Rye News

The annual Rye Day of the EF Benson Society will take place on Saturday July 11, attracting visitors from all over the world, writes...

Ferry Road Nursery and Tilling Green Residents Association (TGRA) will join forces this Sunday (July 5) from 11am to 3pm in Tilling Green Field...

What is the value of a work of art if it can be reproduced one hundred per cent faithfully? The Nina Rodin exhibition explores this theme at the Rye Creative Centre

The new Scout centre was formally dedicated last Sunday, June 28. More than 100 people attended the service, including children from Rye's cub, beaver,...

The fourth Rye International Jazz & Blues Festival promises a stellar line-up over the August bank holiday. And this year’s festival will include special screenings at the Kino and a ‘New York’ jazz club as well as lots of free concerts at local venues. Tony McLaughlin has a full preview

The latest exhibition at the Rye Art Gallery is nautically themed, focused on work from the sea and the seaside by local contemporary artists. It includes ceramics and crafts and should not be missed! Linda Harland reports

On July 4 Waterstones will "officially" open in the High Street under the name of The Rye Bookshop. Peter Rabbit will be there to perform the opening ceremony

This week's featured movie showing at the Rye Kino is Queen and Country (pictured); the wonderfully witty but deeply moving new film focusing on Bill and Percy, two young and disillusioned army recruits in the early 1950s. The film follows their escapades as they while away their days chasing girls and making mischief. But the war in Korea is looming and authority is pressing in around them, creating tensions that will test their relationship to breaking point. For details of this and other movies follow the link...

Jonty Driver will read his long poem, Requiem, at a free event as part of the JAM festival which includes an eclectic mix of events at venues all over Romney Marsh

The 2015 Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival was once again a great success with superb performances by some wonderfully skilled musicians

Is the National Trust trying to destroy a national tradition? Winchelsea allotment holders have been told they cannot brew up on land owned by the trust. Plotholders aren't impressed - they say the trust is guilty of double standards and point to other allotments in town where the trust doesn't insist on the same rules

Lost pub the George Tap on Lion Street, was previously famous for its cockfights. David Russell reveals all

At 10 o'clock (or thereabouts), the door opens in Rye's Community Centre for the Country Market each Friday morning (except for a winter break). The queue - sometimes out of the door on to Conduit Hill - leaps to its feet and the race is on. Charles Harkness sets the scene and Mrs J. Stapley explains the history

Rother Voluntary Action organised an Activity Day on June 29 in the grounds of the Tilling Green community centre which focused on livelier, healthier...

Is there any need for the Rye Partnership to have a hand in the future of Tilling Green’s community centre, asks John Howlett? Let Rye’s town council take charge, he suggests; let it shape the future

The latest design for a Tilling Green community centre does not match the needs of the community, believes John Wylie, a Tilling Green resident. It would be suitable for a village, perhaps, but not for Rye town. He and others who use the hall have been given a preview of what it would look like. Here Wylie explains his opposition to the new proposal

An irritated Rye resident wants to know how a well funded group acting for the economic future and wellbeing of the town can manage to be so long-winded. About 89 months ago, Rye Partnership's chairman expressed the earnest hope that its website would soon be back in action. A website would serve to inform us, tell us what the Partnership does, what it spends, project its vision for a better future. Would someone, any one of its directors - past or present - like to give us the lowdown on why there still isn't one? Here's an invitation to tell all . . .

Icklesham Casuals Football Club held its presentation evening at Azur in St. Leonards on Friday evening

The bride was almost tearing her hair out, tears flooding down her cheeks, eyes red and puffy as she and the bridal party dialled around frantically trying to sort the disaster. And then a local hair salon stepped in . . .

Be wary if you tread your way down Deadmans Lane, urges John Howlett A gold badge is awarded to a long-serving member of Rye Harbour's...