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

Tilling Green quick to join in

Tilling Green Residents Association is the first organisation in...

Day and night parking issues

Car parking issues are as relevant in the evening as they are during the day, writes Paul Barker

Candlelit carols at East Guldeford

The annual candlelit carol service will be held at St...

Parkers watch out . . .

Patrols by police in Rye's citadel continue to be...

Loading bay work to start

Work on the new loading bay in Rye High...

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