People
Sharing in the wind farm windfalls
The community investment fund provided by Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm has, since 2008, given more than £460,000 to local concerns. A group called Caring All together on Romney Marsh recently received a lump sum that will allow its weekly and monthly meeting points for the elderly and socially isolated to continue
Graham’s Way gets final go-ahead
The final stretch of the cycle and pedestrian path commissioned following the tragic death of cyclist Graham Mathews in 2004 has finally been given the all clear now that issues over the availability of additional land and funding have been resolved
Business help for women
Following on from the roll-out of super-fast broadband, East Sussex County Council is promoting the Government's Swift project, which is designed specifically for women to give potential entrepreneurs and business owners training in computer-based techniques and business programs
Pontins opens for job hunters
The recent recruitment day at Pontins Camber Sands, held in conjunction with the Rye Partnership rural employability project and Jobcentre Plus, attracted applicants of high calibre to fill a host of vacancies
Ball game to trap the batsman
First you had to bat the ball out of the trap and up into the air and then whack it before it hit the ground. And that's only half the story. David Russell finds out about a pub game played by Rye's fishermen back in the 1850s
A Javelin joyride at slow speed
Once the talking was done at Amber Rudd's rail special, there was something to make them all start talking again: a sedate ride in a high-speed Javelin that was too fast for its own good. It soon caught up with slower rail traffic and had to stop. Nick Taylor was aboard
Straight out of a storybook
Mermaid Street is one of the loveliest places in the UK, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Rye has a new Christmas wish list
It was the talk of the town: a poor, poor show last December. Too much fell on too few shoulders. But Rye's mayor and her citizens want to go to the ball again. Together they will forge a new, brighter, dreamy Xmas that we can all be proud of. Derick Holman and the town clerk give us the inside story
The silent hunters in our midst
They are creatures of stealth, silent unless staking out territory or calling for a mate and flying so soundlessly that their prey - and we humans - are usually unaware of them. But Rye has a resident population of three varieties of owl and, in winter, they are joined by their short- and long-eared cousins
Could you be a first responder?
Volunteers in local rural communities can help save lives by volunteering to respond to 999 calls through Rother Responders.