Rye News

Rye was a double winner in the recent Sussex Heritage Trust awards. A couple of residents and a town-based architect were rewarded for their sensitive restoration work - of a listed house in town and a nearby village hall

The open weekend at the Rye Harbour RNLI station was a big success at raising awareness of the work of the volunteer force - and funds - with other local emergency services contributing to the fun and games

A Rye woman travelled to Austria to make a sponsored charity jump down a mountain. She was paying tribute to her son's best friend who died in a road accident.

Weather permitting an English summer is filled with families horsing around at local fairs and in Rye few are as important as the Tilling Green summer fête

Cribbage is one of the oldest card games around, a traditional pub game, too. The league starts again in autumn but already pubs are looking for new team players

Our daily lives revolve around computers and smart phones: for shopping, information, social chit chat. Which is why a club to help us make the most of the internet age is doing so well in Tilling Green

Hard work has paid off as the 1st Rye Scout Group, known as Captain Cory’s Own, look forward to moving to their new "hut"

Statisticians can work out the odds. But odd it was. A Rye couple book in at a Lake District B&B and find the landlady has every reason to ask questions . . .

Almost a hundred bus services are affected across East Sussex by cuts in subsidies proposed by the Tory-controlled county council. Here's how they could hit public transport to two local hospitals and other services

Rye's "round the town" bus service - route 326 - is the focus of efforts to stop funding cuts by the Tory-controlled county council. Almost a hundred bus services are affected by the proposed cuts to subsidies across East Sussex.  See the details here on how they could hit public transport to two local hospitals and other services

With an atmosphere and a line-up to challenge any New York nightclub - featuring jazz, blues, soul, funk, swing, Latin - the third Rye International Jazz & Blues Festival is coming back to town for four days and five nights in August

A Market Street curtain-twitcher with a bird's eye view scoops a preview of the latest "action" on the film set of Mapp and Lucia

As the Health Service celebrates its own birthday so the Conquest hospital celebrates continuing happy birth days following the decision to retain the consultant-led obstetric unit - including in-patient paediatrics, the special-care baby unit and emergency gynaecology - at Hastings

This year’s Rye Arts Festival’s full programme of over 60 events is being announced on July 13. And the free and paid-for events will feature classical and contemporary music, literary talks, theatre, comedy, dance, walks, exhibitions, and events for the kids and much more!

The award-winning Aurora Orchestra performed in St Marys, Rye as the grand showpiece of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival

Labour has selected its candidates for local wards in the upcoming May 2015 Rother District Council elections. Pictured here with Sarah Owen (centre front), Labour's Prospective...

Rye United FC’s future hangs in the balance following its annual meeting, which saw the club agree to transfer assets to pay off debts but fail...

The future of the Quarter Boys hangs in the balance as the AGM fails to appoint any club officers and reveals that club property has been passed to a builder to pay off bills

Tilling Green to host recruitment day and Work and Training Roadshow

What a sweet weekend that was for Rye Cricket Club when they welcomed Hellingly to the Salts - a match sponsored, appropriately, by My Sweet Old Etcetera