Sussex Style July 2014

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CONTENTS

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REGULARS 06 Editor’s letter 09 News 64 Mum on the Run 89 Comment 90 Last Word

FEATURES 12 Daniel Raven 15 Season’s events round-up 18 Interview – Tracy-Ann Oberman 22 The future of Shoreham Airport 74 A perfect weekend in Sussex 80 Spotlight on Crawley & Gatwick 86 Sussex People – Debbie Mason FOOD 27 Food News 30 BBQ special with Yotam Ottolenghi FASHION 34 Holiday fashion – City Break and Beach Babe 36 Holiday fashion – Country Escape 37 Holiday fashion – Sail Away HEALTH & BEAUTY 32 Juicing lowdown 39 Beauty news 40 Beach beauty FAMILY 67 Learning about finances 70 Foreign languages HOTEL & TRAVEL 76 Julie Burchill visits Pelham House MOTORING 84 Danny Cobbs reviews the new Porsche Macan Diesel S HOMES & PROPERTY 44 Sofie Allsopp’s seaside chic 50 Colourful interiors 56 The Fabric Lady 58 Kitchens and bathrooms 4 | W WW. S U S SE X ST Y L E.CO M | J ULY 2014

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Contributors Sofie Allsopp, Julie Burchill, Danny Cobbs, Jess Denny, Sarah Drew Jones, Victoria Emerson, Laura Jandac, John Keenan, Daniel Raven, Matt Guy Wright Creative Director Lucy Newton Head of Finance Richard Judd Managing Director Seán Kane Intern Abbie Mutch Published by S and R Publishing Ltd

Welcome to the July issue of

S U S S EStyleX Summer sun, something’s

horsey days to get your hats out for, as well

begun… It’s July and we’re

as festivals and music events county-wide.

heading into holiday

The latest talent to join our extraordinary

territory, whether that’s

team is actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, who

heading for the beach or

is the subject of our interview and will be

simply looking forward

reviewing some fabulous holiday cottages

to not having to get up each day at stupid

in Camber Sands in our August issue.

o’clock for the soul-sucking school routine.

Meanwhile, Julie Burchill explores Lewes

We’re in holiday mode here at Sussex Style

with a stay at Pelham House.

a bikini and pouring a cool mojito.

If you like your cocktails a bit healthier

denizens and ahead of its proposed new plans, we explore the history of Shoreham Airport, getting in there quickly before

said bikini), we’ve got some juicing advice

filming began on the new Helen Mirren

for you this month. The craze for chucking

wartime blockbuster, Woman in Gold. And

fruit and veg into a blender and having

in our food pages this month, we could

that instead of a nice egg continues, and

hardly hit the heat without having a BBQ

we show you how to do it properly. Aside

special for you to feast your eyes on.

bikini) we’ve got pages of sizzling summer

Wherever you are, I hope you get to enjoy the sunshine. Happy holidays!

fashions, whether you’re having a city break or heading for Copacabana beach.

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he Sussex House Party is a brand new retreat and party site in the

middle of the East Sussex countryside.

Its eight acres of field and woodland, bell tent village and ‘big green bus’ have already made it the destination for wilderness weddings, arty parties, nature kids’ camps and some serious glamping. Now hostess Gilly Smith, writer and journalism lecturer, is planning her own fantasy retreats offering writing workshops, reading and plenty of good food and company.

The August mid-week break is a yoga retreat, featuring meditative dreamwriting and cowboy cooking in the evenings. There’s accommodation in the house, but it’s the bell tent village and

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5th – 6th August,

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RAISE A GLASS FOR CHARITY

How do you fancy an evening of

Last year it raised £70,000 for local

classical music and astronomy?

charities, and 11,000 pints of cask ale,

Enjoy a fabulous atmosphere as

8,000 pints of lager, 4,500 pints of

the Herschel Quartet play in one

cider and 2,000 glasses of Pimm’s

of the historic telescope domes at

were consumed. Yes, it’s the Hastings

the Observatory at Herstmonceux,

Beer and Music Festival! Run by

near Hailsham. Food will be

Hastings Round Table with the help of

served during the interval and,

more than 300 local volunteers, the event

weather permitting, viewing will take place through

incorporates three main music events and a

the historic telescopes. This will be a tremendous

Family Fun Day with face painting, bouncy castles, performing arts and

mix of science and the arts. William Herschel was

local charity stalls. Tony Lee, director of Hastings Windows and 2014

a German-born British astronomer and composer

festival chairman said, ‘The entire committee works tirelessly throughout

who composed 24 symphonies, and his most

the year to piece this event together, not only for the local community to

famous astronomical discovery using a telescope

enjoy, but to put 100% of the proceeds back via charitable donations

was Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation.

through Hastings Round Table. This would not be possible without the

5th July, 7.15pm–12midnight

very kind and generous financial support provided by local businesses.’

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LAVENDER DAYS If you love the smell of lavender then get along to one of the open days at Lordington, where Andrew ‘the lavender expert’ will be answering questions and talking about conservation on the farm. ‘Smokey Joe’, the reconditioned 1959 David Brown 990 tractor will also be on display, along with the full range of Lordington Lavender products, including a large range of plants.

9th – 13th July, 10am-4pm, www.lordingtonlavender.co.uk

Mermaid Parade Taking place in Brighton on Saturday 26th July is a parade to celebrate our seas, sea life and to raise awareness of marine conservation. Come aboard and

Medieval Mayhem

join in for the second March of the Mermaids! Mermaids, mermen, sea

Behold! An authentic and thrilling international

mammals, crustaceans, pirates,

medieval jousting tournament. With revered knights

sailors and all forms of sea life

charging in from Norway, The Netherlands, France

are invited to join in. The event is

and Poland, this is one of the largest tournaments in

inspired by and dedicated to the

Europe and the most extensive of its kind.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade in

Castle. But the most hotly contested prize of all is

Get digging ore than 50 years after its M discovery, archaeologists

New York, now in its 32nd year. It

the team award. This year’s teams are made up of old

will be back on site at Fishbourne

and will raise funds for the Marine

rivals, the Kingdoms of England and France plus two

Roman Palace this summer

Conservation Society.

new teams; the Burgundian Alliance and the Kingdom

where visitors to the Palace will

The parade heads along the

of Poland. It’s going to get medieval out there.

have the opportunity to try their

seafront to a grand ‘Fin-ale’ after-

22nd – 27th July. Tickets from £10 for children, £22 for

hand at excavation. From 22nd

party at Above Audio (4pm-8pm,

adults and £49 for families. Children under five go free.

July to 1st August visitors will

children welcome). Here they’ll be

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be given the chance to get their

handing out prizes for the best

hands dirty by taking part in an

costumes, with the crowning of

excavation of the spoil heaps.

a Queen Mermaid and King Prawn

Last year, visitors uncovered a

2014. And for those who want to

some interesting finds, including

keep partying, there’s an after-after

fragments of Roman glass, tiny

party on the beach at the Fortune

mosaic stones, animal bones

of War from 8.30pm until late.

The week-long event, held in the grounds of the mighty Arundel Castle, sees knights compete for the ultimate glory of winning the Championship of Arundel

and pieces of pottery. The event

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also supports marine conservation charities and raises awareness of marine conservation campaigns,

To take part, meet on Hove Lawns

is part of the Festival of British

(closest to the Peace Statue) at

Archaeology. There’s no need

2pm in your fishy attire, ready to

to book, just go along between

commence the march at 3pm.

11am and 4pm and join in the fun!

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An enforced smoking ban in public places was one thing, but, argues smoker Daniel Raven, why can’t smokers just be left to enjoy their – perfectly safe – e-cigarettes in peace?

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magine that you’re a child again, and you’ve been sent

with our money/time/lungs, if we’ll only make a few small

to stay with your least favourite aunt for the night. As

changes to our behaviour – but no sooner do we comply than

you eat dinner together she tells you you’ll be allowed

they shift the goalposts and demand another concession.

to stay up and play till eight o’clock, although she won’t

Cinemas, planes and operating theatres are still literally

be able to join in as she’ll be busy with her knitting. So, after

the only places where it makes any sense for smoking to be

dinner, you get out your phone or whatever and start to play

banned (everywhere else would do just fine with a good old-

a game, but she immediately complains that it’s too noisy.

fashioned separate smoking section), but the anti-smoking

You get out your dolls/’action figures’ and start to stage a little disagreement between them on the floor (being careful not to say any of the dialogue out loud), but she complains

lobby just kept on chipping away until cigarettes were as publicly invisible as vaginismus.

Fair enough, you might (in fact, you almost certainly do)

that this will be bad for the carpet. You get out a pack of

think; they bloody kill people, after all. And although we

cards and start playing patience, but she complains that she

could argue the toss about just how dangerous secondary/

can see the cards moving from the corner of her eye and it’s

passive smoking really is until the cows come down with

distracting her from her knitting... After an hour or more of

cancer, I’ll gladly concede that I don’t have any right to make

this, you might start to question whether your aunt really

other people inhale even very mildly toxic fumes against

wants you to play at all – indeed, you might even conclude

their will. I think the vast majority of my fellow smokers feel

that she resents the very idea of anyone doing anything more

the same way, which is why so few of us bothered to kick up

interesting than sodding knitting.

a stink (ha) when the bans came – and kept on coming – into

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force; the writing was very clearly on the wall, and we were happy to leave it there. But the anti-smoking lobby wasn’t.

Incredible as it may seem, some of these people are still

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The e-cigarette is the most effective driver of smoking cessation that has ever existed. It gives smokers all the ‘hit’ but none of the health risks

but there is absolutely no evidence to support this; in fact, the ASH report concludes that e-cigarette use among both adults and children is ‘confined almost entirely to those who have already tried smoking’. The other popular claim is that vaping in pubs etc. could threaten to undo all the ‘good’ work of the smoking ban by ‘renormalising’ social smoking... but isn’t that a bit like worrying that the presence of horse brasses could renormalise the oppression of the agricultural underclass?

Of course, nicotine itself is still a highly addictive substance, so there’s every chance that some people will simply end up getting as addicted to e-cigarettes as they once were to normal ones. But if we accept – as all the available evidence says we must – that the electronic version is safer, less anti-social and even much cheaper than the real thing,

losing sleep over my smoking. They tell me that of course

I can’t see how that constitutes a problem. It will still save

I’m entitled to do whatever I want with my money/time/

millions of lives!

lungs, if I’ll only stop doing it in deserted aircraft hangars,

In the light of all this, you’d have thought that anyone who

abandoned mining towns, rowing boats in the middle of vast

really wanted to stamp out smoking would be welcoming

lakes and my own bloody car... And this, to me, feels a bit

this technology with open arms. The fact that so many

like the moment after the game of patience was broken up in

non-smokers haven’t is, to my mind, clinching proof of

our opening analogy – the point at which things start to look

something I’ve only hitherto suspected in all my long years

really, properly weird because the people who are trying to

of smoking and concession-giving: that there’s a certain type

change your behaviour no longer seem to have any rational

of non-smoker who actually hates smokers as much as, if

basis for doing so. A few years ago they could probably just

not more than, smoking. Seeing how little we care about our

have said, ‘Well, it’s for your own good’, and I might even have

health makes them feel just a little stupid for caring so much

believed them; it’s not actually unheard of for people to care

about theirs, and that’s what narks them off – but at least,

about each other, after all. But if that was ever really true,

in the past, they could console themselves with the thought

why do they now have such a cob on about e-cigarettes?

that we were almost certainly going to die first. The idea

The e-cigarette is, quite simply, the most effective driver

of a safe method of smoking threatens that, so inevitably

of smoking cessation that has ever existed. It gives smokers

they’ve started trying to move the goalposts again. It will be

all the ‘hit’ of a real cigarette but none of the health risks,

interesting to see if there’s anywhere left to move them to...

and poses no danger whatsoever to anyone who might be standing nearby. Even the hard-line anti-smoking group ASH now accepts this (for the full report, go to http://ash.org.uk/ files/documents/ASH_715.pdf), but many of its supporters are still refusing to: the devices have already been banned outright in Belgium, Denmark and Norway, and Wales looks set to become the first UK nation to prohibit their use in enclosed public spaces. Our government’s chief medical officer recently said that e-cigarettes were one of the three biggest ‘health challenges’ facing Britain today... but what possible grounds could she have had for this?

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SUMMER IN SUSSEX This month is when all the big summer events start to kick off.

Here’s our guide to the events you need to be seen at…

1. BRIGHTON PRIDE It’s the UK’s largest Pride Festival and the city’s most popular visitor attraction.

With an estimated 160,000 people expected to watch this year’s vibrant parade it’s a must-see event. The parade theme for 2014 is ‘The World’s A Disco’ and parade entrants will

2. CHICHESTER FESTIVAL Now one of the biggest arts festivals in the south, the Chichester Festival celebrates music, literature, art exhibitions, theatre, film and more, resulting in a broad range of events taking place over four weeks. High-profile

be celebrating the very best of music, dance and colour from around the globe as they wind their way through the city to Preston Park where the Pride Festival will host 40,000 guests. Performers include X Factor winner Sam Bailey, Katy B, Blue, Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt, Republica and the original Weather Girl, Martha Wash.

2nd August www.brighton-pride.org

names include Emma Johnson with the Worthing Symphony Orchestra in Chichester Cathedral and award-winning poet Glyn Maxwell at the Poetry & Jazz Café. There will also be appearances from TV and stage star James Bolam, folk star Eliza Carthy and Seventies’ singing star Russell Oliver Stone.

14th June – 13th July www.festivalof chichester.co.uk

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3. LOVE SUPREME Fast becoming one of the must-see live music events of the year, the Love Supreme Jazz Festival will present an array of international stars when it returns to Glynde Place this summer.

The acclaimed three-day event boasts the likes of Grammy and Golden Globe winner Jamie Cullum, first daughter of soul, Lalah Hathaway, double Brit Award nominee Laura Mvula, legendary R&B outfit Soul II Soul featuring original vocalist Caron Wheeler, Grammy awardwinning Gregory Porter and alternative hip-hop pioneers De La Soul.

4th – 6th July www.lovesupreme festival.com

4. PADDLE ROUND THE PIER The world’s biggest free beach and water sports festival arrives on beautiful Hove Lawns and features the very best in water, street and urban sports, live music, kids’ entertainment, ‘have a go’ opportunities and lots more. In recent years the event has donated over £200,000 to charity.

5th – 6th July www.paddleround thepier.com ››

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5 7. WORTHING BIRD MAN OK, so it’s maybe not the swanky ‘society’ event you might expect to see on our social events calendar but for sheer British silliness it’s hard to beat the Birdman events – and they do raise a lot of money for charity. Where else do you get to see groups of optimistic but misguided fools dress up and hurl themselves off a pier in the pursuit of, well, some sort of flight (and a £10,000 prize)? From the country that brought you Monty Python, we bring you the Worthing Birdman.

12th – 13th July www.worthingbirdman. co.uk

8. GLORIOUS GOODWOOD Summer events don’t come much more traditional and glam than Glorious Goodwood.

Often referred to as the official closing party of the summer season, the festival blends beautiful fashions, a star-studded social atmosphere and top quality sporting action.

The racecourse is awash with colour, the crowd a vibrant sea of panamas, Pimm’s and panache.

The scene is set for the worlds of fashion, high society and horseracing to come together for five enthralling days.

29th July – 2nd August www.goodwood.co.uk

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5. PETWORTH FESTIVAL This year’s programme once again features a range of performers rarely seen outside the major cities. The classical music programme includes acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge, leading violinist Tasmin Little and American pianist Garrick Ohllson.

Comedy, jazz and cabaret events include the West End hit The Only Way is Downton, jazz singer and Radio 2 regular Clare Teal and Harry Strutters

6. FROSTS LADIES DAY Part of the three-day Festival of Racing, The Frosts Ladies Day has grown in popularity each year to become a real fixture in the season’s calendar. Last year, it attracted a bigger crowd than the opening day of the festival (it’s on day two), with not only a great day of racing, but a chance to get dressed up too, with a stunning white diamond necklace from James Ross Jewellers awarded to the

Hot Rhythm Orchestra.

This year’s major event is The Petworth Plays, with highlights from plays that have been in Petworth House’s private collection since the 17th century.

16th July – 2nd August www.petworth festival.org.uk

‘Best Dressed Lady’. The Brighton Challenge Cup, meanwhile, is the racing highlight of the afternoon.

Make sure you continue to party afterwards at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton!

7th August www.brightonracecourse.co.uk

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actor’life s for me Brighton is in her bones, but acting was not in her blood, the actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman tells Emma Piper PHOTOGRAPHY BY SVEN ARNSTEIN

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t proved difficult to track down Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Brighton is in my very bones; when I come back down I can

First she was performing at the Global Summit to End

almost see my four-year-old self.’

Sexual Violence in Conflict (chaired by Angelina Jolie).

Then she was filming a new comedy series. Then she

Her father was an ardent supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion. Oberman describes him as ‘obsessed’ with the team.

was in wardrobe. Then she was in the theatre. Then she was

He took her along to her first match when she was just two –

busy looking after her young daughter. Then she was filming

a rather overwhelming experience.

again. And so it went on. Welcome to the life of Tracy-Ann

Oberman has one of those faces, and indeed one of those

Oberman, actress, writer, mother, perennial life-juggler and

voices, that is so familiar and yet hard to place unless you’re

contributor to Sussex Style.

a soap-watcher or a Dr Who aficionado. She is by her own

We finally managed to catch up one Saturday afternoon.

description a jobbing actress, and rarely out of work. You

One of my questions was to ask her what she was currently

will have seen (or heard) her in countless plays on stage and

involved with (silly me); she reeled off a list of projects that

radio, and innumerable series and episodes of this, that and

was so long it made my head spin and I had to keep asking

the other on television. As actors go she is the real deal. This

her to repeat herself.

is what she does. All the time.

Although she’s based in London, Oberman spent a large

It’s been almost 10 years since Oberman joined EastEnders’

chunk of her childhood at her grandparents’ house in Hove,

as Chrissie Watts, who ‘did’ for husband Dirty Den (with an

and she still visits the area regularly.

ornamental doorstop). She was deservedly recognised for

‘Brighton and Hove were a huge part of my childhood,’

her memorable performance on the soap with a nomination

she says. ‘We visited every weekend and I still have a strong

for best newcomer at the British Soap Awards and most

emotional attachment to the area and memories of cream

popular newcomer at the National Television Awards

teas and walks along the promenade. I feel like so much of

(even though she’d been working in the profession for

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I was a jobbing actor before I was in EastEnders, and I went back to being a jobbing actor afterwards. Eight years ago, being a celebrity was not compatible with being a serious actor

some 12 years beforehand and was hardly a newcomer by any other industry’s standards). Yet she has consciously shirked celebrity-dom, deliberately turning down roles that would have taken her more firmly down that television celebrity status route.

‘I was a jobbing actor before I was in EastEnders, and I went back to being a jobbing actor afterwards. Eight years ago, the notion of being a celebrity was not considered compatible with being a serious actor.’

However she acknowledges that times have changed, and nowadays you can be both a celebrity and still have an acting career; the likes of Angelina Jolie perhaps a case in point. At last month’s summit, where Oberman was involved in the staging of a series of monologues based on the testaments of victims of abuse and violence, she witnessed how the role of ‘celebrity’ can be used to your advantage.

‘Angelina Jolie is my complete hero,’ she says. ‘I met her very briefly. This is a woman who is passionate about the subject. She has done her research and she has used her celebrity to make things happen and open up a dialogue, exposing rape as a weapon of war, and calling for the current situation – where it is the victims rather than the perpetrators who are shamed – to be addressed.’

Maybe Oberman will reconsider her career in the light of the new role of celebrity. Or maybe not. For this is a woman who seems never to have been out of work and rarely off screen, stage or radio in a notoriously insecure profession.

In retrospect it seems ironic that her family, concerned about job security, were worried when she chose an acting career. Immigrants in the (real) East End, they were all

is a voice to be relished on radio – maybe that’s why she has performed more than 600 plays on Radio 4 (and that is not including the ones she has written for radio).

‘The voiceover brought in enough money to tide me over

engaged in the suitably secure legal profession. ‘My dad said,

the first year, and three days after that I got a job with the

“Are you sure this is what you want to do?” So I made a deal

Royal Shakespeare Company. I was there for four years and

with him that I would finish university and then go to drama

that lead to further work, and I’ve never stopped working,’

school, and if I didn’t get a job in the first year I’d do a law

she says. ‘I always felt everything had its own merit. I did

conversion course.’

regional repertory, and learned about writing comedy at

As it happened, drama school was followed by an opportunity to do a ‘voiceover’ for After Eight mints. I totally

a time when not many women were writing comedy, and that taught me so much.’

get that: her voice is tones of rich, dark chocolate with a fresh

A career highlight was working at the National Theatre.

tang of mint and a side helping of honey and night-time. Hers

Her first season was also Nicholas Hytner’s first season, and

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she remembers the feeling of being at the cutting edge of

she’s been commissioned to write another play for Radio 4,

everything. In particular she recalls working with Kenneth

the final one in a trilogy.

Branagh in David Mamet’s Edmond (it was also Branagh’s PHOTOGRAPHY: SVEN ARNSTEIN/PHOTOTSHOT

National Theatre debut) – ‘That was a real high!’

From there she moved onto EastEnders and then straight

She says she enjoys writing more and more: ‘It’s pure alchemy, to take an idea inside your head and put it on the page; to make something out of nothing.’

to Dr Who, playing opposite David Tennant. Although she

Her written work has included working with Catherine

may be best remembered by the public for those roles, she

Tate (a long-time friend since they performed together on

has done much since, including the acclaimed Friday Night

BBC2’s Big Train) on Bette and Joan and Baby Jane, a gripping

Dinner, currently enjoying another series on Channel 4.

work that chronicled the bitter struggles between Bette Davis

She has also been filming a the second series of Toast of

and Joan Crawford during the movie What Ever Happened

London, the comedy series co-written by Matt Berry from

to Baby Jane? All this and contributing to Sussex Style too

The IT Crowd and Arthur Mathews, co-creator of Father Ted.

(look out for her travel feature in our August issue).

Then she has a comedy pilot with Alan Davies lined up, and

Impressed? It’s hard not to be.

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Flying

HIGH

It has a chequered history dating back to 1910, but with new investment and planned improvements Shoreham Airport is set to soar, says John Keenan

F

or more than 100 years, Shoreham Airport has welcomed schemers and dreamers who

believe that the sky’s the limit to their ambitions. Lord Sugar is just one of the high-fliers who have used the airport, situated on the floodplain between Lancing and Shoreham. The airport is famous for its annual air show and has seen action as a location in the movie version of The Da Vinci Code, an episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories, and the Eighties BBC TV series Tenko.

Controversially, eight years ago Brighton and Hove City Council

flopped in 2008 with debts of

and Worthing Borough Council

£250m, the leasehold was sold to

sold the leasehold of the UK’s

a company called Albemarle for

oldest working airport for a cut-

a nominal £10. Albemarle held

price £8m due to mounting debts.

talks with both councils about

The freehold of the site remained

drawing up a plan for the future

in public control and when the

of the airport, which included

new leaseholder Erinaceous belly-

refurbishing the terminal

Above: Onlookers watch planes take to the sky at the opening of the Art Deco terminal building at Shoreham Aiport in 1936

building, and the municipal hangar, new flood defences, the creation of a ‘Shoreham hub’ to house environmental, technology and digital media businesses as part of the new City Deal, and improved access off the A27.

The grand talk proved to be

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHOREHAM AIRPORT 1910 Harold Piffard, an artist based in London, set up a flying strip on a piece of grazing land near the river in Shoreham. Keen aviators AV Roe, Cedric Lee and the brothers Cecil and Eric Pashley were among the first to try out the new airport.

1911 Shoreham was the starting point for the first recorded cargo flight when Horatio Barber, in his Valkyrie monoplane, flew a box of Osram light bulbs to nearby Hove.

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1925 Cecil Pashley, with his Avro 504, teamed up with the Miles brothers to form the Gnat Aero Company.

Activity on the airfield increased in the second half of the decade, with Southern Aircraft Ltd and the Southern Aero Club. Shoreham hosted many flying meetings and air shows when famous flyers such as Sir Alan Cobham visited.

1930 The municipal authorities of Brighton, Hove and Worthing formed a joint committee to establish Shoreham as the municipal airport for the three towns. Construction on the Terminal Building began in November 1934.

BUSINESS STYLE

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This is a superb opportunity to see the airport grow into a sustainable business while at the same time protecting its heritage

financial year, which,

‘Our main focus will now be

he says, will see the

on the firms that use the airside

airport in profit.

facilities. We have implemented

He says that

a number of changes to improve

investment has already

efficiency and safeguard the

been made in systems,

future of the airport. With key

software and hardware

investments planned for the

and he has plans for

main Grade II-listed terminal

improvements at the

building and the municipal

airport, which are

hangar, we plan to commence

designed to protect the

work within six months of

airport as an

contracts being signed.’ Not

asset for the local,

surprisingly, the officers at the

business and aviation

two councils are also keen to

communities.

see the new firm take off.

He also says that

Brighton and Hove’s executive

business owners at the just that, however, and in May this year, it was agreed that Brighton City Airport should take over the running of the airport.

Managing director Jonathan Candelon is bullish about future prospects, with the airport on target for 57,000 ‘movements’ this

1935 Croydon-based company Olley Air Services Ltd was appointed to manage the aerodrome.

Top: Crowds gather at the official opening Above: Mayors of Brighton, Hove and Worthing with the airport building architect, Stavers Tiltman

1936 The Art Deco terminal building was officially opened by the Mayors of Brighton, Hove and Worthing.

director for environment,

airport are keen to put the past

development and housing,

uncertainty behind them, adding,

Geoff Raw, stated recently: ‘This

‘They are very relieved and

is a superb opportunity to see

happy, particularly when you see

the airport at Shoreham grow

what is happening at Manston

into a sustainable business that

Airport in Kent, where the

creates jobs and realises the site’s

businesses were given 24 hours’

potential while at the same time

notice of its closure.

protecting its heritage.’

1939 International airline operators were removed from London (Croydon) Airport to Shoreham with the outbreak of World War II. Among the operators were Sabena, DDL, KLM and the predecessor of British Airways, Imperial Airways. Destinations served by the airlines included Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Brussels. Following the Nazi invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940, the passenger traffic to and from Shoreham stopped, and the Royal Air Force took over the airport.

The squadron was involved in the rescue of nearly 600 airmen from the Channel.

1951 Fred Miles returned, along with his brother George, to set up aircraft manufacture and development work on site.

1971 Shoreham became a municipal airport again, under the control of the three local councils, and passenger services and general aviation became the focus of attention. The Terminal Building is now a Grade II-listed building and is still used every day for business, pleasure and training. Many of the fixtures are original, including the Whispering Gallery on the first floor and the window design above the main entrance.

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HOTEL DU VIN BRIGHTON

FOR YOUR SPECIAL DAY, CHOOSE SOMEWHERE REALLY RATHER SPECIAL

Hotel du Vin Brighton is situated in the Lanes conservation area, a pebbles’ throw from the seafront.

There are two private rooms for you to choose from, Dome and Hush Heath. The Dome, as the name suggests is an impressively large and airy domed room with a stunning ‘wineglass’ chandelier centrepiece that floods with natural daylight and can accommodate up to 100 people. Ruinart is a slightly smaller room with French doors, bespoke artwork and an adjoining door to the bistro providing a truly unique space.

So big or small we have the perfect space for your special day.

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TASTE STYLE

SUSSEX FOOD FLAVOURS Bountiful summer is here, bringing with it an embarrassment of riches for the table. Strawberries take centre stage this month and we have a stunning recipe for you, as well as all the best food news from around Sussex. We also embrace glorious alfresco dining with our barbecue special.

FOOD NEWS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH:

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AquaRiva® Tequila is a double gold medal winner in the UK and voted ‘Best of the Best’ in the USA. Available in Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, on-line; DrinkUpNY, thedrinkshop.com, Amazon and in clubs and bars nationwide.

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FOOD STYLE

Food news Sussex Style’s bon viveur Sam Bilton on this month’s tastes and treats

VEG OUT

Deep down we all know we should eat less meat.

Veggienomics by Sussex food writer Nicola Graimes offers some great meat-free recipes that are quick to knock up and won’t blow your food budget. Available from www.amazon.

co.uk or www.nourishbooks.com.

We have four copies of Veggienomics to give away to our readers.

Email your name and address to samhl@sandrpublishing.co.uk with the title ‘VEGGIENOMICS’.

Time for Tea

IN SEASON: STRAWBERRIES Why do people insist on buying strawberries in February? They taste so much better when they are in season (May to August since you ask) and haven’t been crammed into lorries and bumped across Europe. These sweet scarlet berries really are nature’s candy. They don’t need to be dolled up with fancy sauces or chocolate.

Simple slice them into a bowl and gently dust with a little icing sugar and 10 minutes later they will have created their own delicious syrup. Always serve strawberries at room temperature and never straight from the fridge – it mutes their fragrant flavour. And if you’ve never been strawberry picking then this year you should really give it a go. For more strawberry recipes visit my blog www.comfortablyhungry.com

CHOCAFFINITEA, BRIGHTON 103 GLOUCESTER ROAD, BRIGHTON, BN1 4AF, 07722 589034

L

ong before the espresso took over the high street and the cafetière

Contact the Elderly is dedicated to

became ubiquitous in our homes

combating loneliness and social isolation

we used to love filter coffee. Call me

for the over-75s. The charity is looking

nostalgic but I was quite excited to see

for volunteers to either host tea parties

this method of making coffee returning

for the elderly at their home or to drive

to Brighton recently. Chocaffinitea is

guests to an event. They are also looking

a new café in the North Laine area of

for local bakeries and cake makers to

the city run by husband and wife, Paul

sponsor these events, which make a real

and Heather Smith. They believe the

difference to the lives of the elderly.

delicate filtering process is the best way

For further information on

to maximise the flavour of the single

volunteering or sponsorship please

origin beans they use. Having tried

visit www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk

their coffee I’m inclined to agree. There

or call 0800 716543

are usually three blends to choose from,

Coffee Break of the Month

which are changed every two weeks.

They also make the dreamiest dairyfree hot chocolate you’ll ever taste. www.facebook.com/chocaffinitea

WHERE’S YOUR FAVOURITE CAFE IN SUSSEX? LET ME KNOW VIA TWITTER @SJFBILTON

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FOOD STYLE

Rhubarb, Strawberry & Elderflower Cobbler

Ingredients

• 200g rhubarb, cut into 1cm slices • 25g granulated sugar • 225g strawberries, hulled and cut in half or quartered if large

• 2 tbsp elderflower cordial • 150g self-raising flour • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda • pinch of salt • 7 5g unsalted butter, cubed • 25g caster sugar • 130ml buttermilk • 1-2 tbsp demerara sugar Method Preheat the oven to 1800C 1) Mix the rhubarb, granulated sugar, strawberries and elderflower cordial

your fingertips. Gradually add the

strawberries until all of the fruit is

together in an ovenproof dish.

buttermilk until you have a sticky

covered. Sprinkle with the demerara

dough that easily drops off a spoon.

sugar and then bake for 20 minutes

2) Sieve the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a large bowl.

Add the butter and rub it in with

3) P lace tablespoonfuls of the mixture on top of the rhubarb and

until risen and golden brown. Best eaten warm with cream.

PLAYING WITH FIRE

www.localfoodbritain.com. The aim of

CHEESE & WINE

The Rural Vintner at Trading Boundaries,

8th – 10th August. This year’s festival

the website is to provide a virtual shop

Sheffield Green has added a compact yet

promises to be even bigger than previous

window for independent food and drink

bijou deli to its wine shop. So now when

years with more entertainment, a chance

businesses. Visitors can search Local

you want to stock up on good quality

to glamp on-site and, of course, plenty of

Food Britain by categories, such as bread

wine from its fantastic range, you’ll be

hot stuff to tantalise your taste buds.

and pies or butchers and tea shops. It also

able to pick up some delicious cheese

Early Bird tickets are available until 31st

includes recipes and local food news.

and charcuterie to nibble on too.

July from www.westdean.org.uk/chilli.

KEEP IT LOCAL Sussex has been chosen as the destination to launch a new online local food initiative,

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The West Dean Chilli Fiesta is back on

WEDDINGS / RESTAURANT / BEDROOMS / MEETINGS

Dining at Pelham House ~ Delicious and seasonal Pelham House focuses on simple and delicious food, using good quality seasonal and locally sourced produce. We offer a variety of regularly changing menus.

The restaurant is the perfect setting for a special lunch or dinner. We also have several additional dining rooms which seat between 4 and 120 guests private dining.

Pelham House has a carefully selected list of wines and cocktails to complement our menus.

Diners can choose the historic Panelled Room, the charming Garden End Room or to dine alfresco on the stunning south facing Terrace.

Our Gallery menu is available from 10:00 until 22:00 for brunch, bar snacks, light meals and pre-dinner drinks and afternoon tea between 3pm and 5pm.

The Restaurant is open daily from 12:00 for lunch, and 18:00 for dinner.

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TURN UP THE HEAT

As the weather turns warmer, Sam Bilton catches up with chef and cookery writer Yotam Ottolenghi and discovers the secret of a great barbecue

T

here are very few things,

brave and take the barbecue plunge, so

in my book, which are not

I ask Ottolenghi for some tips (see box).

improved by the addition of some strong, black chargrill

markings,’ says Yotam Ottolenghi.

The Israeli-born chef, cookery writer

‘It’s really not that hard,’ says Ottolenghi. ‘As is often the case with cooking, the key is in the preparation.’

With this expert advice I now feel

and restaurant owner is appearing at

more confident about cooking outside

Sarah Raven’s Perch Hill Feast in East

this summer (although the barbecue

Sussex this month. Ottolenghi’s bold,

itself may take a while to resuscitate).

colourful and delicious food is heavily

So what does he have in store for the

influenced by his Middle Eastern roots.

lucky guests at the Perch Hill Feast?

There is talk of squares of halloumi

‘Perch Hill is the perfect place to

cheese, squash or sweet potato wedges,

cook tons of seasonal vegetables,’ says

meat koftas on skewers, whole sea

Ottolenghi. ‘It’s going to be a delicious

bass, quesadillas and even stone fruit

feast, drawing inspiration from my

wedges getting the chargrill treatment.

next book, Plenty More.’

It’s enough to make a barbecue-

Apparently the highlights include a

phobic girl like me salivate. ‘I’m totally

tomato and roasted lemon salad; beet

indiscriminate on this one,’ he says.

puree with yoghurt and za’atar and a

I have an expensive and cumbersome

deconstructed cheesecake with stewed

barbecue sulking in my garden. It has a

berries and orange oil. I’d be at this

right to be sullen as it has been largely

intimate celebration of seasonal food in

ignored for the past couple of years

a heartbeat, but unsurprisingly the 120

and is now rusting away in a corner.

tickets available for this event sold out

And the reason for this neglect? Fear.

in a flash. It looks like I’ll have to put up

I’m not a fan of barbecued food. The

with my own barbecue efforts until his

combination of scorched skin and the

new book comes out later this year.

risk of food poisoning just doesn’t work

Plenty More will be released in September

for me. But this year I feel I should be

2014. www.ottolenghi.co.uk.

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FOOD STYLE

GET YOUR MEAT FIX The Well Hung Meat Company

BBQ INSPIRATION If you feel like expanding your

barbecue culinary repertoire beyond sausages and burgers then you’ll love Weber’s Big Book of Barbecue.

It has 200 mouth-watering recipes including coffee-rubbed rib-eye steaks with stout glaze and prawn kebabs with pistachio-tarragon pesto.

Weber’s Big Book of Barbecue by Jamie Purviance (Hamlyn, £16.99) is available to Sussex Style readers for £11, plus free UK p&p. To order, please call 01903 828503 quoting Big/ HAM30. Offer subject to availability; please allow seven days for delivery.

YOTAM’S TOP BBQ TIPS Marinating your meat, fish or 1 vegetables in advance has a great effect on texture and flavour.

2

Keep it simple. I always prefer

to do two or three things really well on the barbecue than overcrowd and

has some brilliant barbecue meat boxes for the summer, which are delivered free to your door. Each is packed with barbecue favourites such as organic gourmet burgers, handmade sausages and succulent steaks.

The Family BBQ Pack arrives in an insulated envelope and provides all the BBQ essentials for up to four people for just £36 and the Hazy Days BBQ Box at £62.95 is perfect for catering for a hungry crowd.

The Well Hung Meat Company has created a special 10% discount voucher for Sussex Style readers, which will take 10% off your first box (valid until 01/01/15).

The code is Sussex Style 1. To order your box, visit www.wellhungmeat.com

HAVE FIRE WILL TRAVEL

WEBER SMOKEY JOE £69.99

Barbecuing doesn’t have to be restricted to the back garden.

Here are Sussex Style’s favourite portable barbecues for this summer

confuse the grill.

3

This compact and lightweight kettlestyle BBQ has a triple-plated cooking grate. Ideal for that trip to the beach.

Available from www.lakeland.co.uk

Take care when making skewers

from different types of vegetables and meat as they cook at different rates. Keep them on separate skewers if you can.

4

If using wooden skewers, give

them a good soak beforehand to prevent them burning and snapping.

5

MINI KADAI FIREBOWL £98

THE PARK BY JAMIE OLIVER £55

Don’t be shy about finishing

things off in the oven. Once things have got their eat-me chargrill stripes they can be finished off in the oven, freeing up the barbecue for the next batch of cooking.

Perfect for camping trips, this will cook everything from your sausages to toasted marshmallows.

Available from www.kadai.co.uk

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Green

GIANT Whether you opt for a juice-only detox or simply want to introduce some vital nutrients into your diet, Matt Guy Wright has some juicing advice for you

T

o juice or not to

Gwyneths, the Stellas and the

a ‘modern’ diet can do wonders

juice? That is the

Siennas can live off juice, juice

inside and out – a bit like a

question. Juicing

and only juice every single day

colonic irrigation, but without

has now got serious

without suffering the slightest

the embarrassment of it all.

– it’s big money and like all

craving for a Greggs pasty or an

things, when they become part

M&S cheese sarnie. These stars

of juicing is that you infuse

of the mainstream zeitgeist,

don’t do middle ground. Oh no.

your cells with those magical

controversy soon follows. The

They turned kale from cow chow

enzymes, micronutrients and

benefits of juicing are now a

into the rock star vegetable and

phytonutrients, which get

highly contentious issue in the

there’s no going back now.

destroyed in cooking.

media. While some ‘experts’ say

We have reached new territory

The other main advantage

With juicing there is no ‘one

it is the best thing since sliced

in juicing so don’t even think

size fits all’, so the best way to

bread (although they wouldn’t

about filling your body with one

approach it is to find what works

be caught dead eating it) others

of those banana and strawberry

for you. You can do a juice-only

are now saying that juicing is, at

smoothies in the shops that are

programme for five, 10, 15 days

best, a waste of time and at worst,

more sugar-laden than a can of

or more, or you can just commit

actually bad for you.

coke. If your juice doesn’t contain

to replacing one meal daily with

So what’s the answer? Juicing,

at least three plants you’ve never

a juice. But the real point is to get

in my experience, is very good for

heard of that grow somewhere on

more nutrients – in their purest

detoxing and cleansing the body,

a mountain then frankly, you’re

form – into your body.

losing weight and giving your

just an amateur.

skin that radiant healthy glow.

Some critics of juicing say

Now talking of pure, the purest of purists who worship at the

But how much is too much? That

that it depletes our bodies of

altar of the juicer, maximise

depends on how driven you are to

fibre, but for me, that’s the whole

their intake of all things good

look and feel your best. How can

point. Essentially, you’re giving

and glorious by adding some key

you unleash your inner goddess

your body a chance to ‘rest’ by

superfoods. These can be bought

without becoming a bona fide

introducing only liquids. You

in powder form and dissolve in

total juice bore?

don’t want to do that forever but

water, ideal for those who haven’t

giving your body a short break

the time or inclination to become

from the hard work of digesting

a true juicing devotee.

Yes, we all know that the Madonnas, Angelinas and the

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HEALTH STYLE

GET JUICING People often ask me what the ultimate juice recipe is for cleansing, weight loss, detox and skin vitality. If I could only recommend one, it’s this one. This, my friends, is the big one: 1 handful spinach 1 handful kale 1 handful rainbow chard 1 freshly squeezed orange 1 stick of celery 1 small beetroot 2 carrots 1 handful flat leaf parsley 4tbsp coconut water 1 knob ginger 1 tsp chlorella powder 1 tsp spirulina powder 1 tsp wheatgrass powder 1 tsp maca powder

Holland & Barrett and most local health food shops sell an organic range by Naturya and these are the four super heroes of them all: Chlorella powder – honestly?

This looks and tastes as if it’s come from a swamp. That’s because it has! Chlorella is a chlorophyll-rich pond algae. Good for normalising blood pressure, blood sugar levels, cholesterol and removing toxins.

Spirulina – a blue/green algae grown in lakes. This is one of the most powerful superfoods known to man. It has four times the antioxidant ability of blueberries.

Good for alleviating allergies, it’s an exceptional source of protein: gram per gram more so than beef, poultry, fish, and soya beans.

Wheatgrass – there’s no getting round this; it tastes awful but the benefits are worth it. This green vibrant plant purifies the liver and blood, and is just what your body wants after a heavy night.

Maca powder – the new musthave superfood. A magnificent mix of minerals, protein, iron and calcium. This root plant, similar to ginseng, grows at high altitudes on hostile terrain in the Peruvian Andes. It is dug out of the ground, dried in the sun then milled into a malty tasting powder. Its health benefits are impressive. It is claimed – not proven – that Maca improves: energy levels, muscle mass, muscle fatigue (ideal to mix into your post-workout protein shake) sexual function (boosting libido and increasing endurance), hormonal balance, menstrual issues (alleviates cramps, mood swings, anxiety, and hot flushes).

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TREND REPORT

Which holiday tribe are you? Beach, camping, cruise, cottage by the sea?

Get ready to relax: we’ve got your vacation wardrobe covered, says Sarah Drew Jones

Earrings, £12, Zara Simon for Accessorize, stores across Sussex

Top, £30, Dorothy Perkins, stores across Sussex

eBook holder, £69, Hobbs, Brighton and Chichester

Wide trousers, £14.99, and vest top, £7.99, both H&M, Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, Worthing

CITY BREAK

Mini snake satchel, £215, Coccinelle at House of Fraser, Chichester

Easy-to-wear lightweight separates in a cool neutral palette are the key to a chic city weekend

Grace dress, £119, Hobbs, Brighton and Chichester

Panama hat, £18, Next, stores across Sussex

Brogues, £39.99, H&M, Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, Worthing 34 | W W W. S U S SE X ST Y LE.CO M | J ULY 2014

Lace biker jacket, £65, Marks & Spencer, stores across Sussex

Trousers, £40, Wallis, Chichester and Eastbourne and department stores across Sussex

Effervescence necklace, £1,900, Links of London, Brighton and selected jewellers across Sussex

FASHION STYLE Beach bag, £29, Accessorize, stores across Sussex

Swimsuit, £25, Miss Selfridge, Brighton and department stores across Sussex

Leopard bikini top, £25, briefs, £18, Biba at House of Fraser, Chichester

Cobalt maxi, £16, Dorothy Perkins, stores across Sussex

Bikini top, £xxx and briefs, £xxxx, Seafolly, Lily & Grace, Forest Row

BEACH BABE

Make a splash on the beach in timeless classics: mix black and white with pops of colour and sheer printed fabrics

Aviators, £171, Miu Miu, www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk and selected optical retailers across Sussex

Silver wedge mules, £65, Dune, Debenhams, Brighton and House of Fraser, Chichester Sliders, £25, Next, stores across Sussex

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Sunglasses, £109, Marc Jacobs, www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk and selected optical retailers across Sussex

Tee, £17.50, Marks & Spencer, stores across Sussex

Watch, £85, Karen Millen, Brighton

Jacket, £150, top, £50, jeans, £115, all Betty Barclay, Wardrobe, Crowborough and Broadleys, East Grinstead

Satin parka, £37, Wallis, Chichester and Eastbourne and department stores across Sussex

Wedges, £55, Office, Brighton

Padded jacket, £89, East, Brighton, Chichester, Lewes

COUNTRY ESCAPE Animal prints add edge to a rural retreat weekend wardrobe. Practical meets pretty in statement jewellery: invest now, love forever

Sneakers, £35, Red Herring at Debenhams, Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing

Backpack, £45, Floozie by Frost French at Debenhams, Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing 36 | W W W. S U S SE X ST Y LE.CO M | J ULY 2014

Wimbledon bracelet, £140, Links of London in Brighton and selected jewellers across Sussex

FASHION STYLE

Ray-Bans, £105, Vision Express, stores across Sussex

Denim blazer, £59.99, H&M, Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, Worthing

Bag, £39.50, Marks & Spencer, stores across Sussex

Trilby, £22, Howick at House of Fraser, Chichester

Bracelets, from £5, Burton, Brighton, Eastbourne, Horsham, Worthing

Blazer, £75, polo, £15, sunglasses, £13, chinos, £28, espadrilles, £26, all Next, stores across Sussex

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Breton-style sweater, £135, Polo Ralph Lauren at House of Fraser, Chichester

Always on trend, nautical stripes and casual cotton separates dominate summer.

Pair deck shoes or sneakers with linen blazers for style points

Sneakers, £55, Hammond & Co. by Patrick Grant at Debenhams, Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne, Hastings, Worthing

Chino shorts, £39.99, Superdry, Brighton, Crawley

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BEAUTY STYLE

Beauty news Our resident beauty expert on her favourite new products and treatments

E

ver fancied having your lips plumped up a bit

but scared of ending up with the dreaded trout pout? Well we’ve found the solution, and not only

We

apparently the Rolls-Royce of fillers, she’s got an amazing knack of putting it in all the right places, and massaging it so that the shape is evenly distributed. We tested it

is it right on your doorstep, it won’t

out and can confirm that yes, this

break the bank, either.

really does work and no, there is

Allison Jeffery in Brighton is one of a select handful of practitioners in the UK that are trained and qualified to perform what’s known as the ‘Heart Lip’ procedure.

Developed by Dr Bob Khanna,

no rubber dinghy look.

lips

Following a liberal application of anaesthetic cream, the injections are a bit uncomfortable, but pretty bearable, and any bruising goes down fairly quickly. The end effect

the Heart Lip is the creation of

is subtle – nobody would look at

beautiful heart-shaped lips by using

you and go ‘woah’, but the general

precision-placed fillers so that the

appearance is more youthful, giving

lips are shaped naturally. Jeffery’s

the face an overall lift. As we age,

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we lose all the plumpness – this

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tarting our new monthly feature where

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we seek out the very best spas and

We’re loving this new Agadir Hair

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Shield 50° Intense Crème, which is

Evissa Bliss in Littlehampton.

perfect for keeping summer frizz

What does it do?

at bay. With antioxidants and pure

It’s easier to ask what it doesn’t do. Offering

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everything from hairdressing (including

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and reflexology to Shellac and acrylic nails,

The ‘shock protein’ is

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It’s got to be the eyelash extensions. It’s hard

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SUN KISSED Be a beach babe this summer with our top ten products for looking good on the go

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MAC Pedro Lourenço Corol Compact £23 Available at MAC, Brighton and beauty counters

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Revlon Hydra Balm £9.99 Available at www.revlonprofessional.com

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Clarins Sun Care Oil Spray UVB/UVA 30 £18 Available at Clarins counters

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Origins GinZing Refreshing Scrub Cleanser £18.50 Available at Origins counters

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Clinique Long Last Soft Matte Lipstick in Mandarin £17 Available at Clinique counters

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7

Crabtree & Evelyn Caribbean Island Wild Flowers Eau de Toilette £19 Available at Crabtree & Evelyn, Brighton and Chichester

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Korres Holiday in Greece Gift Set £19 Available at Debenhams

The Body Shop Body Sorbet £8 Available at The Body Shop

Lanolips Lip Ointment with Colour SPF 15 £7.99 Available at Boots and all good chemists

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TECHNOLOGY Bruzz is creating a buzz within the beauty world…

T

he nailbrush is a

the impregnated vanilla extract

bathroom essential,

keeps it – and your nails

yet although it

– smelling gorgeous too.

comes in many

Grubby nails (and fingers)

by containing all liquid within Above and opposite: Bruzz is available in hot pink, blue and white and retails at £11.95

the brush. It can be used on natural nails as well as acrylics, gels, gel polish, fiberglass and all

different sizes and materials,

will be a thing of the past with a

its design remains relatively

simple squeeze of liquid soap into

unchanged. That is, until now.

the centre of the Bruzz, making

Bruzz is a unique design, which

them really sparkle, and it can

The woman behind the brand

is registered and patented, and

also be used dry as a dusting

Bruzz was born when Emma

cleans the top, underside and tip

brush. The removable soft-touch

Myers, a nail and beauty

of the nail in one simple action.

bristles make it easy to clean –

therapist, couldn’t find anything

It nurtures nails with its multi-directional cleaning while

even dishwasher safe – for long lasting results.

the antibacterial bristles ensure

Unlike a standard

upmost hygiene as well as

nailbrush, the ergonomic

maintaining beautiful, healthy

Bruzz prevents excess

nails. Its gentle action gives a nail

water and soap spray

massage at the same time and

splashing the bathroom

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kinds of nail art (including 3D) and even on toes.

better than a standard nailbrush. She worked with a design team, applied for the patent, design protection and trademark and after months of intensive testing, Bruzz is

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creating a buzz. She says: ‘Many nail technicians won’t use a standard nailbrush on a client as they cannot be sanitised properly and are hard on the nails. Bruzz is so easy to use – as a nail cleaning brush, a finger cleaner and a dusting brush.

Clients will love them because

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Bruzz prevents excess water and soap spray splashing the bathroom by containing all liquid within the brush

there’s nothing more frustrating than your nails being dirty only a couple of days after having your nails done, and the only way to get the dirt out is to use the end of a cuticle pusher. It still amazes me that I have invented this product that actually works and does the job brilliantly.’

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All at I

Sea

Sofie Allsopp takes inspiration from the seaside to furnish a relaxed-yet-chic summer bolt-hole ts official, folks: summer is

the style. The Americans do

here. The Chelsea Flower

relaxed surfside décor so much

Show has been and gone,

better; you only have to open an

Wimbledon is happening

interiors mag across the pond to

as we speak and I have spotted

see a jaw-droppingly beautiful

my first inappropriately attired

beach house. Yet it is a very

sunbather in the local park.

simple look to achieve, even if

Summer for me is synonymous

you are miles from the sea.

with the seaside, so this month’s

The palate is pale – so think

column is dedicated to beachside

white walls, light floors, grey, blue

living; but I’m thinking Long

and pink fabrics that look slightly

Island rather than Lyme Regis.

distressed and sun-bleached.

My inspiration is more Martha’s

Then add lots of natural textures

Vineyard than Margate – with

and materials such as linens,

clapboard houses, beautifully

rattan, wicker and driftwood.

decorated in faded hues and

Beach houses should look

natural textures.

There is something slightly

relaxed – casual, even, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be

depressing about a lot of seaside

beautiful and chic at the same

interior design in Britain – a

time. Jackie O’s look was always

rental cottage by the sea with

flawless and well-thought-out,

endless model boats in the

even when she was doing dress-

windowsills, bowls of dusty

down summer on Cape Cod,

shells and fake driftwood signs

and we should apply a similar

saying ‘gone fishing’ – you know

attitude to our decor.

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Beach houses should look relaxed, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be beautiful and chic at the same time First things first, we want to maximise natural light and make the most of any coastal views, Emily corner sofa, www.sofa.com

so ditch the heavy curtains and replace with lightweight blinds in natural materials. I love curtains, they are cosy in winter and are perfect in many styles of houses; but for your beachside bolt-hole we want something that lets the sunshine pour in. Blinds UK (www.blindsuk.net) has a wide range of woven bamboo roll-up and Roman blinds in a wide range of hues, from Bali Mushroom (£24) to my favourite, Arena Jasmin Natural (£38). These blinds are affordable, easy to install and will maximise the vista.

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Ellitat mo verum est laut ius, simaio vero dolenim nonesci pidiae porum quidelest vent offictem a dolorerio. Et veliquas que vel idia cullaut officie nestibus, officabo.

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The bigger and softer the better,

1

and www.sofa.com is the place to go to get custom made sofas that don’t leave you weeping at the expense. There are over 30 styles, which you then customise by choosing the fabric; I’d go for The

2

Long Island three-part set. If you are feeling flush and you have the space I would opt for two sofas facing each other on either side of a coffee table.

For fabric I’d choose the white/cream brushed linen cotton (£2,730). White sofas look incredibly chic in beach

3

houses, although if you have toddlers they are not the most practical choice (blueberry jam is unforgiving). If your house is infested with ankle-biters, check out the indigo nomad

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stripe (£2,730) – the stripes are quite nautical and the colour is reminiscent of crashing waves.

Another nod to the sea is the slightly bonkers but wonderfully playful Graham and Green

beach houses. I love driftwood –

Ariel Rococo Chair (£695)

it can look out of place in urban

(www.grahamandgreen.co.uk).

spaces, but not here. The Nautilus

Inspired by a clamshell and

Driftwood Design bespoke

covered in textured linen it is

driftwood coffee table from

quirky and original – pop a pair

www.notonthehighstreet.com

on either side of a wood-burning

(£882) has a rustic feel but is still

stove or place one facing your

attractive – and the flashes of

sofa: the perfect chair in which

blue in the reclaimed timber tie

to ape Botticelli’s ‘Venus’.

in nicely with our colour scheme.

Coffee tables are essential for

I also love the rectangular

Above: 1: Avalon 2-seater sofa in Indigo Nomad Stripe, www.sofa.com 2: Bespoke driftwood coffee table, www.notonthe highstreet.com 3: Rectangular natural driftwood coffee table, Doris

by Karen Miller 4: Ariel Rococo Chair, Graham and Green

accessories that hint to the house’s connection to the sea are a different matter. Etsy has some lovely nautical art prints, illustrations from a 19th-century Belgian book of hand-coloured lithographs, red and blue corals, beautiful octopuses, sea anemones, sea horses and shells.

I love Japanese art, and one of the most iconic pieces of Japanese

displaying your slightly smug

natural driftwood coffee table

custom-made photograph books

(£750) from Doris by Karen

of summers at the cottage,

Miller (www.dorisbrixham.co.uk)

the ones that resemble Boden

although it could work better in

zazzle.co.uk has a multitude

catalogues but with more tears

a hallway or as a drinks table.

of pillows and cushions with

and less good weather. By the sea

As I say, a lot of seaside houses

art is Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’. I love Japanese depictions of waves and www.

vintage wave patterns on them.

you always feel closer to nature

seem to be heavy on the tat;

These are perfect to pile onto the

and the elements and that’s why

I am not a fan of twee nick-nacks

Long island sofa: a nod to the

natural materials look good in

but tasteful prints or beautiful

ocean without an anchor in sight.

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YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT KITCHEN STUDIO

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Glow

GO WITH THE

Add splashes of colour and light to your home with these funky products, picked by Spotted Boutique’s Jess Denny

Seletti Submarino bathroom set This fun porcelain bathroom accessory features several different components that all fit together with magnets £50, Edited, Brighton

Seletti Hybrid glasses These creative glasses are sliced in half, cleverly juxtaposing cultural scenes and themes £32.50 for three, Edited, Brighton

One In A Million bird ring These stylish, colourful rings are made using 3D-printing technology and each one is completely unique £29.95, Spotted, Steyning

Flag pillow cases Whether they represent a souvenir of a special journey or patriotic pride, these handmade pillow cases are colourful and fun £17, www.arteedecoro.net

Seletti Hybrid cake stand These beautifully detailed stands feature two different designs sliced in half, as though two different stands have been joined together From £62.50, www.amara.com

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DESIGN STYLE

Flamingo How do you add colour and style to your home? Just add a funky flamingo! £65, www.notonthehighstreet.com

Mighty Purse This purse with a difference has a built-in smartphone charger £80, Spotted, Steyning

Poms These delightful coloured tissue paper pom-poms make great party decorations or kids’ bedroom accessories £17.95 for three, www.lifesaparty.co.uk

Lollipop lights Fabulous and fun, these battery-operated lollipop lights will brighten up any room or special event! £19.95, Spotted, Steyning

Multilamp floor lamp This industrial-looking tilting floor lamp takes its design cues from movie projectors and sports fields £396, www. madeindesign.co.uk

Bakker Made With Love suitcases These wonderfully retro kids’ suitcases come in a range of sizes and are certain to turn heads on your travels From £33.75, www.notonthehighstreet.com

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Indian Chic

Trading Boundaries offer a unique range of summer furniture and accessories Indian cotton umbrella with hand block detail (on inside) £495

Silver lantern with embossed detail £95

Jasmine plant £47.50 Olive tree £72.50

Silk seat cushions £27.50

Hand-painted teak sideboard £525

Ringo the dog Part of the furniture

Wooden painted candlesticks £29.50

Iron pot £75 Bamboo and cotton picnic rugs £25 ini wicker hamper £18 M Carafe & stirrer £27.50 Juice glasses £4.50 Hand-painted dowry cabinet £695

eak cabinet with T hand-painted doors £345 52 | W W W. S U S SE X ST Y LE.CO M | J ULY 2014

Kew planters From £27.50 Spice cabinet £695

I ron skillet fire pits From £35

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Personal

SERVICE The Upholsterer prides itself on its friendly, quality-focused service, which is why it has become a haven for those looking for furnishings with a personal touch

T

he success of The Upholsterer would, according to Mary Portas, appear to

go against the commonly held perception of what is happening on Britain’s high streets.

This personalised, qualityfocused, and independent supplier of upholstery services, individually tailored curtains, fabrics and bespoke furniture,

abilities enable her to help clients

as well as interior design services

find exciting solutions to their

has not only survived the

design and fabric needs.

recession but has moved from strength to strength.

Above: Upholsterer Milos Jandac at work

A full upholstery service is

consultancy service, which includes design advice, measurement, finish and trimmings guidance so as to

offered, including advice and

match the customer’s budget

consultancy on a range of

and style requirements. Similarly

in October 2009 by the husband

options such as piping finish,

with blinds, where the sheer

and wife team of Laura and Milos

deep buttoning, padding, and

volume of blind types and

Jandac. Milos is the upholsterer

replacement springs. A choice

operating mechanisms can

and brings more than 20 years’

of more than 2,500 fabrics is

be difficult to fathom, tailored

experience to the craft he cares so

designed to meet the needs of

consultancy and guidance is

much about. Laura is a graduate

most clients and their varied

offered with The Upholsterer’s

of Leeds University having

demands and budgets from

compliments.

studied Textile Design, which she

conservative to more eclectic

supplemented with a diploma

or contemporary tastes.

The Upholsterer was opened

in Interior Design at the world-

In line with The Upholsterer’s

renowned KLC School of Design

philosophy of tailoring their

in Chelsea Harbour. Fabrics are

services to meet customer’s

Laura’s passion, which when

specific needs, all curtains

combined with her creative

are handmade locally. A free

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The space in which we live has a vital influence on our state

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of being. The Upholsterer is

The Upholsterer has become a haven for anyone wishing to steer away from commercially produced furnishings

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happy to offer decoration advice

that is based totally around

on transforming a blank canvas

the customer and their needs.

into a finished living area. Its

Their shop is run with a relaxed

samples service ensures that you

ambience and style that enables

are able to colour match and

the best choice for the customer

compliment existing features,

to come to the fore.

shades and fabrics.

The Upholsterer has become

For those who cannot find

a haven for anyone wishing to

the exact design or shape they

steer away from commercially

really want Milos has years of

produced standard furnishings

experience in designing and

so as to create their own personal

creating bespoke furniture

touch. The workshop is on

that meets a customer’s exact

site and potential and existing

requirements. From sofas

customers are encouraged to

and chairs to upscale

view the high quality of

children’s furniture, Milos offers

workmanship for which the

a personalised approach to

business has become known.

meeting a customer’s needs.

At The Upholsterer, Laura and Milos have created an approach

Above and right: furniture restoration and re-upholstery can have a stunning impact on your interior space

The Upholsterer, 15 North

FOR GUIDANCE OR A FREE CONSULTATION

Call Laura on 01730 810284 or email her at laura@theupholsterermidhurst.co.uk.

Alternatively pop in to the shop anytime between Tuesday and Saturday.

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INTERIORS STYLE

Mix

MATCH & With a little creativity you can combine a number of your favourite fabrics together in one room, says Laura Jandac

I

am on cloud nine. I have just booked a ‘proper’ summer holiday. One that involves sunshine, sand and, most importantly, maid service. A whole blissful week where someone else feeds me and tidies up for me. I can’t wait.

It will be our first proper holiday since we became self-

employed and parents to our son, so it’s a big deal. And what does a girl need? A summer wardrobe of course! It’s sadly been so long since my last holiday that fashion has moved on and I am now one (ok, two) stone heavier than I was, so

dress fabrics available but they can’t stand up to the wear

off to the shops I went. I wanted everything I laid my eyes on.

and tear. Put them on the back of an armchair and choose

The dilemmas. What colours? What patterns? What length?

a complementary, stronger fabric, on the front. Perhaps you

I just wanted to take a bit of everything with me. I wanted

have your heart set on an insanely expensive fabric. Cover

the green top to go with the stripey shorts, the red dress, the

a smaller area in that and use a more reasonably priced

blue dress and the white dress.

fabric on the rest. These pictures show a few different styles

It reminded me of when I have clients who are re-designing a room and they have a whole host of fabrics that they

of chair, all working the theme of ‘The More the Merrier’.

The fabrics shown here are from Linwood Fabrics

desperately want to include when they actually only need

(www.linwoodfabric.com). Checks and florals are a classic

a sofa and a pair of curtains. We end up making scatter

combination, as are stars and stripes or a rough texture and

cushions galore as a way of including as many as possible.

a bit of something shiny. There is so much to choose from

Recently though, there has been a wave of popularity for using more than one fabric on a single piece of furniture.

you can have a piece of furniture unique to you.

I’m not sure I am going to be wearing checks and florals

This is a great idea if you are trying to include as many

on the beach this summer but I’m going to doing plenty of

fabrics as possible but also it’s great for including fabrics that

mixing and matching and may even throw in a bit of bling.

perhaps are not suitable for upholstery. There are fantastic

I suggest you have a go, too.

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Regain the use of this valuable space and start enjoy your conservatory again by contacting us today for a free, no obligation quotation

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COOL LIVING

For contemporary kitchens and bathrooms with a touch of elegance, look no further than these local showrooms, which offer plenty of interior design inspiration

Above: Alaska Grey 60cm x 60cm matt porcelain tiles, Eurotiles Right: Chichester double bed with high footboard painted in Smoke ÂŁ1,080, Neptune

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INTERIOR STYLE

Above: George Angus medium sofa £1,590 and George Angus armchair £925, Neptune Left: Blinds, Rusdens.

Rusdens provides a home measuring and installation service on all blinds, shutters and curtains

Below left: Athens travertine mini mosaic in stone, glass and metal, Eurotiles Below right: Chichester extending dining table £995 and Suffolk painted dining chairs £180 each, Neptune

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Top left: Florence beige 31.6cm x 60cm ceramic wall tiles in flat and wavy; Florence 45cm x 45cm floor tiles, Eurotiles Top right: Made-to-measure curtains, ready and installed in your home within 14 days, Rusdens Stockists: www.eurotilesandbathrooms.com; www.neptune.com; www.rusdens.co.uk

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Above: Chichester bathroom cabinets, from ÂŁ3,295, Neptune Left: Limehouse kitchen cabinets, painted in Lily, from ÂŁ11,000, Neptune

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FRESH SALMON

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A fantastic new location and an ever-expanding product range ensures that David Salmon Furnishers is staying ahead of the game

avid Salmon Furnishers expanded into

Paul is an advocate of buying locally and also believes in

a stunning new oak furniture ‘lifestyle’ store

sustainable quality for his new oak furniture range – that’s

earlier this year, in the former Oak Interiors

why many of the pieces you’ll find here are made from

site at Cross In Hand, near Heathfield. The new

European oak with a low carbon footprint.

showroom, on the main A267 just north of Heathfield, is

‘We will continue to offer the people of Eastbourne and

the latest step undertaken by managing director, Paul

East Sussex a superb service and an ever-expanding product

Salmon. Since returning to the business that his father

range and I look forward to welcoming customers to our new

started over 30 years ago, Paul has completely modernised

store at Cross In Hand,’ says Paul.

it without compromising on service or quality.

This new David Salmon showroom features some

Paul says: ‘Since my return to the business, I realised that

spectacular solid European oak furniture that will enhance

if we were going to continue as a prominent local family firm

any home, and the team has now also introduced sofas and

we needed to move with the times and embrace new styles,

chairs to the store. Customers who have shopped at Oak

brands and materials. We also needed to be confident about

Interiors in the past will recognise many of the well-loved

the internet and how people buy furniture – that’s why we

ranges, but many new products have been introduced for

offer beautiful surroundings for customers to touch and try

the living and dining rooms.

out the furniture. In addition, our ‘Price Promise’ guarantees

David Salmon Furnishers, Wealden House, Cross In Hand, East

that we won’t be beaten on price – even online!’

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PROTECT DEFEND &

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GLASS Firstly, let’s look at the glass. EnduroShield for Glass is a revolutionary invisible coating that repels water, grime and soap scum, allowing for much easier cleaning… less often.

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MUM ON THE RUN How do small children have a knack of being ill at the worst possible time and making a miraculous recovery just when you’ve dropped everything to tend to them?

Laura Jandac wonders...

between them. As she explained to me what their problems

happy with but a gift nonetheless. He seems to

were I did have to raise an eyebrow as her oldest tried to look

have a sixth sense of knowing when mummy

up the skirt of the lady next to her, her middle child wanted

has a really busy week at work, guests to stay

to play hide-and-seek with my son and her youngest was

and a pile of laundry to do. That’s when he announces that

playing peek-a-boo with me from behind the chair. I am in no

he doesn’t feel very well.

doubt that 30 minutes earlier they were all showing genuine

Of course I don’t want my child to be ill. Never. But if he must, could he not at least wait until I have a quiet week?

symptoms but the doors at the surgery have magical powers.

Another friend was called into school to collect her

Our life was tipped upside-down recently when he was

daughter who had been complaining of feeling sick. Said

really poorly. Three hospital visits later he has made a full

friend dropped everything and rushed to pick her up. No

recovery and, while he has jollied back to school excited to

sooner had they got home her daughter asked to go outside

see his friends I am left reeling, desperately trying to catch up with everything that has been put on hold for the past week.

I have to admit that I had expected him to make a miraculous

❝

and ride her bike. Reluctantly

How many times have you taken what appears to be a very ill child to the GP only for them to walk into the waiting room and perk up immediately?

recovery as soon as we reached the doctor’s. How many times

my friend agreed and by the time I arrived to see how she was doing she was throwing herself backwards down the slide and demanding ice cream!

It made me wonder. At what age do our children learn

have you taken what appears to be a very ill child to see the

to – I hesitate to say lie – about feeling ill to avoid school,

GP only for them to walk into the waiting room and perk up

tidying their room or visiting your old auntie? I look back at

immediately? You patiently wait to see the doctor while your

things that I used to do and the lengths that I went to to get

child climbs all over the furniture, does a train impression

out of certain situations. I am still quite proud of the fact that

and makes a mess playing with the water fountain. When

I never, in my whole school career, ran the annual cross-

you finally get to see the doctor you feel like such a fraud as

country race due to my ‘bad knees’.

your child is happy as Larry without so much as a sniffle.

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My son was definitely ill this time but next time I might have to dig a bit deeper to make sure he didn’t just fancy a duvet day. After all, who doesn’t?

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PENNY PINCHERS

With so many financial transactions being made in a couple of clicks, it’s no wonder that our children have little experience with cash.

Sam Bilton finds out how we can enhance their financial knowledge

‘L

ook after the

need to manage their money

pennies and the

well,’ explains Tracey Bleakley,

pounds will look

chief executive of pfeg. ‘There is

after themselves,’

a lack of financial capability in

was a phrase bandied around our

this country, and we have been

house a lot when I was growing

campaigning with others for

up. For my part, this message

financial education to be included

fell on deaf ears. I was woefully

in the national curriculum to

bad at saving as a child, with any

help address that gap.’

money I received quite literally

Pfeg helped establish the All

burning a hole in my pocket.

Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young

Help is at hand

People. It believes that managing

Hopefully, my children will be

money, from opening a bank

more finance-savvy than their

account to learning how to

mother. From September 2014

budget, is a vital skill for young

financial education will become

people to have in order to play

part of the national curriculum

a full role in society. By including

for all 11-to-16-year-olds as part

financial education in the

of their maths and PSHE or

national curriculum, pfeg hopes

citizenship lessons.

that young people will be able

Financial education charity

to avoid unmanageable debt.

Personal Finance Education

‘Parents have a really

Group (pfeg) has been

important role to play in financial

campaigning for financial

education and in helping their

education to be taught in school since 2011.

‘Financial education is essential in giving young people the skills, knowledge and confidence they

❝

Children are disconnected from the way adults use money. They see us hand over a card to pay for the shopping or order books online with a couple of clicks

children understand money,’ says Bleakley. ‘We always say it’s a lot like learning to read – you do that at school, but it needs to be reinforced at home.’ ›› JULY 2014 | WWW.SUSSEXSTYL E .C O M | 6 7

Putting your hand in your pocket Financial education at home usually starts with the doling out of pocket money, although this can be a contentious issue in some households. On the one hand it can be seen as a good thing to reward children for undertaking chores around the house. However, some people would argue that these chores should be done as a matter of course with no financial incentive. After all when was the last time somebody gave you money for doing the washing up or the ironing?

Then there is the issue of how it should be given. With so many of our financial transactions now digitised, such as downloading games for a mobile phone, is there still a place for cash?

‘I think pocket money is a great

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Pocket money is a great way to teach children about finances. It offers them a bit of independence and can teach them important life skills Hill and a small group of

friends established Go Henry to help children and teenagers

way to teach children about

understand how money works in

financial decisions,’ says Louise

the modern world. The account

Hill, chief operating officer of

only went live 18 months ago but

Go Henry, an online account for

already has over 10,000 families

8-18-year-olds, and the first to

using it across the UK.

offer children as young as eight

Go Henry enables parents to

Above and previous page: The Go Henry credit card and app allows 8-18-year-olds to save – or spend – their pocket money, with their habits monitored by their parents

a real time picture of the account for children and adults. Parents can also use the app to monitor the child’s spending or saving habits and can instantly transfer additional funds or put a stop to further expenditure if needs be.

‘The last thing we want to do is digitise the relationship

a card. ‘It offers them a bit of

set up online accounts for each

between parents and children,’

independence from their parents

of their children into which

says Hill. ‘Go Henry aims to open

and can teach them important

they can transfer their pocket

discussions between parents

life skills for adulthood.’

money. Each child receives a card

and children about how best to manage their personal finances.’

Hill became aware of parents

that can be used anywhere that

bemoaning the fact their children

accepts Visa to make purchases.

were running up huge bills on

As a prepaid card the child can

is to actually talk to your children

their iTunes accounts. ‘Children

only spend they money they have

about money,’ agrees Bleakley.

are disconnected from the way

available so there is no danger

‘Sit them down with the family

adults use money,’ she explains.

of them becoming overdrawn.

finances, explain to them where

‘They see us hand over a card at

Further controls are set by the

money comes from and how

the supermarket to pay for the

parents, such as maximum

you make financial decisions.

shopping or order books online

single expenditure and a weekly

That alone can do wonders

with a couple of clicks. They don’t

spend limit. The account can

for their financial capability.’

make the link between digital

be accessed via the Go Henry

www.gohenry.co.uk

money and hard cash.’

website and app, which offers

www.pfeg.org

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Just how important is a proficiency in a second language, and how are schools preparing pupils for a future in international business? Sam Bilton finds out

A

s the end of the school

per cent but in Britain it’s just

year looms many of

nine per cent. There is a genuine

us will soon be jetting

fear in commercial and political

off to sunnier climes

arenas that poor language skills

for our annual summer holiday.

will prevent our children from

But how many of us will make an

getting jobs both here in the

attempt to learn a bit of the local

UK and abroad.

lingo before we go, even if it’s

‘Learning another language is

only a cursory greeting or how

key to understanding another

to ask for a beer?

culture so it’s crucial that our

Not many, it seems. A survey

young people can do that in order

conducted by www.hotels.com in

to compete in a global economy

2011 showed that 64 per cent of

or live in a global society,’

us are completely unable to say

explains Mark Moulding from

anything in a foreign tongue, and

the British Council.

only a third of us are willing to give it a go when abroad.

The Brits’ reputation for

There is an assumption that everyone speaks English around the world. The reality is that

appalling foreign language skills

only one quarter of the world’s

may well provide great comedy

population speaks English. The

fodder for the likes of Del Boy in

government estimates that our

Only Fools and Horses but there is

poor linguistic skills are costing

a serious note underlying it.

the UK economy nearly £50bn a

A European Survey of Language Competence conducted

year simply because we lack the

Above: Brighton College is encouraging pupils to have a global outlook by teaching them Mandarin

of opportunities for them to live and work overseas.’

The British Council’s recent Languages for the Future report identified the 10 most important languages for the UK’s future.

fluency to close business deals.

These are the languages most

by the Education, Audiovisual

‘UK employers are crying out

useful for a number of factors

and Culture Executive Agency

for people with language skills

ranging from business and

(EACEA) in 2012 uncovered a

but they’re telling us that not

tourism to national security.

gaping discrepancy between

nearly enough of our young

Some of the languages on that

the number of British pupils

people are entering the world

list such as Spanish, French and

who are able to speak a second

of work with this ability,’ stresses

German have been taught in our

language proficiently when

Mark. ‘Being able to speak

schools for a long time. However,

they finish their secondary

another language will give any

languages such as Mandarin and

education when compared

young person an enormous

Arabic are not widely taught in

to their EU counterparts.

advantage in finding a good job.

schools but are equally important

Plus it opens up a wealth

for the UK’s economic future.

In Sweden this number is 82

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NEVER TOO LATE If you need proof that it’s

never too late to improve your ability or start learning a new language from scratch, look no further than Eddie Izzard. The comedian, who spent part of his childhood in Sussex, chose to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day in June by performing his

Force Majeure show in French and German as well as English, with just a secondary school foundation in both foreign languages. Apparently he has plans to do the show in Russian, Spanish and Arabic. Now that’s what you call a challenge.

Brighton College started teaching Mandarin in 2007, and it is compulsory for all Year 9 pupils to study it. Around 40 to 50 continue with Mandarin after this time and 90 per cent of their pupils choose to study a foreign language at GCSE level even though it is not compulsory for them to do so.

‘At Brighton College we want our pupils to know about the

❝ Being able to speak another language will give any young person an enormous advantage in finding a good job

ways Mandarin is easier to learn

links between different foreign

than French or English because

languages and cultures and this

the sentence structure lacks

helps encourage the respect for

complicated tenses. The most

other nationalities.’

challenging aspects of learning

The EACEA has set a target for

this language are mastering

at least 50 per cent of 15 year-olds

the tones and memorising a

to attain the level of ‘independent

huge number of characters,

user of a first foreign language’

although she believes this also

by 2020. Organisations such as

enhances the students’ power

the British Council can clearly

of concentration.

see the benefit of this.

‘Mandarin teaches pupils

‘As Nelson Mandela said,

world and be curious to find

how to be disciplined with their

“if you speak to someone in

out more,’ explains deputy

learning routines, but the biggest

a language they understand,

headmistress Jo-Anne Riley.

benefits are cultural,’ she says. ‘To

you’re talking to their head but

‘Teaching Mandarin immediately

speak a language is to understand

if you speak to them in their own

gave us this outward perspective.’

a culture much more deeply. Our

language, you’re talking to their

pupils have the ability to make

heart,”’ concludes Mark.

Riley assures me that in many

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Sussex A WEEKEND IN

Whether you want a beach, city or countryside break this summer, Sussex has so much to offer, says Abbie Mutch, who describes her perfect weekend

A

weekend away is an

something I want to buy in

opportunity to escape

almost every shop, whether it’s

our hectic everyday lives,

the cookery shops, department

but a stress-free break doesn’t

stores, high street chains or the

have to be sedentary.

diverse array of independent

When we dream of perfect

shops. My favourite is shoe shop

serenity, many of us picture

ZigZag, which stocks everything

the white sandy beaches of a

from Converse and Vans to

Caribbean island with the warm

designer heels.

sun beating down on us. But in

Hopefully not too weighed

fact we have our very own slice

down with shopping bags, I

of paradise right on our doorstep,

would jump into my car, and

at West Wittering, West Sussex.

travel 20 minutes down the road

With its golden sand dunes and

to the beautiful and historic

blonde beaches, I don’t think it

town of Arundel and check

could be much further away from

in at Arundel House hotel.

my idea of heaven

Feeling hungry after all that

After sunbathing and building

shopping, I could happily grab

sandcastles (for me a lot more

a table at any of the fabulous

of the latter) I would fulfil the

restaurants on offer in Arundel,

‘perfect day at the sea’ quota

but you need venture no further

with a stroll to The Lamb Inn

than downstairs to the lovely

and help myself to one of the

restaurant inside the hotel.

most delicious beer-battered

If I were to have anything it

cod and chips in existence.

would have to be the scrumptious

If you’re yearning for

steak and ale pie they have on the

something a bit more urban,

menu. After packing so much

just eight miles down the road

in on the first day, it’s probably

from West Wittering is one of

time for an early night.

the most famous Roman cities

Sunday morning is probably

in Britain, Chichester. Now, I am

the only time when you can truly

not a stereotypical shopaholic

justify having a fry-up and there

kind of girl, but even I can find

could be no better place than

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Partners Café, which is just a 3-minute stroll from the hotel.

There’s no better way to walk off that hearty breakfast than wandering Above, clockwise from top: ZigZag; Vintage Rose Café & Bookshop; The Lamb Inn Main image: Vintage Rose Café & Bookshop Bottom: Sparks Yard

around the many quirky shops in Arundel, making sure you stop and have a Lucky Charm milkshake at Sparks Yard.

Just a 15-minute drive from the town of Arundel you’ll find the stunning South Downs, with magnificent views in all directions; but before you stroll along the beautiful hills you’ll be needing some more ‘fuel’, so travel just five minutes further to the small town of Storrington and have a bite to eat at the delightful Vintage Rose Café & Bookshop, which combines two of my favourite things: books and cake.

Hours can simply melt away as you pore over classical literature or even optical illusion books, while drinking one of their delicious hot chocolates.

Now it’s time to head for the Downs. I’m sure there will be others with the same idea as you, but no number of walkers, cyclists or dogs can even begin to take away from the beauty of the South Downs.

In every minute of my weekend away I have been submerged in

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beautiful scenery, welcomed into enchanting independent shops and indulged at wonderful cafés, and yet I have only just scratched the surface of the wonderful, diverse activities and places that Sussex has to offer.

Perhaps I should extend my holiday to a week.

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TOWN

&COUNTRY

Sussex Style’s hotel inspector Julie Burchill was so taken with the rural charm of this elegant town house that she’s already booked to stay there again

I

’ve liked all the hotels I’ve

me, you are a lark married to an

reviewed so far, but I wasn’t

owl, it’s very pleasant to be so

prepared for the sheer

near to everything. Even at the

gorgeousness of Pelham

loveliest country house hotel,

House. I live only 15 minutes from

it’s entirely possible to wake up

Lewes by car and although I was

early, sneak out of the room to

aware of the hotel’s redoubtable

avoid waking your spouse and

reputation, for some reason I

find yourself wandering down

thought it was in the country

the driveway, feeling quite like

outside our county town rather

the no-mates narrator in that

than being tucked away just off

creepy old pop song, Everyone’s

the High Street.

And indeed it is a strange paradox – a country house hotel in an urban(ish) setting. If, like

Gone To The Moon.

House in the Country: At Pelham House hotel, gorgeous gardens, sumptuously decorated bedrooms and first-rate cuisine can all be found, just a short stroll from the ‘small but perfectly formed’ Lewes town centre

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There’s a lot to see in Lewes, a town for which the phrase ‘small but perfectly formed’ could

HOTEL STYLE

❝

From the bathroom window we could see the street; from the bedroom window just miles of South Downs

have been invented. So at noon,

space! On entering it you feel

the sun high in the sky, we left

a bit like you’re in the TARDIS,

the car and our bags with the

albeit a beautifully decorated

charming fellow at reception and

one. From the bathroom window

set out for Pells Pool, a 10-minute

we could see the street; from

walk away. A glorious big, cold,

the bedroom window just miles

classic lido – the oldest one in

of South Downs.

the UK, built in 1860 – Pells is in

The bar is just the right side

excellent nick after fighting off

of buzzy, starring unsurpassable

a bid to turn it into a skateboard

service and a supporting cast of

park some years back. As I swam,

attractive, un-cliquey people. This

I reflected somewhat sourly that

carried over to the restaurant

Brighton Council would never

where ‘fine dining’ – which

have behaved so admirably – see

is too often an excuse for an

its appalling treatment of our

over-priced, over-done servile

own Saltdean Lido.

minuet of ponciness – meets

On the walk back we had a

friendliness, with a side order of

divine halloumi burger at Bill’s,

super-efficiency. My husband is a

delved into the dressing-up box at

confirmed carnivore but he was

Anne of Cleves House, wandered

so taken by the vegetarian option

through the flea market and

– asparagus, fried egg, potato

conducted a micro-pub-crawl

salad – that he went for it, while

– solely for empirical research

I made a beeline for the Rye bay

purposes – during which we

scallops and garlic mash.

dallied in some lovely watering

The dessert menu boasted a

holes including The Swan and

‘Valrhona chocolate fondant,

The Rights Of Man. But once we

salty fudge, honeycomb and

got back to Pelham House from

vanilla ice cream’ – PLEASE

our peregrination, we stayed put

ALLOW 20 MINUTES. I could

for the duration. WHAT a lovely

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knowing what a fidget I am,

or Essex, say, there’s always

didn’t want to make me wait

this element of bitterness and

around, so I steered him onto

blood-pull mingled with the real

the terrace for a cheeky fag and

affection. But because Sussex

whispered to the waitress, and

is so soft, so sexy, it attracts

when we came back 10 minutes

many wanderers who adopt

later, it stalked us straight to the

it as their own and then have

table – and a splendid thing it

all the nice feelings that come

was too. We went back outside

with belonging – security, pride;

afterwards, and, walking through

and none of the bad ones –

the gorgeous gardens featuring

smothering, resentment.’

excellent sculptures by local

Pelham House Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1UW, 01273 488600, www.pelham house.com

Later that evening, a friend

artists, looking at the endless

emailed me, teasing that Lewes is

aspect of the South Downs, I

the centre of both wife-swapping

thought of something I wrote

and witchcraft in Sussex.

some time back.

Monogamous monotheist as I am,

‘Sussex is the county which

I nevertheless re-booked Pelham

more than any other you don’t

House that same day – a first for

have to be born in to love. When

me, and surely proof of one very

you meet people from Yorkshire

happy customer indeed.

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Something IN THE AIR It attracts a variety of opinions, so Victoria Emerson heads to Crawley – via Gatwick – to see what this sprawling and diverse town has to offer

I

was curious about Crawley.

Tilgate Park is set right in the

Before embarking on my

heart of the town, so there are

explorations of the West

some incredible beauty spots.

Sussex town, my mind was

It was time to set the record

boggled with tit-bits of conflicting

straight, so one sunny spring

facts, figures and preconceptions.

weekend I headed up the A23…..

My husband is from Crawley, so

Positioned right next to

its own schools, shops and community facilities and all

I know it produces handsome

Gatwick airport, Crawley is a

varying widely in their housing

chaps and in recent years the

town whose many reinventions

stock, neighbourhood make-up

then non-league Crawley Town

over the years has seen it move up

and reputations.

FC took the footballing world by

the ranks, originally named after

storm by taking on Man Utd in

the Anglo-Saxon word meaning

planned to reflect the beautiful

the FA cup (they lost but it wasn’t

‘crow-infested clearing’, to being

countryside that surrounds it

without giving the better-known

developed as a ‘New Town’ after

and it is a combination of all of

red devils a scare), so they’re

World War II, built for people

these very careful considerations

certainly an ambitious bunch.

moving out of London. Finally

that make Crawley an ideal place

The Cure is the town’s most

it has become a thriving and

to both live and work within its

famous musical export, but then

dynamic town home to 100,000

perfect mix of countryside and

Chico also came from Crawley. Up

proud residents.

urban bliss.

All Night, the reality TV show set

Crawley is made up of a

The town was strategically

So who are these 100,000 proud

in a nightclub toilet was filmed

jigsaw of 13 different residential

residents that Crawley boasts?

in Crawley, but the magnificent

neighbourhoods, each with

Due to its location between

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Leisure Park with its 15-screen

a purpose built light and spacious

state-of-the-art cinema and 10-

nursery and even a recently built

pin bowling centre is perfect for

swimming pool.

those hard to please teenagers.

Shoppers have their own paradise in the extensive retail facilities

There’s only one problem with

at the County Mall and the town

dining in Crawley – where do

centre offers a vibrant nightlife

you choose? Aside from the usual

for the younger generation.

town centre standards such

For those wanting a quieter

as Prezzo and ASK, there are

lifestyle, head for the villages

restaurants dotted all around

set within the surrounding

Crawley satisfying every taste.

countryside. Copthorne, Pease

I’ve done the leg (or tummy) work

Pottage, Faygate, Balcombe

for you though, so here are my

and Handcross are a few of

top recommendations:

the surrounding villages, with

For Thai food look no further

properties in these areas coming

than The Giggling Squid – it is

at a premium.

sensational. The simple, rustic, fresh food of Thailand, from

Schools-wise, you really are spoilt for choice. The magnificent

street food to coastal specialties

independent Roman-Catholic

can be found right there in the

Worth School is set within

centre of Crawley. Everything

500 acres of beautiful Sussex

is cooked from scratch by

countryside and offers ‘a

authentic Thai chefs, who

complete education for young

specialise in seafood but offer

people, incorporating mind, body

a range of dishes well beyond

and spirit’. Open to both girls and

that. Make sure you don’t miss

boys between the ages of 11-18

the salt and pepper squid –

years, a majority of students are

addictive but delicious.

For Gastro pub fayre, head to

boarders, however day pupils London and Brighton, the town is an excellent commuter base.

London is approximately only

Clockwise, from left: Tilgate Park; Goffs Manor; Sofitel London Gatwick; Tulleys Farm

Gastro delights

the beautiful 16th-century Goffs

are also welcomed.

Manor, located on the edge of

In terms of primary schools, you would have to look far

Crawley. The chocolate box pub

and wide to beat Handcross

is situated next to the 50-acre

Park, which provides a broad

Goffs Park with lakes, woodland

range of opportunities for all

walks, children’s play area and

children aged 2-13 years within

model railway. It has plenty of

Airport right next door; a major

a ‘stimulating, structured and

parking, a wonderful garden area

recruiter in the area and only

flexible environment.’ With a

for the kids and a cute little duck

a 5-10-minute car journey,

50-acre estate that is certainly not

pond. What really sets it apart

depending on the time of day.

to be sniffed at, facilities include

is the quality and freshness of

a large sports hall, a music

it unpretentious traditional pub

school, extensive playing fields,

grub dishes.

30 minutes away by train, as is Brighton (both via Three Bridges station).

Then there is Gatwick

Families are very well-catered for in every aspect. Leisure-wise, Crawley is hard to beat. The quaint yet lively historic High Street offers great places to eat and drink and the Crawley

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the untrained eye, this is simply a local sports and social club, promoting an affordable way for local people to meet, enjoy live entertainment and play games.

But look closer and you’ll find the Ram Sports kitchen, which hosts specialist chefs serving up traditional and fusion Indian dishes, and take it from me, their cuisine is superb.

Put your glad rags on for…

There’s plenty in Crawley to get dressed up to the nines for.

The High Street offers a whole ‘strip’ of modern bars but in my opinion the finest is the Octopvs Bar for its colonialstyle décor and grown-up party

Hotel Gatwick, both for their

atmosphere. Newcomer The Hive

modern and extensive facilities,

Bar certainly packs a punch with

excellent reviews and the sheer

its experimental style cocktail

quality of their restaurants. The

K2 Centre offers all things

menu (try the Fiery Fordie – it

Sofitel brings you La Brasserie,

active under one roof: football

will knock your socks off) and the

which offers faultless service

and squash, climbing walls,

Hillside Inn, set out of the town

coupled with a menu full of

swimming pool, holiday activity

centre in Pound Hill, is perfect

things you want to eat; a whole

days, crèche, just for kids sports

for quaffing in an elegant vintage

new level of airport dining.

courses and even birthday parties.

setting with friends.

For something a little cosier

Above: The Nature Centre at Tilgate Park

and fishing and even a top-rate golf course for the grown-ups.

For those rainy days the

If you are a Sussex resident and

and traditional, The Copthorne

haven’t visited Tulleys Farm at

the very modern Hawth Theatre

Hotel is just a hop and a skip

some point, you haven’t lived. It is

offers a lively and very varied

away and overlooks 100 acres of

truly spectacular. Yes it is simply

programme and attracts some

tranquil woodland. The calm and

a farm offering farm-like visiting

top-class touring productions.

comfortable guest rooms, coupled

facilities (tea shop, farm shop etc),

Be sure to catch the inimitable

with the gym, swimming pool

but it’s the imaginative special

Avenue Q this June.

and squash courts all make for a

events that make it so exciting

For the thespians among us,

perfect place for some ‘R and R’.

Pamper and stay…

In the summer it hosts the ‘Giant Maize Maze’, in

Anything for little ones?

Crawley’s enviable location next

‘Shocktober’ they put on an

to Gatwick Airport means that it

Your little monkeys can be kept

interactive and immersive

benefits from scores of fabulous

as busy as you like in Crawley.

Halloween ‘Scream Park’ (recently

hotels, perfect not only for

The first port of call has to be

voted the UK’s No. 1 Halloween

those in transit to locations far

Tilgate Park, with its ‘Go Ape’

attraction) and come the festive

and wide, but also those simply

tree top adventure centre, Nature

season, the farm transforms into

visiting the area or on business.

Centre (the most wonderful little

a Winter Wonderland that is

farm that never fails to put a

simply everything the child in

smile of my niece’s face), lakes

you would dream it to be.

My picks would be the Sofitel London Gatwick and Arora

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J

ust because all the swans you’ve ever seen are white, it doesn’t mean to say there aren’t any black ones.

And that’s pretty much the same with SUVs. Most SUVs are chunky, jacked-up saloons that have

been designed to attract an audience that wants nothing more than to have bags of interior space and an imperious driving position. And that’s all well and good, as long as you’re prepared to hoist the white flag of surrender to any type of driving enjoyment.

However, there’s a new kid on the block, in the shape of

THE CAR: PORSCHE MACAN DIESEL S

the Porsche Macan, and it is all set to dispel that theory. It

PRICE £43,300

has been designed to combine a compact SUV body style,

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with the driving DNA from the 911, Boxster and Cayman.

ENGINE 3.0-litre V6 turbo diesel

So it still appeals to those who want to comfortably seat four,

POWER 254bhp

but when its on-road handling characteristics are boiled-

TRANSMISSION Seven-speed PDK, four-wheel drive

down, there’s not a finer-built machine in its class.

0-62mph 6.3 seconds

This is Porsche’s second foray into the SUV market, the

TOP SPEED 142mph

first being the Cayenne. And, on first sight, the Macan

ECONOMY/CO 2 46.3mpg/159g/km

does appear to me a mini-me version of its larger brother.

EQUIPMENT Electric tailgate

Yet, despite the obvious family resemblance, the Macan

Stop-start

is far easier on the eye (something that could never be

Electric front seats

said about the Cayenne), with more than a passing nod

7in touch screen

to its 911 heritage. It’s been beautifully crafted too, with a

Multi-function steering wheel

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It still appeals to those who want to comfortably seat four, but when its on-road handling characteristics are boiled-down, there’s not a finer-built machine in its class.

wonderful sense of quality and attention to detail, which

speed PDK transmission (fitted as standard), that pushes

is evident long before you’ve even stepped inside.

out 254bhp of power, to give it a top speed of 143mph, and

Once inside – and if it wasn’t for the raised driving position, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were at the helm of the Cayman – the sports seats and 918 Spyder-

a 0-62mph time of 6.3 seconds, yet it still manages 46.3mpg while emitting just 159g/km of CO2.

But fast and economical compact SUVs are nothing new.

inspired steering wheel create the kind of luxurious sensory

I can name several without too much thought. What makes

experience that’s akin to a chocolate body wrap.

the Macan so special is not the way it scoops up the available

Aesthetics and luxury to one side, where the Macan really

on-tap power and then effortlessly transfers it to all four of

leaves the rest of the field standing is the way it handles the

its wheels (this is a Porsche, after all, and anything less would

power. It truly is remarkable. Although there are two petrol

be a disappointment), it’s the way it makes you forget that

engines in the range – a 3.6 V6 Bi Turbo and a 3.0-litre V6 – it

a) you’re driving a diesel and b) it’s a compact SUV. Also, you

is the 3.0-litre V6 diesel, priced at just over £43,000, which is

get the feeling that it has a need to prove itself as a credible

likely to become the top-selling model. It’s a flawless piece of

member of the Porsche clan, which, ultimately, makes the

engineering, unionised to an ultra-smooth-changing seven-

Macan one of the best cars I’ve driven in a very long time.

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GIRL ON FILM Debbie Mason is the managing director of HandMade Films, the iconic British film company formed by George Harrison in the Seventies

DEBBIE MASON lives in East Preston in Brighton and has recently

production company Oil Factory and worked on numerous TV

been made managing director of HandMade Films. Together with

music shows until in 1991 I formed one of the most successful

her business partner Mike Heap she aims to bring the company

independent production companies in the UK, Kudos Productions,

that brought us film classics such as Withnail and I, Mona Lisa

with Stephen Garrett. I then went on to work at ITV, and also

and Time Bandits back to the forefront of the world’s media.

set up a joint venture with Elizabeth Murdoch, Shine Matrix, to launch PTV in the US. When I came back, I was persuaded by

How did you get to where you are today?

my now business partner to get involved with the turnaround

With a lot of hard work, passion and dedication. I was the original

of HandMade – it was a dream come true!

wild child – I dropped out of school having achieved numerous ‘O’ Levels and discovered I wanted to be working. I started life

What are the big differences between film production today

in the film world as a projectionist in an advertising agency in

and, say, 20 years ago?

Knightsbridge and from there worked my way up, from telecine

Today I no longer consider a script as purely for film. I look at

operator to assistant film editor. My first credit was on The Great

HandMade and its intellectual property as brands in their own

Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (the Sex Pistols film) as a producer’s PA, and

right, and evaluate how they best work in the transmedia world.

I worked my way up to being a producer. I set up the Eurythmics’

There are so many different ways you can distribute your content

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The HandMade ethos is to find and help fund projects that are UK-centric. We want to nurture and give guidance to young British talent and help them in their careers What are your plans for the future Clockwise from far left: Withnail and I; The Long Good Friday; Debbie Mason; Time Bandits poster artwork

of the business?

To put HandMade right back where it belongs as the iconic British brand with the most seminal catalogue of films. Whoever you talk to in any field of life, there is an astonishing love for the name HandMade and we must cherish and celebrate that.

What kind of films will the company be planning on making?

Original and British – and not just film, we are looking at content for all media.

Any sneak previews especially for our readers?

There has only been one The Long

Good Friday, one Time Bandits, one Withnail and I and one Mona Lisa…

So watch this space! but ironically one of the major problems with the film industry

Which is your favourite HandMade film?

now is actually getting distribution on the big screen. Also TV is

This is a very hard question – so many have such unique qualities.

now doing so many interesting dramas and really pushing the

Time Bandits is a work of absolute genius. Withnail and I is

boundaries, with the likes of Breaking Bad and The Killing, that

probably the most quoted ‘student’ film, it’s word perfect and

more and more talent is focussing on the small screen and other

performance perfect. Mona Lisa is a very dark and complex piece

new digital platforms.

of film. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an exceptional film and if you haven’t watched it you should – it’s a great love story.

Tell us a bit more about your involvement with Handmade…

My aim at HandMade is to be the guardian of its original ethos,

Any advice for budding producers?

which is to find and help fund projects that are particularly UK-

It is all in the script! It always takes longer than you can ever

centric. We want to nurture and give guidance to young British

imagine so keep knocking on those doors and it will happen.

talent and help them in their careers. You only have to look at

Don’t let the ego get the better of you.

the HandMade back catalogue and see the fabulous talent it has launched over the years – stars such as Bob Hoskins, Helen

What’s the best thing about your job?

Mirren, Richard E Grant, to name just a few….

Working in the media industry is not as glamorous as everyone thinks; it is hard work, it is challenging, you are dealing with

What’s been the toughest thing about taking this on?

multiple levels from finance, legal, artists, writers, technology

Sorting out the corporate side of things! That is what I love about

and, when filming, even down to what the weather will be like

my job – I mix my creative skills with my business acumen – and

tomorrow! It is never dull and it is never the same – you need

that is what every great producer needs to do.

to be tough and you need to be passionate!

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recently thrown in the towel on Facebook for exactly that reason.

You can’t log on without seeing endless pictures of people’s faces or their lunches and I for whole thing. It’s not just boring though, I think it’s actually pretty sad. I wonder how many people actually bother to sit down and read a whole article in a magazine any more.

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ABUSE As people go to even more ridiculous lengths to draw attention to themselves on social media sites, are we becoming a nation of narcissists? asks Daniel Raven

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Every single take the place of fans, person who passed you on the street would have their own and are presumed to views about your work, personal life and/or haircut and want equally regular many would feel no compunction about airing them, but updates on every aspect you’d never have any comeback.

They might all be secret of their idol’s existence, cannibals or sock fetishists but you’d never get a chance to along with photos of call them on it because, unlike you, they’d still have their everything from their privacy. Who on earth sex partner to their would want a life like that? repulsive pie and mash.

The simple, one-word And people are going answer is narcissists. The to situation ever more ridiculous lengths I’ve just described would to win social media approval: suit most narcissists down to the pulling dangerous stunts ground, because external à la ‘planking’, driving validation of their own trains so fast supreme that they cause massive importance tends to be accidents, dying under one of their very favourite anaesthetic things. during cosmetic surgery And it wouldn’t bother that was specifically motivated them one bit if they were only ‘famous a desire by for being famous’, because to look better in ‘selfies’ (yes, I am still putting being well-liked is actually quote far marks around that)... And less important to a narcissist all this, in many cases, to than being well-known. curry Sadly, favour with people they though, the old fame game don’t know and will never is so over-subscribed these meet. days It doesn’t help, of course, that even really talented that so many of the genuinely bigheads can sometimes struggle to famous so often set them make their mark – and such stupid examples. that’s where social media Miley Cyrus’ comes in. weirdly frantic exhibitionism, Sites such as Facebook Lady Gaga’s crazy-ass and Twitter are like catnip outfits for (and indeed, in many cases, her crazy ass) and Pharrell’s big In an age when a thumbnail stupid hat would almost certainly never have happened is all you have in with which to make an quite the same way were it not for the existence impression, pointless of social media. In an age when but eye-catching gimmickry a thumbnail is sometimes is king all you have with which to make an impression, pointless but eye14 | WWW.SUSSEXSTY

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catching gimmickry is king, and if you’re the first person on the web to do something, it MUST be cool – even if it looks dead stupid. But at least the famous narcissists are getting richly rewarded for their public humiliation; what’s supposed to be in it for the rest of them, eh?

Ah. Well, I suppose I should probably interrupt myself at this point to say I do accept that not all the fruits of the social media revolution have been bitter buggers.

Quite apart from the fact that it’s been a significant driver of social and political progress in many parts of the world, it’s also genuinely improved the lives of thousands of perfectly sensible people in this country alone who just wanted to make a few like-minded friends.

There’s nothing wrong with that! (Hell, I’d probably even have given it a go myself, if I wasn’t convinced that I have too few interests to make a decent Facebook page and would be too much of a cry-baby for Twitter...)

And, you know, we could probably even go as far as to say that it’s performing a valuable public service by keeping narcissists occupied in a way that drastically reduces their chances of having any impact on the real world. I don’t know, though... I think I actually feel a bit sorry for them.

It all looks so tiring, for one thing. Having to constantly worry about what’s hot, what’s not, who your friends are and where your next ‘selfie’ is going to be taken must be the next worst thing to having a full-time job in PR, with the crucial difference that there’s no money in it and you know from the outset that nobody’s ever going to be even half as interested in the product/talent/y ou as you are. The only times anyone should ever have to sell themselves are at job interviews and on first dates, yet these poor suckers spend half their lives doing it – and the harder they try to sell themselves, the more they give away.

Sadder still is the fact that if any of them did somehow manage to join the ranks of the genuinely famous, you just know they’d only screw it up by getting all depressed and moaning about how they now felt like the world had them at a disadvantage (just look at Robbie Williams!).

The sense of validation a narcissist gains from finally becoming king of the heap is no less fleeting than it would be for a much smaller triumph (humiliating a waiter, say), so even if one of them should succeed in proving that they have more objective grounds for happiness than any of their peers, the only thing they can ever do for an encore is to start competing over who can be the most miserable instead.

There’s a disadvantage, if you like...!

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A host of famous names, a raised for a very worthwhile fabulous disco and a staggering amount of money cause – the first End Of event was an amazing success PHOTOS EMMA JANE

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eld at the end of April in the Hove Centre, End Of was an exciting, emotional event held to raise money for RISE, a domestic violence charity covering the South East. Stars lined up to support the event, with performance s from Alison Moyet, Caitlin Moran, Tracey Thorn, Suzanne Moore, Jackie Clune, Linda Lewis and so many more.

The organising committee comprised of Julie Burchill – who had the idea for the whole event – actress Julie Graham, film director Astrid Edwards and our own editor, Sam Founder Julie Harrington-Lowe.

Burchill was on the Other key teamsters, without whom door in full regalia the event would have been impossible, included stage manager Jemma Last, PR guru Caraline Brown and co-founder Naomi Stanley, plus a special mention for sound and lights

by Richard Chamberlain and Ben Caro, awesome sound engineer Matt Ryan, and End Of shutterbug Julia Claxton.

Sussex Style supported the event throughout the planning and the team were there in full force on the night!

We are delighted to report that the event raised over £13,000 for the charity, with donations still rolling in. We thought we’d bring you a Jackie Clune taste of the event with wowed the crowd our photos from the night. ›› with her voice

Rise CEO Gail Gray spoke movingly about the work the charity performs

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From left: Tracey Thorn, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Suzanne Moore, Mark Wood, Caitlin Moran

Sussex Style’s Seán Kane and Richard Judd were thrilled to meet the wonderful Ann Mitchell

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SADDLE SORE DANIEL RAVEN EXPERIENCES PAVEMENT RAGE…

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iding a bike on the pavement is a bit like running

– I expect he’s just AFRAID of the CARS...’

with scissors: you might be convinced that there’s

I wouldn’t actually blame anyone for being too scared to

no chance of an accident, because as far as you’re

ride a bike along a main road because I feel exactly the same

concerned it really is just a matter of putting one

way, and this has always been a big factor in me not trying

foot in front of the other, but don’t be too surprised if anyone

to do it. But the sheer, belief-beggaring number of times I’ve

who happens to be around while you’re doing it starts to look

seen cyclists on the pavement when the road beside them

a bit uncomfortable – if not positively jittery.

was completely clear suggests that the real cause of this

Around 20 people a year are seriously injured by cyclists riding on Britain’s pavements. Present a militant cyclist with that statistic and they’ll generally scoff, ‘That’s nothing

behaviour must lie elsewhere, in the murky backwaters of their subconscious minds.

Maybe the act of perching, unprotected, on a thin chunk

compared to the number of people who get hit by cars.’ And,

of metal that basically just wants to fall over, while sports

to some extent, I can see their point: it clearly is a much lower

cars and juggernauts screech and howl around you day after

number. But it’s not nothing – it’s 20 people whose lives will

day, can do such weird things to your soul that you end up

be ruined forever because some cyclist felt the need to make

feeling as though it would only be redressing the balance to

like a pedestrian.

And just why do they feel that need? Does anyone know? Brighton in particular now has more cycle lanes than ever, and traffic flow is – perhaps not unsurprisingly –

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hop onto the pavement and spend

Maybe the act of perching, unprotected, on a thin chunk of metal that wants to fall over, while cars screech around you, can do weird things to your soul

some time being the menace instead of the menaced for a change... or maybe the poor loves are just responding to the fact that so many of our cycle lanes actually require

the slowest it’s ever been. Yet still I see clown after clown

them to mount the pavement by absent-mindedly doing so

mounting the pavement as if it’s their only hope of survival,

whenever their minds are not fully on the job. But if you, as a

frightening the elderly and/or infirm and making the rest of

cyclist, ever get to the stage where you’re doing either of these

us feel more than a little bit nervous.

things, might it not be time to start thinking about the bus?

I always used to tut or mutter a tart ‘Get on the bloody

Of course, it shouldn’t be long before we’re all allowed to

road!’ whenever I encountered this, but having witnessed a

get mobility scooters regardless of whether we’re ill or not,

cyclist try to start an actual fight with someone for making

and I confidently predict that we’ll also be able to kit them

a similar remark on Hove seafront recently has made me

out with ‘warning’ wheel spikes as per the chariot race in Ben

slightly more cautious: these days I only ever comment if

Hur. Until that day comes, though, let’s please just show each

accompanied, and then only to loudly whisper, ‘Never mind

other a little consideration, eh...?

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