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Northiam Bonfire Society will be lighting up the sky over the weekend of June 20/21 with a Midsummer Festival. Saturday includes a dog show in the day and a BBQ and music in the evening and Sunday will host a Boot Fair with refreshments. There will be a beer festival in 'The Highwayman's Inn' both days. Simon Merrick reports

Winchelsea residents continue to despair about East Sussex County Council's verge contractors.

East Sussex County Council say patients will be able to access Rye's hospital and medical centre despite roadworks, but do not say how. Local lanes are dangerous, and the council says it will block them off. But what is the alternative? ESCC have no answers to questions they never got round to asking. Charles Harkness reports

Many Vodaphone customers in Rye have been experiencing erratic service for some weeks. This has now been traced to an intermittent problem with the mast in Playden. Nick Taylor investigates

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The county council closes the road past Rye's hospital for two weeks - but seems to have no idea how many patients will be affected, or how many cars use the site. Charles Harkness from Rye News went up the hill, and counted the cars in, and counted them out, so ESCC know how many lives their actions will affect. And the Town Council will keep protesting and asking questions about the county council's apparently ill-thought-out plans

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Following the failure of the now-defunct football club to obtain the correct building certificate, Rother Building Control have refused permission for the new owners, Rye Cricket Club, to use the bar and club room

The cricket season continued as the 1st team looked to to win their 4th game in a row as they travelled away to Henfield and the 2nd team were at home to Burgess Hill. However high hopes were bumped down to earth as the 1st were skittled out. But the 2nd did well in a tight finish. Clouds loom over the pavilion though, as Martin Blincow reports

The Tour de France, but with a difference. Heidi Foster reports from a first timer's point of view in a very personal account of a weekend cycling trip with the Rye Wheelers across the Channel....and with some wine to recover

The A268 from Beckley into Rye will be closed for over a month on weekdays between 930 am and 6 pm for roadworks in three separate places. And the last and longest stage will be on Rye Hill by the hospital and medical centre. Diversions started at the bottom of Rye Hill causing confusion and chaos as one driver reports on our Opinion page. And possibly only those people living and working on the road have actually been told what is happening. Charles Harkness reports.