Rye News

Rye Studio School students helped to design and produce the sets and costumes for the opera "La Traviata" at the start of the Arts Festival, led by conductor and stage director Alisdair Kitchen and starring Icelandic soprano Rannveig Karadottir in the principal role.

The Strand saw an unusual sight on Saturday September 13th with a very large tugboat moored at the quayside. The Falmouth registered tug from...

Two young locals from the Rye Wurlitzer Academy, which is supported by the Rye Fund, won awards at the UK Young Theatre Organist of...

What do you do when your train from Rye is cancelled and you have a bit of time on your hands? Forced to delay his commuting, Dan Scarsy took to composing - a poem

Power tools and more than £2,000 worth of fishing equipment have been stolen in a series of thefts in Rye, Sussex Police said today. A...

Tiny Mary Shipstone, shot from a car parked outside her home, has died in a London hospital. The man who killed her is thought to be her estranged father but police have yet to announce a formal identification

Rye Museum is holding a special exhibition during the festival season illustrating the extraordinary links - both friendly and hostile - between the town and its neighbour across the Channel, Normandy

Sir Donald Sinden who lived in Tenterden has died. John Griffiths pays tribute to the actor who for the last 19 years was president of Rye Conservation Society

Twin authorities at county and district level have reduced Rye to a sad state of decline says author John Howlett. It is time, he believes, to merge these councils and give back to Rye the hands-on autonomy it once had

The efforts of those who took part in a charity walk in May were marked at an awards lunch on Monday and local charities were delighted to benefit

At an awards lunch for charity walkers Kenneth Bird was invited to give the Rotarians present a brief talk about the progress of Rye News

Students at Rye Studio School have been heavily involved backstage in preparing for Rye Arts Festival. Their own performance kicks off with a parade. Harley Gentry, a student at the school, has been watching the preparations

In an emotional journey to the World War 1 battlefields of Belgium, a party led by the president of Rye's Royal British Legion, paid its respects - 100 years since since the start of the conflict

Staff at Edinburgh Woollen Mill in the High Street are joining others in many different places on 26 September to fund-raise for cancer carer Macmillan as part of the biggest coffee morning in the world.

Rye Harbour features an art exhibition, a caravan full of crafts and some rocking hot potatoes this weekend as the Arts Festival kicks off

Rye pre-school playgroup holds its annual duck race on Saturday September 20th at noon by Ferry Road bridge. You'd be quackers to miss it!

Winchelsea's infamous public toilets are "going down the pan" through Rother District Council's neglect say residents. Structural damage caused by trees has led to the closure of most of the facilities. But Rother has no plans to fell the trees nor to repair the building, which residents say is becoming an unacceptable eyesore

Icklesham Casuals 1st team got off to a disappointing start to the season on Saturday with a 3-1 home loss to Mountfield United.

High jinks, high society and hilarity at the annual dinner of the Friends of Tilling, led by Gyles Brandreth at the Mermaid - who will reappear shortly at the Rye Arts Festival on September 21, but in the Milligan Theatre this time... and after lunch.

Boxing is coming home as Rye Town Amateur Boxing club host their second home show and the Southern Counties Senior Novice Championship finals on the same day over twelve hours. If you are boxing fan do not miss either show at Rye Sports Centre on Saturday October 4.