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RYE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL 2016 PART TWO
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Rye Christmas Festival 2016 Part One Continue reading Rye’s Own Film Archive
Author: Jim Hollands
Hastings Man Wanted by Police
Police looking for Hastings man in connection with burglaries
Police are trying to trace Joseph Nelson from Hastings who is wanted in connection with a number of burglaries in Hastings. Continue reading Hastings Man Wanted by Police
Rye Christmas Festival 2016 Video Part Two
From the Rye’s Own Film & Video Archive Released Monday 12 December 2016
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Rye Christmas Festival Film Part One
Was this the Best Christmas Festival in the Whole Country?
There are not enough superlatives available to justly describe the remarkable event ‘Days of Old’ or the special people that produced and brought this amazing spectacle to the streets of Rye.
Yes! We know that Rye is a natural background for an event of this kind but importantly, it is Continue reading Rye Christmas Festival Film Part One
Mayor of Rye’s Christmas Reception 2016
Film from the Mayor’s Christmas Reception
The video includes performances by members of the Rye College
Also still pictures of many local personalities.
Rye Sex Assault Suspect Arrested
East Sussex sex assault suspect arrested after European police co-operation
Sussex Police Notification
European police co-operation has led to the arrest of a man suspected of a sexual assault on a child in East Sussex.
On the evening of 21 August 2008 a six-year old girl was sexually assaulted while visiting a restaurant with her family in Rye, East Sussex. She was badly shocked Continue reading Rye Sex Assault Suspect Arrested
Hastings Burglary – Can you help?
Two men sought in connection with Hastings burglary
Police are appealing for witnesses to a burglary at a house in The Croft, Hastings.
At about 3pm on Tuesday (6 December), two men were disturbed in one of the bedrooms of the property by the occupant who had just returned home. Continue reading Hastings Burglary – Can you help?
35 Arrests in Five Days
35 arrested in first five days of Christmas drink and drug-driving crackdown
Police have arrested 35 motorists in Sussex in the first five days of their Christmas crackdown on drink and drug-drivers.
The alarming statistic comes just days after Surrey and Sussex Police issued a plea to all road users not to drive under the influence of drink or drugs this festive season – or at any other time of the year.
It also follows the announcement that the number of officers capable of testing Continue reading 35 Arrests in Five Days
Mass Protest Over 12,000 Houses and Lorry Park
Gang of Four Motives Questioned by Marchers
The ‘Gang of Four’, as Local MP Damien Collins, David Monk, Leader of Shepway Council, and Councillors Susan Carey and Jenny Hollingsbee have become know, must have felt their ears burning on Saturday morning.
Hundreds braved a bitter cold December morning to march around Folkestone in protest against the building 12,000 houses, and Continue reading Mass Protest Over 12,000 Houses and Lorry Park
Brexit and Rye
Let’s be men – Let’s be Ryers
Ryers by birth or by choice are all Ryers if they love this old town and what it stands for.
By Jim Hollands
Our ancestors stood together for independance 200 years ago
Over Two hundred years ago, direct relatives of myself, Bill Waters, Alec Tiltman, Jimper Sutton, Bernard Clark, Terry Curd and many other well known Ryers became part of the Rye Company of Sea Fencibles that drilled in the Gun Garden and waited to take on Napoleon Bonaparte, who stood with his armies on the French Coast. Bonaparte did not arrive, he decided to go to Russia instead.
His Navy was defeated at Trafalgar in 1805 and the Duke of Wellington, later to become MP for Rye, defeated him at Waterloo, putting an end to his war against Continue reading Brexit and Rye