Rye News

The hottest spot in town has to be the Rye Spice Company in Rye Harbour Road. It stocks spices and herbs that go all over Britain. Most of them could be classed as cool. But, for those who dare, the company's new retail shop has a range of chilli products that will take your breath away - literally. One of them is the hottest commercially available chilli in the world

A plan submitted by Persimmon proposes building over 60 new houses on the edge of Northiam village - Rother District Council (RDC) planning ref...

We are not happy! On checking lamp posts in Rye for the posters that we put up for the Fabulistics gig in our theatre,...

Famous artist Paul Nash, who lived in Rye, Iden and Dymchurch at various times and was a war artist in both world wars, featured in a talk for the Friends of Rye Art Gallery on World War Two posters. Friends Chair Paddy Harvey reports

Rye Museum's talk last month on celebrated Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry - who lived in Winchelsea and then at Smallhythe Place - is to...

Fireworks will light up the sky over Winchelsea again, just as they did 70 years ago on VE Day

Are you a knitwit? Or would you like to hang out with sew and sews? If so, you town needs you. Get those needles twinkling and help Iraqi refugees in need

Ian Bowden, director of the Rye International Jazz Festival, held a party at Rye Retreat on Thursday April 30 to launch the Patron and Friend membership and event sponsorship programmes and announce some of the musicians who will appear at this year's spectacular event. Tony McLaughlin reports

District Council candidates met the people of Winchelsea in the run-up to this Thursday's election - and a popular question was 'who runs Rother ?' But the hustings also covered parking, planning and listed buildings. Richard Comotto reports

A mystery fire broke out on the first floor of Rye College on Tuesday, shortly after the end of GCSE exams for the day. Further exams have been postponed while the extent of the damage is established

Rye News, your online community newspaper, does not have a political affiliation. We are a not-for-proft group of volunteers, dismayed that a political pamphlet,...

Talk about the elephant in the room. Have you noticed it during the election campaign? Sitting there in the corner with a rather puzzled look on its face. The elephant is the subject of environmental policies and it seems to have been ignored, even by the Green Party

Morris dancers welcomed May Day in Rye Harbour on a chilly morning before moving on to Rye

Time to get baking and enter next Saturday's (May 9) Rye Harbour Sailing Club 'Bake Off' and win yourself a prize. The event is being staged in conjunction with People Tree to support World Fair Trade Day and in particular, to raise money to help Bombolulu Workshops in Mombasa, Kenya

A packed St Mary’s church took part in a general election hustings, hearing from the candidates for the Hastings and Rye constituency.  Deprivation, renewable energy and fishing quotas emerged as key and common issues. Hastings and Rye is a key target for the Labour in the forthcoming election. Seana Lanigan reports

'The Imitation Game' starring Benedict Cumberbatch, pictured above, as cryptanalyst Alan Turing, returns to Rye tonight at the Rye Film Club. For details and previews of this and other movies showing in Rye over the next week, read Neale East

Articles featured in this month's taster edition of Rye News, printed within Fixtures, are: One fight and a few scraps - a look at local elections Mindi,...

Rye continued their preparations for the new league season, as they travelled away for a friendly, this time against higher tiered opposition Glynde & Beddingham. Martin Blincow reports on the match here.

Icklesham's veterans travelled away to Little Common knowing that victory would lead to them winning the Hastings FA Veterans League title. Read David Mayne's report here

Rye Harbour Sailing Club is participating in the RYA Push the Boat Out scheme to enable anyone interested in sailing to come and see for themselves what it entails and have a go in one of the club boats