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Restored and rewarded
Two awards have come the way of Liz and Andrew Bamji this year for the restoration of their Georgian house in Rye. Here they tell the story of their project
Ryers rally round
It takes more than one "tornado" to stop the party. Rye Museum held a successful fund-raising event despite rotten weekend weather
‘Allo ‘Allo . . . it’s wartime
Living in the past is big business. Locally, few come bigger than the War and Peace Revival. Dance to vinyl, embrace tanks, laugh with a classic comedy cast
Salutes to the fallen
The annual visit to Ypres to commemorate local men who fell there in 1914 has a particular poignancy as the centenary of the start of World War 1 approaches
Cakes, music, fireworks
Rye Bonfire Society held a successful money-raising fête in Rae Festing's delightful garden at 11 High Street Rye on July 12
A winning fresh start . . .
Rye was a double winner in the recent Sussex Heritage Trust awards. A couple of residents and a town-based architect were rewarded for their sensitive restoration work - of a listed house in town and a nearby village hall
Mission accomplished
A Rye woman travelled to Austria to make a sponsored charity jump down a mountain. She was paying tribute to her son's best friend who died in a road accident.
Fêteful day at Tilling Green
Weather permitting an English summer is filled with families horsing around at local fairs and in Rye few are as important as the Tilling Green summer fête
Log on to knowledge
Our daily lives revolve around computers and smart phones: for shopping, information, social chit chat. Which is why a club to help us make the most of the internet age is doing so well in Tilling Green
Scouts relish move
Hard work has paid off as the 1st Rye Scout Group, known as Captain Cory’s Own, look forward to moving to their new "hut"
Landlady sees double
Statisticians can work out the odds. But odd it was. A Rye couple book in at a Lake District B&B and find the landlady has every reason to ask questions . . .
As scene from my window
A Market Street curtain-twitcher with a bird's eye view scoops a preview of the latest "action" on the film set of Mapp and Lucia