Duck after duck after duck
The first five Rye batsmen left the field without adding a run last weekend as a young Rye side lost by eight wickets to Slinfold
A tough foreign challenge
Serve! Rye Lawn Tennis Club’s 87th annual invitation tournament is under way. Players from Europe and the USA will provide stiff competition this year
Music maker and shaker
In anticipation of September's arts festival Alexander Stiller staged a question and answer session with Alisdair Kitchen, conductor and director of Euphonia Opera, who presents La Traviata at this year’s festival
Chernobyl children at convent
Local charity arranges visit to Russian Orthodox convent for children from Chernobyl, the area devastated in the nuclear power plant disaster in 1986.
How Mapp & Lucia came here
Not everyone who watched the BBC filming Mapp and Lucia in Rye recently will be acquainted with the books by E. F. Benson. Here an expert explains the background and why the author brought his formidable heroines to the town
Garage break-in
A garage door was forced open in Henley Close, Rye, between 7.50pm on Sunday July 20 and 7am the next morning, says Sussex Police. Inside a...
Mac and iPad stolen
Computer equipment and jewellery have been stolen from a house in Pett Road, Pett. Sussex Police says the owner came home at 4.20pm on July 21...
Is East Sussex cutting corners?
Winchelsea prizes its grass verges. Many are kept in pristine condition by proud residents. The rest are cut by contractors employed by the county council and Highways Agency, who leave a mess of uncollected hay
Pastors go extra mile
Street pastors have transformed the weekend late-night scene in many towns and cities. But what did they find to do in Rye?
Singers in concert
Beautiful choral music filled the air in St Mary’s Church as The Ryesingers rendered superb baroque and classical masterpieces
Arrivederci Il Monastero
The notice was short and clear. The landlord had taken repossession of 6 High Street because of the lessee’s default under the terms of...
TLC has its own awards
Three years ago two doctors bought a Georgian property in Rye. It needed a lot of TLC. They gave it. This year the restoration...
Restored and rewarded
Two awards have come the way of Liz and Andrew Bamji this year for the restoration of their Georgian house in Rye. Here they tell the story of their project
Countdown to the future
The shape of Rye to come is contained in a neighbourhood plan survey. Every household in the town received a copy. This weekend is the deadline for your views on the issues it raises
Where to put new homes
By 2028 hundreds of new homes could have been built in Rye and Rye Harbour. The neighbourhood plan wants your view on where they should go
Our views are needed
Time is fast running out: the Rye Neighbourhood Plan survey must be returned by July 27. One resident gives her views on subjects from parks to parking in the hope that others will be motivated to complete the survey as well
Rye’s cricketers run out of luck
Rye's cricketers were looking to extend their run of good form when they travelled to Keymer & Hassocks last weekend
Magpie’s funky new nest
The first of many pop-up galleries - which has added colourful abstract works to a treasure trove of an interiors store in Rye - is currently packing in the visitors. Catch it before it closes on July 28
Building boom hits schools
Concerns are growing over the additional homes being built in Rye. More housing means more families and more children - and more classroom places needed. So what plans are there for local schools?
Ryers rally round
It takes more than one "tornado" to stop the party. Rye Museum held a successful fund-raising event despite rotten weekend weather