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Bonding with the diners
Bond was back in town at the Queens Head as the Rye Bay Crew served, cooked and sang for their supper at a special theme night...... and will be back at the Kino shortly in "Spectre"
Joys and dangers of foraging
Our local fields and woods (and all the photos show "finds" within six miles of Rye) can contain a feast or lingering death... John Howlett both encourages, but warns.....
When we were the front line
Soon there will be a parade to the Town Hall and St Mary's for the Remembrance Service - but how much do we know about, or remember at all, when Rye was in the front line and in the centre of two crucial aerial battles?
Horse crowned Comedy King
A horse called Wally has just been crowned "Comedy King" by a charity. Don't ask what he does or you will get hoarse from laughing so much. Just beware - because he lives somewhere around here
Putting frogs in throats
Do you want to heat up your dinner party ? Tickle your friends' fancy - or rather their throats? Then spice up their lives with a trip to Harbour Road
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
The latest in David Russell's Beer and Skittles series looks at the Jolly Sailor in Watchbell Street. It sounds like a lot of fun!
Once the world’s greatest power
The world's greatest power, green fingers, and today's headlines have one thing in common. WEA adult learning classes, starting this week and next. Andy Stuart has the details
Dixter, dahlias and more!
Gardens that attract hundreds of visitors will attract more this weekend as Great Dixter at Northiam stages an international Plant Fair with experts from home and abroad coming to talk about and sell their specialities
For your eyes only
Shaken but not stirred, Rye Bay Crew hold special Bond themed evenings at the Queens Head
Thumbs up from the visitors
There was a "nice gentleman on the desk" said a Portuguese family - and a welcoming face (above) at the Ypres Tower, home to the Rye Castle Museum, has meant visitors repeatedly give it the "thumbs up", reports Jean Floyd
Time to gin up your pricking
Sloe drupes (pictured) are now to be seen, which means it's time for the Rye News sloe gin competition. And there also seem to be a lot of other autumn fruits and berries around at the moment which some say means a hard winter is on its way. Optimists will add, though, that just means more elderberry wine and blackberry cordial for Xmas
A special service – for me!
Black cats have been associated with good luck, and bad luck too, in the past - as well as with witches - but St Mary's cat, Sylvester, is looking forward to when he, and other pets, can be blessed