Rye News

The ladies showed the way on Saturday's race in good conditions. The men had more of a trial on Sunday

Just before 2:00 pm Thursday October 1 the train to Ashford hit a person at the foot crossing near the Windmill. The person was...

This is apparently just one fifteenth of the riders attempting "Le Tour de Rye et Romney Marsh" this week, who all faced a difficult challenge - or a helping hand - depending on whether your glass is half empty or half full

Rye Bay under nines kick off the new season - but Rye News can't publish the scoreline. Puzzled ? Read on.

Icklesham 1st Xl were looking to continue their winning ways as they entertained Bexhill AAC in the Wisdens Sports Challenge Cup and the 2nd Xl were away to Parkfield in the Eastbourne Coach Finishers Challenge Cup. David Mayne Reports.

Clear skies and a brisk wind, as well as a passing lifeboat and near misses, guaranteed exciting sailing conditions for the fifth race in the Rye Harbour Sailing Club's Pocket Cruiser series

Heidi Foster, sums up the experience of her own, mostly lighthearted, last weekend at the Arts Festival

Five people sit calmly in front of a cinema screen. The curtain is about to come down on the Rye Arts Festival. But mayhem breaks out. Rape, poisoning, and intrigue follows. The body count rises. This is 16th century Elizabethan England and Rye playwright John Fletcher is at work. Ray Prewer spells out the plot - which was set to music

Alexander Stiller reviews one of the last concerts in this year's Arts Festival as the Belcea and Piatti quartets unite for an octet

Last year's Arts Festival had a quartet in residence and this year, for the first time, there was an artist in residence, Charlie Cobb,...

Last week the classical vocal ensemble Stile Antico returned to the Rye Arts Festival after a six year wait to perform their set "Sacred or Profane" - in a church. Ray Prewer reviews the concert.

Want to see some young talent and cutting edge designs during the Arts Festival ? If you weren't at the Studio School Fashion Show, you missed out. Gillian Roder gives her impressions

Festivals need moments of total madness - as you can see

Gales of laughter shook the Arts Festival's Lamb House marquee as Tim Redfern's hilarious cabaret evening provided a light hearted end to the festival, of which it was (apparently) not officially part

The Odysseus Trio are setting out on a musical journey. Alexander Stiller reviews their Arts Festival concert in All Saints Church in Iden.

The story of EF Benson's astonishing family and the network of major English novelists living in Rye between the wars, sets the scene for a trilogy of sequels to Benson's Mapp and Lucia books. Gillian Roder reports on one of the Arts Festival's final events.

This weeks featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film on Friday 02 October - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - This second helping of the Exotic Marigold Hotel saga is a joyful romp with a host of National Treasures of stage and screen on view. For trailer to this and other movies showing in Rye please follow the link..

Christopher Wren's "builder" was much more than that, reports Kenneth Bird from an Arts Festival talk.

Sixty years ago this week James Dean became the governing image of a restless, rootless generation, the subsequent release of his films only enhancing his stature as rebel king. Like Che Guevara twelve years later, his face was suddenly pinned to all our walls

Amber Rudd may have called off her “solar revolution”, but is she just toeing the line ? Maybe we can persuade her to think again. Not everyone will agree with this Opinion piece – polite comments will be published directly under the article