her left hand seductively over the weather map and a swathe of middle Britain, from Anglesey to The Wash, was winsomely caressed.

Simple ideas are often the best. And I think I may have come up with one which is bordering on genius.

POLICE had to taser a man after he escaped from mental health workers who were attempting to detain him in Chichester.

What’s in a name? Well if you are trying to decide what on Earth you should call a child you have never even met, then the answer is a lot.

MEMBERS of the Chichester branch of the Royal Naval Association gathered for a special service at Chichester Cathedral this month to bless its new standard.

SPORTS clubs and groups across the West Sussex area can apply for a chunk of millions of pounds.

When I was asked to write a weekly walk for this newspaper six years ago, I thought ‘Oh super, I’ve walked the country from end to end and loved every minute and every metre – and hopefully everybody else will enjoy this superb landscape, too’.

It’s easy to make a list – from Belloc to Kipling, from Blake to Galsworthy – of great writers with Sussex associations.

Our campaign to help a six-year-old boy walk for the first time has got off to a fantastic start, thanks to the generosity of the Chichester Lions Club.

A national newspaper has just launched a campaign for safer cycling in London following the serious injury of one of its staff members. The campaign makes it clear the paper believes the fault lies at the wheel of the motorist, but I’m not sure that’s entirely true.

A NEW film has been released showing how West Sussex County Council and its partners are helping residents prepare for the later stages of their lives.

It was a strange moment. I experienced a time-warp. I was on the banks of the River Test in Hampshire having been given a day’s fly-fishing for grayling. These are colourful salmonids, with a ‘coarse’ breeding season, with all the mystique of trout for devotees of the sport.

I’ve been 1,000 miles across Sussex on these walks and am still finding unexplored places. I have been all around Lavington Stud Farm but never through the middle.

IT IS not just the Queen who will be getting out the bunting and celebrating the Diamond Jubilee this year.