Monthly Archives: June, 2015

"Some of us have seen the ghosts in our car headlights –/ the coffins and the bodies, the pirates and their victims./ You might even have heard a screaming at midday/ or in the night". The narrow lanes and alleys of Rye can be scary at times.........

East Sussex County Council say patients will be able to access Rye's hospital and medical centre despite roadworks, but do not say how. Local lanes are dangerous, and the council says it will block them off. But what is the alternative? ESCC have no answers to questions they never got round to asking. Charles Harkness reports

This weeks featured movie showing at the Rye Kino is Man Up (pictured), Meet Nancy: 34, single (still), hung-over (again), and exhausted by the endless futile set ups foisted upon her by well-meaning but clueless friends. As she travels across London to toast another 10 years of her parent’s blissfully happy marriage, 40-year-old, freshly-hatched divorcee Jack mistakes her for his 24-year-old blind date... For all this and more follow the link..

Many Vodaphone customers in Rye have been experiencing erratic service for some weeks. This has now been traced to an intermittent problem with the mast in Playden. Nick Taylor investigates

Landgate Women’s Institute (WI) hosted a Vintage Fair, to...

Glorious weather helped Winchelsea attract a record number of...

The county council closes the road past Rye's hospital for two weeks - but seems to have no idea how many patients will be affected, or how many cars use the site. Charles Harkness from Rye News went up the hill, and counted the cars in, and counted them out, so ESCC know how many lives their actions will affect. And the Town Council will keep protesting and asking questions about the county council's apparently ill-thought-out plans

The Mayor, Town Clerk, Deputy Mayor, Councillors and Mace...

The annual Rockabilly Rave takes place in Camber over a five day period this weekend at Pontin's holiday park with thousands of participants celebrating at this 1950s music and lifestyle event.

Music from opera and the musicals is the theme of "Some Enchanted Evening - Music for Midsummer", a concert to be held at Playden church on June 20. The same weekend also sees Playden open gardens with both events aiming at raising funds for repairs to Playden church spire

Yet again Rother District Council demonstrate that they appear to regard Rye as a milch cow from whom money can be extracted but to whom only the minimal of service need be given. The cricket club are the latest to suffer, this time due to the inefficiencies of the Building Control Department

Following the failure of the now-defunct football club to obtain the correct building certificate, Rother Building Control have refused permission for the new owners, Rye Cricket Club, to use the bar and club room