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Northiam housing concern grows

A plan submitted by Persimmon proposes building over 60...

Charity posters torn down

We are not happy! On checking lamp posts in...

Giving the wrong impression

Rye News, your online community newspaper, does not have...

A green elephant in the room

Talk about the elephant in the room. Have you noticed it during the election campaign? Sitting there in the corner with a rather puzzled look on its face. The elephant is the subject of environmental policies and it seems to have been ignored, even by the Green Party

BT – ‘lie after lie’

A Rye resident is sick of 'endless excuses' and 'repeated lies' about non-existent phone and broadband connections. The Ombudsman can't help, so what is the point of its existence?

Enraged or weary? – VOTE!

In the first outing for a new regular column in Rye News, which will feature a variety of writers, John Howlett kicks off with his thoughts about the General Election in a week's time and how another coalition government came to a sudden end as the result of a misjudged jibe

Voting like sheep?

Do we vote like sheep, or should we think more carefully about the issues before putting our cross on the ballot paper when it comes to Election Day? Local livestock farmer Simon Wright ponders the issues to be considered in his monthly column

Rye Art Gallery: a correction

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War and referendums

Who will win the vote of anti-war protester Chris Coverdale in what he calls our outdated and corrupt political system? Are any of our candidates willing to take an oath against war?

The ‘mess’ that is our NHS

When one of our readers to the east of Rye needed urgent hospital treatment, she was taken to the William Harvey Hospital at Ashford by a friend. He was incensed at what he found in A&E. Here he writes about what he saw and what he thinks of a health service regime that allows staff to be, in some cases, grossly overweight and the public to cast their litter thoughtlessly about an area that is for people who are ill, some of them very seriously so

Time to peddle power to the people

As he retires after 16 years of serving on the town council, Granville Bantick reflects on the state of local democracy and the concentration of power away from the community - and calls for greater autonomy and more public involvement

The Salts ‘deserve better than this’

Everybody loves bonfire night, but we are left with a scene of desolation for months on end. Why do we put up with this when Easter is here and the town is already filled with tourists? There must be a solution