A group of Worthing artists and businesses are backing ambitious plans to rebuild London's Skylon - but think it would look better on Worthing seafront than its previous home on London's South Bank.

The Skylon was the iconic landmark at the centre of the 1951 Festival of Britain, and its 300 foot high rocket shape was a dramatic, futuristic addition to London's post-war skyline. Architects and artists are hoping to rebuild the Skylon to mark the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain in 2011, and have launched a national 'Rebuild The Skylon' campaign.

In a 15 year career, Eliza Carthy has worked with the likes of Paul Weller, Joan Baez and Nick Cave. The daughter of folk legends Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, she's undoubtedly a folk superstar � with seven BBC Folk Awards under her belt already. But she's twice been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize without winning, and has never quite achieved mainstream success.

'Dreams of Breathing Underwater' might win her that missing Mercury Prize, and might just see her crack the mainstream too.

It's a staggering work � easily the best in her long career.

It's tough, being in a successful band. You have to tour the world, spending time on tour buses, planes and in hotel rooms. It's a life that's highly regimented, organised by tour managers who keep their artists to a strict schedule of travel, soundchecks, rehearsals and concerts, the timetable broken occasionally by the excitement of TV appearances, radio sessions and press interviews.

Echo and the Bunnymen keyboard player Paul Fleming turned the experience of one world tour into an album. Recording on a laptop with whatever instruments were to hand, he created an album that's as atmospheric as you'd expect from an ex-Bunnyman. It's also named after a notorious pub in  Liverpool, hometown to the 80s band.

Baltic Fleet was inspired directly by that world tour, from Boston and Barcelona to Berlin and back to Brighton. It was written in moments stolen from a strict schedule, and then refined in a studio where Fleming worked with Klaxons producer Nick Terry

This isn't the first time I have been misinformed by the way the Hayward markets its shows. 'Artists take on architecture' was the strap line and I expected architectural designs and models with a twist, but what we found was a poorly presented 6th Form End of Year Show (no disrespect to 6th formers intended).

There appeared to be no flow to the works, rooms filled with whatever would fit. No thought in to how these were presented or how access was to be achieved. Michael Beutler's [Awaiting Title] 2008 was paper mesh maze that looked like it's reason of existence was decided with hindsight, as opposed to a having a creative force behind it. Do Ho Suh's Staircase -V and Mike Nelson's To The Memory of HP Lovecraft looked to me as they were included due to their ability to create as opposed to their creative ability.

Burgess Hill: Waterson Carthy, Rob Halligan, Gareth Davies-Jones, Julie Hall

It was a great coup for Fairtrade fundraisers in Burgess Hill to attract folk supergroup Waterson Carthy to the Martlets Hall, and a healthy crowd turned up to hear some of the classic performers from the UK folk scene.

However much music you already have, there will always be something missing from your collection. And the John Baker Tapes fill a gap you didn't know you had.

John Baker was a pioneer of British electronic music, a cult hero on one hand (rumoured to have contributed electronic sound effects to the Beatles film 'Help!') � but also somebody whose music is instantly familiar to anyone of a certain age. If you watched the BBC from the early 60s to the late 70s, some of this will sound familiar.

Because Baker was a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, experimenting with early attempts at multitrack recording, pre-synthesiser weirdness and strange electronic noises. The workshop is best known for the Dr Who theme and other science fiction soundscapes, but they produced masses of music. And 50 years on, the music Baker made for news programmes, radio stations, documentaries and dramas is being released on two CDs. As well as rare BBC recordings, there are cuts from Baker's home recordings and his experiments as a jazz musician.

Worthing Pavilion: On the Bus with Harry Hill, Paul Zenon and Lee Mack

It's relatively rare that you see modern day stars of comedy and entertainment offering their services for free in aid of a refreshingly old school charity venture.

"The mouse did seem to be waiting: instead of scampering into the darkness it held itself almost completely still, except for small attentive movements of its ears and the constant trembling of its whiskers."

On the run from Urizen's henchmen, the children undertake a hazardous underground journey. At the bottom of a frozen cavern, they find out more about one of the clue cards.

If you're planning to spend any time in the county this summer, the books from the 'A Sussex Guide' series by Snake River Press should be essential companions.

The series runs to more than a dozen titles so far, and every one is delicious. The books are pocket-sized, with brown card sleeves wrapped in dusty-shaded dust-jackets.

'20 Sussex Walks' has been written by Pat Bowen, a former A-level tutor whose students were always delighted by a teaching style that took in storytelling and performance, world folklore and local legends. Bowen has been walking the county since 1969, and in this walking guide her voice is strong; �look out for the flock of rare Bagot goats who live here... but if you do not see them you can take comfort from the story that goats regularly disappear to visit the devil to have their beards trimmed.� Each walk is sub-titled � 'Woods and Water', 'Scramble and Clamber', and 'Wild Brooks and Riverside' for example; and all are graded from easy to challenging.

Speech with Humans - Glen Baxter, Clark Coolidge (Arc Publications, �9.99)

It's only taken 26 years for this book to come out, so good things clearly come to those who wait. Or eventually get around to it.