Are you a knitwit? Or would you like to hang out with sew and sews? If so, you town needs you. Get those needles twinkling and help Iraqi refugees in need
Rye News, your online community newspaper, does not have a political affiliation. We are a not-for-proft group of volunteers, dismayed that a political pamphlet, distributed at the weekend on behalf
Time to get baking and enter next Saturday's (May 9) Rye Harbour Sailing Club 'Bake Off' and win yourself a prize. The event is being staged in conjunction with People Tree to support World Fair Trade Day and in particular, to raise money to help Bombolulu Workshops in Mombasa, Kenya
When you were a short of a gift idea or needed a card, something a bit arty, you could stroll into Past & Present in Rye's High Street. That's no longer an option. The Holmans - Margaret and Derick - have sold up, and finally, after years of promising to do so, retired to their roots - somewhere in
A local man has written about his experiences under the Nazis, enduring terrible hardships as a Prisoner of War, but surviving the "long walk" in below freezing conditions with little food and making it home to marry his sweetheart
Immediately after Bank Holiday Monday Hasting’s Folk Fest is limbering up to entertain, involve and surprise visitors at twelve different venues and with more than 30 different acts, writes
Mayday! Mayday! Giants, bogies, clog and Morris dancers, drummers, sweeps and May Queens collide with thousands of bikers on Bank Holiday Monday at the end of Hastings' busy weekend. But you should feel quite at home as the residents take advantage of the Jack in Green festival to revel, frolic and
The best views of Rye, tourists are told, are from the top of St Mary's tower. Up to 20,000 visitors a year pay to go up and this helps maintain the historic Norman church. But the church still needs Friends, who will be taking steps shortly to make visitors safer, as Anthony Kimber reports
Rye & Winchelsea Rotary Club's annual charity walk will be on Sunday May 24, writes Derick Holman. This year it will be an invigorating springtime walk around the
