Rye News

Saturday September 19 will see the second Rye News Petanque competition. Last year the journos from the News came a humiliating last. Will they be able to improve this year

Dear Editor, As newly elected councillors to Rye Town Council it has struck us that the voice of young people is seldom heard in official...

The voices for war are gathering strength. The Government is preparing the way for the UK to begin waging a new war in Syria. Can we leave it to Parliament to decide? Where is the voice of conscience in all this?

Plans are well underway to rebuild St Michael’s Hospice in Hastings after the devastating fire, and the fund-raising team have organised the Fabulously Vintage Fair at Bodiam next weekend.

Recycle swap shop returns to Tilling Green on Saturday 12 September. People are encouraged to bring unwanted items and also have the chance to take away items that have been brought by others.

Surprise flash mobs are not obligatory and dance experience is not really necessary in Laura's dance class - and all genres are taught - from ballet to burlesque, and street to show numbers

The annual horticultural show saw a bumper crop of fruit, vegetables, flowers and visitors despite the awful weather in the run up to the event. There were no obscenely shaped vegetables, but there was a smashing pumpkin and some rather confused tomatoes.....and former Councillor Nigel Jennings, who works for Natural England and advises on matters like relocating nightingales, swept the board.

Three new exhibitions run concurrently at Rye Art Gallery - a well known Rye artist from the last century, local textile artists whose exhibits are just begging to be illicitly touched and a group of national artists working in the area. Linda Harland previews the show

This week's featured movie showing at the Kino is 45 Years starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling (pictured above ). Kate Mercer is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary but one week before the celebration a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff. This contains news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories... For more details and trailers to this and more movies in Rye please follow the link..

The good, the bad and the beautiful donned their smartest attire, polished their wittiest conversation and moseyed on down to the Mermaid for the annual gathering of the Friends of Tilling. Normal people watched, open mouthed as the elegant gentlemen and and brilliant ladies paraded in their furs, silks and badges of office. The BBC may not be coming back, but Mapp and Lucia are never going away

Enjoy a refreshing glass of something at the bar and join in as Rye Bay Crew perform all of your favourite songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin & Rogers & Hart at the Queens Head, Rye.

This year, to coincide with the bi-centenary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Rye Museum will host a special exhibition "Leading to Waterloo...

Guy Fraser-Sampson visited The Rye Bookshop to sign copies of his Mapp and Lucia sequels, including the final one 'Au Reservoir' which has not necessarily been welcomed by all EF Benson fans, but he explains his reasons

A major office spring clean at the National Churches Trust led to the discovery of rare archive photo of Winchelsea's church.

Rye Arts Festival kicks off with a carnival procession and a Cajun band, swiftly followed by the Duke of Wellington, a mini version of the Battle of Waterloo, a dead banker on Dungeness beach, three pianists in two days in St Mary's, pop-up studios and exhibitions and some 60 events in all over the next two weeks

The plight of refugees has attracted newspaper headlines all week and locally a petition has been set up calling on local councils to welcome refugees, a vigil is being held at the Town Hall and shelters, sleeping bags and other equipment is being collected for sending to Calais camps.

Last week we reminded readers of the effect of exceptional winter tidal surges. Here Anthony Kimber chairman of REACT gives his own measured view of our flood defences

Rye traders have welcomed the return of a mutual support scheme, which puts them in immediate communication with the police and with each other,...

The final section of the cycle route down to Rye Harbour from the lock bridge and past the boatyard will be officially unveiled next...

This London bus looks a little lost by the Cinque Port Arms in Rye - and should have been somewhere more conspicuous. But healthwatch director Julie Fitzgerald (on left, above) was on hand to tell you how you can help...and make a valuable contribution to the on-going debate about our health and social care services.