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Consultants say "High Speed" rail links will make this area less remote - but do commuters or holiday lets do more damage to the community? What do you think?

Being an online newspaper has its good points. One is automatic alerts telling you what's in this week's issue. Another is the ability to "answer back" - and readers are doing so

The end of the plastic bag? Maybe not yet but there is a case against their use and alternatives are available

Preparations are well in hand for next month's bonfire pageant - but burning the boats seems to have a much longer history than Guy Fawkes

This penny farthing needs some tender loving care, and funds are being raised for the purpose

A new report claims the local economy will benefit if high speed trains to Ashford run through to Rye and on to Hastings and Bexhill. But what is the timetable for this to happen?

Blankets, knitted by local ladies and visitors were blessed at the Harvest Festival service at St Mary’s. And they will soon be on their way . . . but to where?

What will you have to pay for soon that was free before? And should you have to pay? And is the answer in the bag?

Suddenly a "doggy bag" takes on a whole new dimension and, in a town deep in dogs, it may be a solution to one of autumn's challenges....scaffolding.

A local peace campaigner has been jailed despite claiming that his tax was being used to pay for illegal wars

The infamous and fraudulent "missing link" and fossil-hunting featured in a talk in Iden

Rye friends, gourmets and gastronomes are delighted by the news that a well known and much missed couple are returning to a Rye restaurant. But who? And where?

The Lord Lieutenant was in Rye Town Hall to present medals. Read on...

Rye & District Lions free prostate cancer checks proved very popular last Saturday

This October in Fixtures. The first of the autumn high tides spilled water over the edge of the Quay, as John Minter reported and October's...

Want to show off your talent? Win a prime Christmas slot on the Town Hall stage? Help raise money for a very special Rye day ? Read on

One year on, and after a load of bird excrement, Rother Council seems to want to wash its hands of Rye's historic Landgate - but who will step in, and how can it be used? The Mayor appealed last year for "Friends of the Landgate" to come forward. Details of the renovation costs are about to be revealed

Rother District Council apparently want to get rid of the Landgate. It will cost too much to fix after years of neglect. Is "Rye at war" an answer ? Tell us your ideas

Bashing the Conquest is no way forward as they struggle with underfunding says the chairman of the Friends of Rye Hospital