Rye News

Rye Sports Centre is going into the red this Friday, but it is all in a good cause

Healthy living and fun mixed into one event as you are invited to find a healthy lifestyle and join relevant groups next week

Jessica has had all her hair shaved off to raise money for charity. Queen's Head staff joined in, with a particularly unusual depilation

A recent spate of apparently trivial thefts has been tracked to the door of one woman who has turned (unwittingly) to crime

Open doors, open minds. Hastings mosque is welcoming visitors to see what really goes on

Canine Partners gave a talk to Rye veterans and members of the public about how dogs can perfom an extraordinary range of tasks to help people with disabilities lead independent lives

Spare a few seconds to support Rye's Community Garden which needs funds to pay its annual insurance premium from a chocolate backer

The hospital volunteer team receive the recognition they deserve

A new exhibition in Smallhythe promises a feast for the eyes

Shrove Tuesday, AKA Mardi Gras, AKA Fat Tuesday, is your chance to indulge before embarking on your Lenten fasting. Hastings offers a lot more than pancakes. Get some soul food and join in with the street celebrations - particularly if you had a "dry January" after your Christmas boozing

The weeks featured film by the Rye Community Centre Film Club is Woman in Gold. Based on a true story, this film follows octogenarian Jewish refugee Maria Altmann’s struggle with the Austrian government in trying to recover a valuable painting stolen from her family by the Nazis during the Second World War. . .

An exciting performance as local musician and friends launch new CD

Find out about old rural ways at the museum

A local campaigner is now heading up advice services in Hastings and East Sussex

The new home for Rye Community Shop is up and running and local MP Amber Rudd came along to check out the bargains

Very large numbers of boxes of supplies for desperate refugees needed to be moved from Rye - and help was forthcoming

Litter picking will start up with a campaign for the Queen

Sixties time at the Milligan to raise hospital funds - rattle and roll with live music, fish and chips and a Lindy Hop

Back in December Rye Dance Centre was Down In The Woods with a much acclaimed show. Now they are back on the boards with a Super Duper performance at the White Rock theatre in Hastings

Olde Worlde Wines echoed to the clink of, not wine, but gin glasses on Thursday as the sloe gin competition got under way. And the winner was . . .