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Monthly Archives: November, 2016

Wiping away the music

Plenty of music is coming to the 'Wipers' over the next few weeks

A whale of a time in Rye Harbour

It was a crafty weekend at Rye Harbour's Avocet Gallery and village hall for the Christmas Fair

Christmas is here at St Mary’s

A busy time for one building this weekend - with a charities fair, a Christmas concert and the singing of the American national anthem - while elsewhere there are mince pies, mulled wine and rum cocktails

Recycle Swap Shop – a clear out!

Another successful recycling event at the Swap Shop

Fabulous fun at the Fair

Great Dixter's Christmas Fair was a great success this year, with more people through the door

Let’s go to the movies!

Allied is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard

Foreign wine? Drink English!

English wine - including vineyards around Rye - has made great advances over the years and, argues Simon Wright, can now compete with the best from abroad

A dentist and refugees

What is life like in a Greek refugee camp? Kyriacos Hajikakou illustrates here some of the challenges facing the camp organisers, the refugees and the voluntary teams that help service them

Calmer New Road traffic hope

New Road residents are well on the way towards making their stretch of the A259 safer

Bowler Crab Theatre plays Lear

If anyone claims to be bored by the Bard, they should get immersed in this play, regarded by many as his greatest tragedy

Rail partnership on track

The Sussex Community Rail Partnership's role is to connect people and the railway, a task made more difficult by the rail strikes in recent months

The Salts to be greener sooner

Following the intense heat generated by the Rye Bonfire...

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