Life locked in a miserable marriage with no money got too much for Mary Ann Geering. She poisoned to death her husband and two of her sons with arsenic and mercury and attempted to murder a third son. To the end she denied that her crimes had been motivated by the money she received on…

The river Medway forms the county boundary and cuts right through Groombridge. A mighty clout from the cricket pitch would be Kent’s problem, not Sussex’s. Old Groombridge lies in Kent but East Sussex can lay claim to a heroine in the community which has grown around the railway station. The late Julie Tullis was a…

The Glyndebourne Opera House is just over the parish boundary in Ringmer, but over the years it is the name of Glynde that has become synonymous with opera so let’s cheat a little. As a world famous centre for that art, the al fresco champagne picnics on golden summer lawns have become just as much…