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This week's top movie is Antoine Fuqua's action-packed remake of western classic The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio and Peter Sarsgaard. The town of Rose Creek is under threat from industrialist Bartholomew Bogue and the townsfolk hire seven renegades to protect them

"Stop the Clocks" is the title of octogenarian Joan Bakewell’s new book, and she showed us how to do it

Fun, laughter and friends at Danny's Olde Worlde Wines (first Sunday in the month), and later at the Ypres

This week's featured movie is The Girl on the Train - Rachel is devastated by her recent divorce and spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds

Rye News in-house culture vulture Heidi Foster discusses a few of her own personal highlights during the two weeks of the Rye Arts Festival

A true story of hope, redemption and forgiveness, I feel the opera of the year by a community company

The Rye Arts Festival is entering its last couple of days, but it will end with a bang, minature engraving and a Colombian harp

An evening of pure magic from a world class duo

Iden Church was the venue for an evening with the Perfect Fifth. Melodies, comedy, light opera - it had it all

The second week of Rye Arts Festival starts with some Saharan blues - and ends with opera - but with a wide variety of events in between

In place of the usual procession, Rye Arts Festival was opened with various street entertainments, including musicians dressed as pirates

John Fletcher, Rye-born dramatist, comes to the rescue when Will runs out of words