Rye News will be taking a break over Christmas (not quite true – social media continues no matter how much cheese has been eaten). This edition of the paper is the last of 2024 but we will be back early on in 2025, with our first published on Friday, January 3.
Thanks so much for all the stories, tip-offs and ideas you’ve sent in, along with all the comments. We have a growing number of brilliant contributors. Plus of course a huge thank you to the Rye News team – all volunteers – who put the paper together each week.
2025 will be a big year for Rye News as we mark 10 years of reporting life in Rye. We will be revisiting some of the big stories from the past decade and catching up with some of the many volunteers who’ve played a part in publishing over five hundred issues of the paper.
2025 is a big year for Rye too. Hundreds of new homes may (or may not) get the go ahead. The tidal wall will be finished. There are county council elections and big plans for reorganising local government. We will be able to use Strand Quay again (and so will the bikers). The leisure centre comes under new local management. We could have a business improvement district in Rye if the chamber’s ideas work out. The Tilling Green Residents Association have big plans. It’s the bonfire society’s thirtieth anniversary. The town council will take on more responsibility for life in Rye – not just the loos – and so will local volunteers and charities.
Plus Rye’s festivals, big national moments like the 80th anniversary of VE / VJ day, art shows, sport, wildlife, and of course finding out more about the people who live and work here, along with more fascinating local history features too. Telling your stories and hearing your opinions will make 2025 a very busy year for Rye News.
And that’s before we get started on the email inbox of story ideas and features that have sat far too long in the in tray…
Whatever happens in 2025, we’ll be here.
From all of us at Rye News, we wish you a merry Christmas and send all good wishes for 2025.
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