News

In pictures: the first week of Rye Arts Festival

A fortnight of music, talks, drama, and films at venues all over town

Something for everyone

Looking ahead to week two at the Rye Arts Festival

Avian Botulism infections slowing

Number of dead birds has decreased in the last week

Spring tide brings more bio-beads to Camber

Nurdle is back with their specialist equipment to clear more beads

Rye Pottery at the British Museum

Saxon soldiers added to the Bayeux Tapestry and 1066 collection

Use it or lose it

Closure threat unless Playden WI Hall hosts more community activities

New plans for the former Methodist church

Proposals to convert the building into a single home revealed

Farewell to Freda

New Road Artists’ Autumn Exhibition could be the final one at Rye Creative Centre

News in brief 18 September

Taxi fare increase, a new fast train to London, and roadworks shut part of Rye town centre

Hours of sewage

Disputed figures but sewage continues to be released into local rivers and beaches in spite of recent heatwave

An accident waiting to happen

Public meeting discusses the dangerous junction of Military Road and Rye Hill