Rye News

The manageress of the Rye Community Shop laments the parting of the ways with ARRCC and the shop's closure

The recent completion and opening of the cycleway along Harbour Road led to comments on the dangers to motorists - and a reader has taken the matter up with East Sussex County Council... quoting the government's own manual!

If you bump into a man wearing a blueish, but cuddleish, wild boar's head with white wobbly tusks in your local, do not let your dogs panic. It's only Ollie publicising Wild Boar Week coming up later this month

Why did nurserymen and women come from all over Europe, to join with local specialist nurseries for a long weekend at a famous house with beautiful gardens of its own, and end up attracting over 2,000 people. Gillian Roder gets her fingers green to tell the story

David T Procter is a man with a past, as the lists of past mayors in Rye's Town Hall shows and he dips into that past - to write a historical novel and a very modern detective tale. . . .and how much has really changed between the 1770s and the 2010s?

For the National Citizen Service social action, a team of Studio School students organised donations for a Charity Fashion Auction. Read on about NCS (and the Auction, of course) - and who donated

An exhibition of exceptionally high standard took place over the weekend in Iden parish’s diminutive, but beautifully refurbished Old Hall next to the Church....

Bond was back in town at the Queens Head as the Rye Bay Crew served, cooked and sang for their supper at a special theme night...... and will be back at the Kino shortly in "Spectre"

Our local fields and woods (and all the photos show "finds" within six miles of Rye) can contain a feast or lingering death... John Howlett both encourages, but warns.....

Soon there will be a parade to the Town Hall and St Mary's for the Remembrance Service - but how much do we know about, or remember at all, when Rye was in the front line and in the centre of two crucial aerial battles?

Three exhibitions staged during the Rye Arts Festival continue at the Rye Art Gallery until October 25 featuring leading local artists, mixed media from local textile artists and an Art Deco retrospective

Rambling round Ramsgate, what lessons can we learn about conserving glorious architecture and having to depend too much on tourism? This special report is from Allan Downend

This week's featured film showing at the Rye Kino from Friday October 9 is "A Walk in the Woods". In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (pictured above with Robert Redford) challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find is anything but . . . For more details and trailers of this and other movies showing in Rye follow the link

Last week saw the end of Rye Partnership's Rural Employability Project. Gina Sanderson reports. Some services continue, but "signing on" gets harder

Local groups can go wild with help from the Lottery and London's Kew Gardens if they have good ideas for improving communal spaces with native wild flowers

It's centenary time - so let's invite 100 people to a party and let the ukuleles play. Read on . . .

Oyez, oyez. Town Crier meets duck - but there are many more little yellow ducks bobbing around in the river. What is going on?

Mixing multiple dogs, a cat, rodents and a bemused tortoise in a confined space could have been a recipe for disaster at the pet blessing service at St Mary's. Read on...

Badly affected by the December 2013 floods, the visitor centre at the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve faces a brighter future

On Sunday October 4 Rye Bay under 9s football team faced Robertsbridge. U9s manager Ali Macdonald reports on this match and and Dan Lake reports on the under 13s game