Monthly Archives: September, 2015

One man’s view of Festival

Charlie Cobb is the first Artist in Residence at the Rye Arts Festival and has been sketching both around the town and at many of the events

Charity to lose their shop

Stories and photos in Rye News over the past two years have shown a range of local organisations benefitting from the fundraising done in this shop - but now it is suddenly coming to an end.

Dad’s Army’s early days

What links "Dad's Army" (the Local Defence Volunteers) with the 3rd Battalion Cinque Ports Volunteers, who were on duty at the East Street Museum to publicise the latest exhibition which celebrates a bi-centenary?

Hospital called ‘inadequate’

Hastings' Conquest Hospital, part of the larger East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, has been put into special measures by the Chief Inspector of Hospitals. But some of its deep-rooted problems seem to be common across the NHS. Finding beds when patients are fit to leave is one. Finding staff is another. Pressures from a growing and ageing population another. Our Opinion page features a view on how to tackle some of these issue

Counting the cost of Calais

The problems in Calais this summer have had a significant effect on the local tourist trade and the Rye Heritage Centre is just one of many businesses that have suffered

War started, they changed

Rye Art Gallery sponsored the Arts Festival talk "A Crisis of Brilliance" about a book describing the influence on five famous artists (including Paul Nash who lived locally) of friendships made young and of their tempestuous artistic and personal lives afterwards

Dark, decadent, delirious.

Miss Rae takes us on a whirlwind tour of some events you may have missed out with the whirl of Arts Festival activities - from Hamlet as you have never seen it before to cabaret definitely for the grown ups and to Rye Art Gallery's current exhibitions

Three ghosts unite in East St

Three ghosts haunted an East Street pub, now gone - but only recently closed. One may have been murdered, another drowned. David Russell reports on the haunting - and the steps taken to get rid of things that wandered abroad in the night

Using his loaf

For two years, insiders have been enjoying fresh, home cooked delicious bread, distributed through informal networks. Rye News opens the oven door

And flowers fell on Iden

The Iden and Playden Garden Society - one of the oldest in the area - held its annual flower and produce show last weekend - and the flowers were very much to the forefront

Battlefields we cannot see

As Arts festival visitors set off on "A walk through World War Two Rye" they are gazing across two battlefields which have virtually vanished from sight - though one re-appeared this week, and will be commemorated on Sunday

Unforgettable St Anthony’s

Saturday, 12 September, was an unforgettable day for me...

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