NEWS & SPORT

Jempson’s looks to the future

"We will continue to review, renew and re-shape our offer" after rival supermarket gets planning permission

Hundreds attend bus service meeting

Stagecoach responds after complaints

“I hope the divisions can heal”

It's time to come together say businesses after BID is overwhelmingly rejected

Registrar to the Cinque Ports Confederation retires

Thirteen towns represented at celebration dinner at The Mermaid in Rye

Marking 175 years of the Marshlink

Celebrations remember the day the first train came through Rye

Slow down on the main road

Speed limit introduced on A259 east of Rye in January could become permanent

Camber businesses meet MP

Ideas shared to help mitigate losses from bio-bead spill

Budget relies on £70 million borrowing bid

4.99% ESCC council tax rise and huge debt request to government

News in brief 20 February

County council elections to go ahead, Scallop Week starts, and worries about the Cadborough Cliff path

PEOPLE

Dena Smith Ellis: what it means to be a councillor

The first few months serving on Rye Town Council

Scallop Week secrets

Fishing and food at the Snack Shack at Dungeness

Creating masterpieces

Contemporary coastal cuisine at The Owl for Scallop Week

Sunflower Shop lends a helping hand

Rye Foodbank now has donated clothes on offer

Community learns life-saving skills

Defibrillator and CPR training sessions at Ground Up cafe

Sand, sea and great coffee

Leo’s opens at the new Welcome Centre at Camber Sands

A street through time. Pictures from the past discovered.

Box containing notes and photos from 1960s found by residents moving into Rye home

OPINIONS

The view from the USA

A writer from "America's Newspaper" returns to his home town after decades

Be more Swiss

Time to come together as a town after BID ballot disagreements

Valentine’s Day: it never ends well

Moonlight and roses and love an romance. Not so much

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

RX Architects nominated for award

Barn conversion repurposes an old building in Kent countryside

Food waste bins start to arrive

Weekly service starts later in the spring with a large and small bin delivered to every household

No Love Our Rother event this year

But Rother Community River Watch project continues

ARTS & CULTURE

Rye’s Grand Prix secret

Harry Weslake and the Rye V12: when a seaside town took on Formula One

Hallelujah!

Learn to perform Handel's Messiah in St Mary's from scratch and perform it the same day

Falstaff comes to Winchelsea

New Hall is first stop on UK tour on 28 March