Rye’s Mayor, Councillor Bernadine Fiddimore and Rye News‘ Charles Harkness blocked off the traffic on Tuesday, while Town Crier Rex Swain proclaimed Sussex Day, June 16, in front of Sussex’s flag on the Town Hall steps. That date is also St Richard’s Day, the feast day of St Richard of Chichester (Sussex’s patron saint), whose body was moved from its original burial place to an elaborate shrine in Chichester Cathedral on June 16 1276. Sussex Day was proposed in 2006 by a Worthing resident and formally adopted the following year. The Sussex Charter, read by the Town Crier ends: “Finally, let it be known, as guardians of Sussex, we all know Sussex is Sussex …. and Sussex won’t be druv”. More information can be found here on Sussex Day and the Charter .