The latest exhibition at the Rye Art Gallery is nautically themed, focused on work from the sea and the seaside by local contemporary artists. It includes ceramics and crafts and should not be missed! Linda Harland reports
At 10 o'clock (or thereabouts), the door opens in Rye's Community Centre for the Country Market each Friday morning (except for a winter break). The queue - sometimes out of the door on to Conduit Hill - leaps to its feet and the race is on. Charles Harkness sets the scene and Mrs J. Stapley explain
The proposed new Tilling Green community centre is once again attracting controversy following the announcement by the developers of a three hour consultation in ten days time after eight weeks of silence following a packed meeting, which heard for the first time that it would be a single storey bui
This is just a rehearsal, and you need to imagine swirling mists, rising floodwaters and an old dark house on the edge of marshes. It could be Rye. And all that is missing is the body - and the will, of course. So it must be Acting Up In Rye hard at work on a new production, though it looks like a l
When the tiny village of Iden staged its biennial Open Gardens day in brilliant weather on June 6-7, the eleven gardens of different sizes and styles attracted over 300
From primitive cave paintings to Turner, watercolours are a huge subject, and local artist Andy Wood is an expert because he is President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He talked to the Friends of Rye Art Gallery recently about this area of art
Only one lane of the entrance to Rye's hospital and medical centre site will be open once roadworks start, and questions remain unanswered about whether patients - and indeed staff - will have adequate access. The county council has already had to apologise for the contractor's behaviour, and patien
Road closures on the Peasmarsh Road caused traffic chaos in Rye itself as signs appeared in town before the railway bridge, diverting traffic across the marsh - or so it seemed. John Stedman raised the issue with East Sussex County Council and reports back on what he learnt, none of which is good ne
A singing dentist, who learnt as a student the impact that being born with a cleft lip or palate can have, will be raising money to raise a smile in St Mary's Church this month
A small group of children enjoyed a craft afternoon on Wednesday May 27 at East Street museum. The craft session had a garden theme and children decorated plant pots decoupage
