NEWS & SPORT
In pictures: the first week of Rye Arts Festival
A fortnight of music, talks, drama, and films at venues all over town
Something for everyone
Looking ahead to week two at the Rye Arts Festival
Avian Botulism infections slowing
Number of dead birds has decreased in the last week
Spring tide brings more bio-beads to Camber
Nurdle is back with their specialist equipment to clear more beads
Rye Pottery at the British Museum
Saxon soldiers added to the Bayeux Tapestry and 1066 collection
Use it or lose it
Closure threat unless Playden WI Hall hosts more community activities
New plans for the former Methodist church
Proposals to convert the building into a single home revealed
Farewell to Freda
New Road Artists’ Autumn Exhibition could be the final one at Rye Creative Centre
News in brief 18 September
Taxi fare increase, a new fast train to London, and roadworks shut part of Rye town centre
PEOPLE
Poet, potter and performer
Three degrees of curiosity - Lawrence Wilson
Five years of saying “cheese”
Sunday lunch with a difference at the Waterworks
Dogs love Rye
Social media aimed at dog lovers captures the town's pets in surprising places
Yippee-ki-yay!
Harvest Hoedown and a human fruit machine celebrate Wild West
Training that could save a life
Learning how to do CPR and use a defibrilator increases confidence
Thirty acts of kindness will help save lives
A new defibrillator cover at the Rye Leisure Centre is installed
A very special convoy to Paris
Rye Chauffeur to join 100 cabbies on the Magical Taxi Tour
OPINIONS
A new chapter at Rye News
The chair of the charity behind Rye's local newspaper explains more about what's happening
Can you help fill in the gaps?
Photos from the early sixties of Rye Scouts visit to Switzerland, but some names are missing
Eighteen years of returning to Rye
So what makes these regular visitors keep coming back?
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
It’s all about the bees
Festival event at Rye Harbour celebrates beautiful insects
Garden watch: catching datura at its September best
Magnificent late summer blooms as the nights draw in
August on the reserve
Suspected avian botulism outbreak has restricted viewing at Castle Water
ARTS & CULTURE
Great Dixter through the seasons
New paintings from Louis Turpin at Rye Art Gallery
The flock that rocks returns
The Marsh Choir opens 2026 Rye Arts Festival
Rye was French before the Battle of Hastings
Plans to celebrate the town's unique history as part of the European Year of the Normans in 2027
Norman churches illustrated in a new book
Soon to be published in year of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition
Joan de Bethel 1923 – 2017
A Rye artist is remembered in the most popular Rye News article since the paper began