Monthly Archives: December, 2014
My High Street gift guide
From Boudoir Bible, to dyed pink doggies, this is my guide to Christmas shopping on Rye High Street
Mapp and Lucia TV times
The fun that was had when the filming of Mapp and Lucia took place will be replicated in the lead up to 2015. As director Diarmuid Lawrence said "We seem to have captured summer in a bottle". Forget the age of Sagittarius this will be the age of Campricorn!
Beachcombers clean up
More than 50 volunteers joined in a beach-cleaning exercise at Winchelsea Beach on Saturday and collected bags and bags of detritus
If this is in your rear view mirror. . .
As part of Sussex Police's drink and drug-drive campaign...
More money for flood defences
The Rye Emergency Action Community Team welcomes the Chancellor's announcement about funding for flood defence projects to protect high-risk areas and 300,000 homes
Not me, not me, not me . . .
It was a festive meet-your-MP evening: mince pies and a bout of serious thinking. Debate focused on the three most important issues facing Rye. Amber Rudd impressed. Rye councillors didn't. But then how could they? Most of them didn't turn up. John Howlett reflects on Amber, accountability and absentees
Mayor averts Xmas shops headache
The first stage of long-awaited work on Rye's historic Landgate tower will involve the closure of the one-way system for up to three days, so the town's mayor has asked for the clean-up operation to be put on ice until after Christmas
Day and night parking issues
Car parking issues are as relevant in the evening as they are during the day, writes Paul Barker