A more joyful, less pretentious occasion it would be hard to find. It's the second Sunday in the month, the day when a tiny cafe encourages classic car owners to come and park up, wander around and have a chat. The Riverview Cafe occupies the old coal merchant's office - it's the only remnant of Forest Row's rail station on the London to Lewes line. It may be small, but the interior is covered with posters ...

‘Everybody said we were mad!’ laughs Cathie Hubert of the Ashdown Gallery ‘We started a village art gallery in the middle of a recession!’ Two years later she and co-founder Mette Udsholt run a thriving business in Foreset Row, East Sussex and next week launch an exhibition by David Hensel, an artist so collectible that his work is now being acquired by the V & A. The show opens on the 5th October when ...