Nick Taylor provides our lead in this month’s 'Fixtures' magazine, which is delivered to local homes by Adams of Rye. This is one of two features Taylor has written on local owls with photos by Dr Barry Yates, manager of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. For a full list of content in this month’s taster p
The George is hosting a Wedding Open Day on Sunday March 8 with wonderful wedding suppliers together with local registrars and their own events team to give advice.
This year's scallop festival got off to a swimmingly great start and never looked back. Ollie Campion, who inaugurated the festival a few years ago, was delighted to report that on the first weekend Simply Italian sold 10 kilos of scallops and the Ypres Castle Inn sold a whopping 38 kilos.
Winchelsea's secret gardens will be opened to support charities this spring and summer. The main June opening raises more money in one day for the National Gardens Scheme than any other event in the county. Money raised goes to national cancer care and hospice charities
A local farm is offering short courses covering every aspect of lambing and the chance to stay in a shepherd's hut. Students will learn how to spot the signs of impending labour, to care for new-borns and about the opportunities for fostering. Participants include beginners and prospective shepherds
An audience of more than 50 parishioners burst into spontaneous applause at the news that a new priest will be appointed to the Catholic church of St Anthony of Padua following the unexpected departure of Father Paul Clarke, scotching rumours that the church might close
La Maison du Vin Wine Bar and Antiques is opening soon at the White Vine House, 24 High Street, Rye, where the Ambrette restaurant was until its recent move. Louis
The town will be filled this week with the aroma of scallops: pan-fried, in risotto, crispy battered, with poached pears, butternut squash. The choice is huge. And if you like music to wash them down, there's plenty of gigs, too
One of the town's oldest residents, David Wilkinson, whose military career took him to danger spots in many parts of the world, celebrated his birthday this week among family and friends
The Campaign for a Democratic Rye might have failed in its original aims of bringing more democracy to local government, but it has not given up the fight and has re-emerged as a force campaigning for action in Rye
