Placing the Conquest Hospital in special measures may hasten plans for devolving key care services into the community, perhaps to Rye's hospital (shown above) bringing benefits to local residents. Some of the Conquest's problems are common across the Health Service. So is local "hospital bashing" th
Saturday, 12 September, was an unforgettable day for me because it was on this particular day that our guild, The Guild of St Anthony of Padua, visited the St Anthony
As the newly appointed Rye Town Council member on the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Committee I wanted to learn more about the organisation so it was a great pleasure to
The new cycleway in Harbour Road is now complete, and the opening was rightfully celebrated after such a long wait. But how safe is the road for motorists, cyclists or pedestrians? The latest section of cycleway is on an abrupt bend at the end of a long, unlit road which has seen a recent accident c
Dear Editor,
As newly elected councillors to Rye Town Council it has struck us that the voice of young people is seldom heard in official meetings. There are a number
The voices for war are gathering strength. The Government is preparing the way for the UK to begin waging a new war in Syria. Can we leave it to Parliament to decide? Where is the voice of conscience in all this?
Wendy Vu is raising money for Nhi, who needs a series of operations in order to move on with her life after a vicious acid attack in her home country of Vietnam
Should the poor will be always with us? The Government seems to be doing its best to ensure the maxim holds true, writes Charlie Harkness. Even people 'in work' are struggling to afford basic necessities. And these days, being in work could mean anything from a zero hours contract, through low wages
Please remove the boarding on the Cinque Ports Street new flats and re-cover with brick to match the rest of the street. The contrast is too great in this
Last week's story on Lydd Airport's possible growth got its numbers muddled, but eagle-eyed reader Andy Stuart possibly pinpoints a greater, and maybe more realistic, problem than plane crashes. Planes equal people equal parking problems, even if in some distant future high speed Javelin trains went
The Government claims to support devolution of its powers to the local level but is this happening?. The Localism Act introduced more powers for local councils and the Neighbourhood Plan but will this be enough? Former long-serving Town Councillor Granville Bantick reviews the situation and makes a
Should our Landgate be a political bellwether and survive or fall at the behest of political dogma. One article this weeks seems to thinks so. Here John Minter takes a different view
