Rye News

Rye C.C. had their work cut out when facing a high-scoring opposition on a dry and deteriorating pitch. A determined innings from the club, however, pulled them back into the game. Martin Blincow has the story together with news on all the cricket last week.

A brand new bridge from Valley Park to a bus stop in Tilling Green, but not much else, over an overgrown ditch is being reported to Rother District Council for planning enforcement. Charles Harkness reports

Last Sunday July 12 Rye Bowls Club held their 3M’s competition, a fun day open to members of the club wishing to play in pairs....

Rye relief lifeboat performed another rescue on July 11 when a small speedboat ran into trouble. If you want to learn more, the lifeboat station is having an open weekend on July 17 and 18 with events for all the family.

On Sunday July12, runners started off on the near-marathon-length first Cranbrook to Rye cross-country relay. With navigational problems, fallen trees, giant nettles and a suspicious bull, the participants had plenty to think about on the way. Two of them give their first-hand accounts.

The programme for this year's Rye Arts Festival will be announced on Sunday, July 20, and a highlight will be two performances of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with a lot of help from students at the Studio School. Charles Harkness talks to conductor/director Alisdair Kitchen

Multiple murders took place last weekend (July 10-11), committed by Acting Up in Rye in their summer show, Wanted One Body. The two night...

The possibility of high speed trains coming to Rye took a small step nearer with announcements in last week's Budget, but in the short term work on other lines might possibly mean more carriages and less overcrowding on the local line. Charles Harkness reports

The annual meeting of the EF Benson society saw 40 fans gather in Rye for a day of walks, talks and overeating. The highlight was the reading of "Dinner for Eight", a Benson play first performed 100 years ago

The progress of the Battle of Waterloo will be described step by step in a forthcoming talk in Winchelsea.

This week's featured film 'Amy' tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse (pictured above) - featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in today.. For more of this and other films showing in Rye follow the link...

Two of Rye's most popular gardens for fund raising events and parties go head to head this Saturday (July 18) with Rye Castle Museum's Garden...

  On July 14, an audience of fifty or more people cheered and clapped as five young singers performed a wonderful selection of Stephen Sondheim songs at...

Rye's Town Steward is working longer hours over the summer to take advantage of the extra daylight and his next targets for the paint...

Writer and broadcaster Richard Crowest returns to the garden of the National Trust's Lamb House in Rye this Saturday evening, July 18, for readings from...

Rye Museum Association is holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday July 28 at 6:30pm in its East Street premises, and this Saturday, July...

Sabotage theatre company put on a thought provoking, moving and educational show about owling (smuggling) in Sussex at the weekend as part of the JAM festival

Local glass repairer and artist Susan Morris is seeking funds to open a shop in Rye. Susan is using Crowdfunder to raise the capital required

The Sue Ryder fundraising garden fete on Saturday July 11 raised £780, writes Kenneth Bird. Denise Ellis, manager of the charity shop in the...

Margaret Hewett and her husband Sid moved to Rye from South East London, writes Margaret Holbrook. They joined the Methodist Church, where Margaret sang...