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Sometimes the internet doesn’t turn up the right result. There’s a website out there in cyberspace which is completely wrong about the opening times of a lot of things, including Leyburn Filling Station – the Jet petrol station in Leyburn, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire. They have the opening times completely wrong, rendering a Google search for [...]

We put a little promotional video into YouTube to tell the world about the availability of our web development and design services across Yorkshire. We’re also keen to demonstrate the effectiveness of online advertising using services like YouTube to spread the word about your company’s products and services, and what better way to demonstrate that [...]

Dads will get free entry to the Dales Countryside Museum on Father’s Day this year. The museum, which is owned by the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is inviting families to a fun-filled day of drawing and craft activities on Sunday 16th June 2013. The museum will be open from 10am – 5pm on Father’s Day. [...]

The Wensleydale Creamery has been named Supreme Champion of The National Cheese Awards at the 2013 Royal Bath & West Show. In addition to the cups it received, Wensleydale Creamery’s cheeses got some fantastic awards: Gold – Double Gloucester – Yorkshire Wensleydale – Tesco Finest Hawes Wensleydale – Kit Calvert Old-Fashioned Wensleydale – Smoked Yorkshire [...]

This bank holiday, anyone who holds a full Environment Agency rod licence can take a friend or family member fishing without having to buy another rod licence. When? The offer starts on Saturday 25th May and runs until midnight on Sunday 2nd June 2013. How to Claim Fill out the voucher. Validate the voucher online [...]

Some of Yorkshire’s finest gardens will be offering free entry to RHS members this summer. If you are not already a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, new members can currently benefit from a special offer – 12 months for the price of 9, with prices starting at £39 for an individual member. Click here [...]

It is getting to that time of year, again, when the roads around the Dales (and further afield) will begin to be filled by pony and trap as visitors and traders convene upon Appleby for the annual horse fair. As a lot of people access this, the Silicon Dales blog, for information about local events, [...]

Our 2013 Agricultural Show calendar tells us it is Otley Show tomorrow – Saturday 18th May 2013. Otley Show will take place at The Show Ground, Bridge End, West Yorkshire. Tickets will be available at the gate. You can find out more information at the Otley Show website. We hope you have a great day [...]

With every web development project, we now have to test new sites (and alterations) on a huge range of handheld devices and browsers. It was great to see, last week, when we launched our new look for the summer last week, the Silicon Dales website looking really good in a variety of devices. However, an [...]

We passed the one year since launch anniversary at the end of March 2013, and, as we were so busy with our clients’ projects, we didn’t mark the occasion. However, to celebrate Silicon Dales’ 1st birthday, we have now created a new website (right here, at SiliconDales.com) and logo to take us into year 2 [...]