People

Three men and a skeleton

Three men and a skeleton. Sounds like a book or a film title, doesn't it ? But actually, round the world, they are some of the best known men from Rye. Jean Floyd explains

Fame, food and fun

When did you last watch TV and think "why did they ever sign up to do that ?". Well, now you have an opportunity to learn. Seana Lanigan reveals all

Bridging for the hospital

An afternoon of bridge followed by a truly excellent...

Market is not sheep shape

Should government departments be feeling sheepish when their rules are not necessarily to the benefit of either the farmers or their livestock, asks Simon Wright

Shrinking down pub signs

Collectors will collect anything it seems, from stamps to Star Wars toys, particularly if the item is scarce - or may become so - and has happy memories attached to it. And pub signs may well fit the bill. David Russell reports

How does our garden grow?

One year on and Rye's Community Garden is beginning to harvest all the effort put in

Tragedy gives music to life

Music therapy can be a lifeline for vulnerable children and adults - and a recent tragedy has led to a musical result

Game for food and music shortly

If you bump into a man wearing a blueish, but cuddleish, wild boar's head with white wobbly tusks in your local, do not let your dogs panic. It's only Ollie publicising Wild Boar Week coming up later this month

Fair weather for the plants

Why did nurserymen and women come from all over Europe, to join with local specialist nurseries for a long weekend at a famous house with beautiful gardens of its own, and end up attracting over 2,000 people. Gillian Roder gets her fingers green to tell the story

‘Snippets of my history’

David T Procter is a man with a past, as the lists of past mayors in Rye's Town Hall shows and he dips into that past - to write a historical novel and a very modern detective tale. . . .and how much has really changed between the 1770s and the 2010s?

It all starts with ‘Yes’!

For the National Citizen Service social action, a team of Studio School students organised donations for a Charity Fashion Auction. Read on about NCS (and the Auction, of course) - and who donated

Art comes to church’s aid

An exhibition of exceptionally high standard took place over...

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