Monthly Archives: May, 2015
Bringing art to the factory
Famous artist Paul Nash, who lived in Rye, Iden and Dymchurch at various times and was a war artist in both world wars, featured in a talk for the Friends of Rye Art Gallery on World War Two posters. Friends Chair Paddy Harvey reports
Bonfire Boyes to mark VE Day
Fireworks will light up the sky over Winchelsea again, just as they did 70 years ago on VE Day
Calling all knitters to act
Are you a knitwit? Or would you like to hang out with sew and sews? If so, you town needs you. Get those needles twinkling and help Iraqi refugees in need
Prelude to 2015 jazz festival
Ian Bowden, director of the Rye International Jazz Festival, held a party at Rye Retreat on Thursday April 30 to launch the Patron and Friend membership and event sponsorship programmes and announce some of the musicians who will appear at this year's spectacular event. Tony McLaughlin reports
District candidates questioned
District Council candidates met the people of Winchelsea in the run-up to this Thursday's election - and a popular question was 'who runs Rother ?' But the hustings also covered parking, planning and listed buildings. Richard Comotto reports
College fire disrupts exams
A mystery fire broke out on the first floor of Rye College on Tuesday, shortly after the end of GCSE exams for the day. Further exams have been postponed while the extent of the damage is established
A green elephant in the room
Talk about the elephant in the room. Have you noticed it during the election campaign? Sitting there in the corner with a rather puzzled look on its face. The elephant is the subject of environmental policies and it seems to have been ignored, even by the Green Party
Mayday, Mayday!
Morris dancers welcomed May Day in Rye Harbour on a chilly morning before moving on to Rye
Sailing club bakes off
Time to get baking and enter next Saturday's (May 9) Rye Harbour Sailing Club 'Bake Off' and win yourself a prize. The event is being staged in conjunction with People Tree to support World Fair Trade Day and in particular, to raise money to help Bombolulu Workshops in Mombasa, Kenya
Rye ‘could become an island’
A packed St Mary’s church took part in a general election hustings, hearing from the candidates for the Hastings and Rye constituency. Deprivation, renewable energy and fishing quotas emerged as key and common issues. Hastings and Rye is a key target for the Labour in the forthcoming election. Seana Lanigan reports