Rye News

Dear Editor If anyone gets a call from someone with an Indian accent purporting to be from Rye Town Council put the phone down on...

Last autumn, the Herald & Heart clock stopped, short but it will go again. Its inner workings are being lovingly restored and soon will be back on the High Street creating time for locals and tourists alike.

Dear Editor What a joy it is to enter our newest business in Rye: the Kino. The ambience created in the café is fantastic and...

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

As works began on bridge repairs at Rye station, locals feared that come Monday, travel chaos would be on the cards. But Network Rail managed to complete it on schedule

The ageing nuclear power station Dungeness B is to go on generating until 2028, EDF announced last month. Rye's risk assessment team React went to see the station for itself. Here is Anthony Kimber's report

You can't put a value on a good story - but do people think about the worth of the book as an object? They should, says Tony Mulholland, and the same goes for many paper items. He gives advice on how to start collecting

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

A magician was the warm up act, but the financial reports were even more cheering. Despite major investments in a new website, branding and an online booking system, the 2014 festival turned in a profit. This year's programme, which starts on Friday September 11, promises more of the same successful crowd pleasers

In the dispute over the development of 53 Cinque Ports Street, Rye, two questions have repeatedly been raised. Who gave the go-ahead for work to begin and which plan were builders working to? The answers - just days from a site visit by Rother's planning committee - seem, finally, to be clear. Tony Nunn reports

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

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

LTA Seniors Player of the Year - Frances Candy - starts 2015 with continued success and a convincing double victory at the tennis National Indoor Championships. Head coach Candy provides yet more lustre to Rye Tennis Club with another title to add to an impressive list from last year.

Great batting, bowling - and some "interesting" fielding - brought another win for Rye's indoor cricketers and lengthened their unbeaten record

Rye Bay under-12s faced a tough match away to Bexhill. It was freezing cold and, with the opposition evenly matched and both teams pushing forward, it took a full 100 per cent effort to do so well

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

There were goals galore when Icklesham Casuals 2nd team played away to Robertsbridge United II last Saturday. In a match played on a treacherous...

The Campaign for a Democratic Rye might have been dissolved at its recent annual meeting, but the members will carry on working to raise the profile of Rye, establishing its status as a great place to live and a wonderful venue to visit. They'll be doing it with a new focus, greater vigour and renewed enthusiasm - and under a different title

Our weekly look ahead to the films showing in Rye. Our movie of the week is "Kingsman: The Secret Service" at Rye Kino from February 6. See what's on, where and when and watch the trailers. Neale East reports . . .

Rock Channel Marine has been trading in Rye for nine years now and is firmly established as one of Rye's premier boatyards and maintenance...