GLASTONBURY founder Michael Eavis left his famed cows in good hands as he travelled to Brighton to see his granddaughter graduate.

Hannah Eavis, from Somerset, received her BA(Hons) in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton at the Brighton Centre yesterday.

Her rock n roll grandad, 81, said: “I’m a very proud grandfather today and it was great looking at a different stage.

“Hannah is in the throes of getting a job with a well-known fashion house and I have little doubt she will be a name to reckon with.

“Watch out – this girl is going places.”

Hundreds of students graduated yesterday and a number of notable names also received honorary degrees.

Bert Williams MBE, who has been the driving force behind Brighton and Hove Black History for the last couple of decades, was made a Doctor of Letters.

Mr Williams first set foot in Brighton in the 1960s when he visited his two sisters who had come over from Jamaica to work at Brighton General Hospital.

He returned in 1967 after serving in the RAF and has been a resident ever since.

He worked for the NHS for the next 26 years until retiring in 1992 and went on to chair a local group – Mosaic – for black and mixed-race families.

He also organised the Chattri Memorial service on the Sussex Downs, which commemorates Indian soldiers who fought during the First World War.

He joined hundreds of graduates yesterday at the Brighton Centre who celebrated finishing their studies in the city.

They heard from keynote speaker Siobhan Melia, chief executive officer at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

Ms Melia has worked in the NHS for over 18 years in a range of roles having obtained her postgraduate degree from the University of Brighton.

Renowned artist Jake Chapman also received an honorary Doctor of Arts yesterday. Mr Chapman, whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Tate Britain, in New York, St Petersburg and Paris, was recognised for his major contribution to the arts and re-imagining of history and popular culture.

He is one half of the Chapman Brothers, artists who graduated from Royal College of Art in 1990 and were nominated for the Turner prize in 2003.

Their subject matter is deliberately shocking including, in 2008, a series of works that appropriated original watercolours by Adolf Hitler.

Graduation ceremonies will continue for the rest of the week with more than 4,000 students from around the world.