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Five groups get grants
Five local community groups, ranging from a Rye pre-school playgroup to Winchelsea Beach's Older People's Project, benefit from a charity shop's sales as Deputy Mayor Jonathan Breeds hands out cheques totalling £3,470. Also helped were Rye's First Scouts, Tilling Green's Young Helpers and Activ8 art group
Citadel ‘browned off’ over bins
Bin and gone. But was it emptied? If you have a brown wheelie in Rye citadel, the answer is: anybody's guess. Rother council and its contractor don't read from the same collection sheet and contradict one another
Agility for anybody, any dog
Two students from Rye Studio School have joined the Rye News editorial team as reporters. One of them owns dogs and is interested in their training so he decided to find out why a course being held at the Blue Cross centre at Northiam is proving so popular
Chopped after 700 years
After more than 700 years Winchelsea has lost its butcher's shop. The Winchelsea butcher was closed following continuing financial losses at Winchelsea Farm Foods, the trading subsidiary of local charity Wetland Trust, set up by retired hedge fund manager Stephen Rumsey and his wife Anne
Beaten by a one-man band
Rye Ist XI entertained League leaders Steyning at the Rye Cricket Salts, in a match sponsored by My Sweet Old Etcetera, while the 2nd XII were left one man short following a late injury
MP revolts over Rye bus cuts
The Tory-dominated county council is bent on bus cuts but the local Tory MP is not. She is urging them - strongly - "not to make these cuts"
Globe houses get green light
Despite vehement local opposition and the rejection of plans by both Rye and Rother councils, permission has been granted for houses to be built in the garden next to the Globe pub in Military Road
Surgery fight goes on
NHS England rebuffed plans to open a satellite surgery in Peasmarsh. But locals - by the hundreds - are backing an appeal by GPs at Rye Medical Centre. The fight is not over yet. Join in by signing an e-petition
Scaffolding down, paintings up
Rye's new two-screen cinema moves closer to November's opening as Kino Digital advertise for staff and, next door, scaffolding comes down and pictures go up in the St Mary's Centre in Lion Street
Sweet local charity
The shop at 7 Cinque Ports Street is not just an ordinary charity shop. Not only does it recycle second-hand goods but it also recycles its profits by distributing funds to local community groups
Tennis tournament was ace
Rye Lawn Tennis Club's 87th annual tournament enjoyed four days of fine weather. The threatened rain on Saturday never arrived, as the 270 entrants battled for glory on the club’s magnificent grass courts