Are you interested in advertising your business to a local audience at a low cost them why not take out an advert on one of our 'Our Town' sites.

The cost is £3 per month for Alfreton, Ripley, Heanor, Belper or Langley Mill and £1.50 per month for Codnor, Heage, Crich, Ambergate, Loscoe, Riddings, South Normanton, Somercotes, Swanwick, Kedleston, Pentrich, Denby, Kilburn, Duffield & Kedleston.

This is based on 2000 visits per month for the town sites and 1000 visits per month for the village sites, if we don't hit these targets then we leave your advert on for an extra month (or two) until your adverts have had the minimum number of visits.

There is a minimum spend of £10 and you will need to produce your own advert (although we may be able to help adapt one of your exisitng adverts)

Interested? then drop us an email to info@ambervalley.info to find out more

Would you like Sticky Beak to promote your restaurant, cafe or takeaway? then why not include a special offer in my monthly mailshot. My email goes out to around 1300 people across the Amber Valley with more signing up each day and goes out at the start of each month.

All you have to do is get in touch with me with details of your offer and as long as we can agree something suitable then I'll put it in the next mailshot absolutly FREE! Target the offer at a quiet time of the week or at a particular menu you want to promote.

We have some space for the August mailshot but you will need to get in touch soon so pop over to their contacts page now.

The A38 is closed between the B600 (Alfreton / Somercotes) Junction and the M1 heading towards the M1 due to a serious accident that has occured in the last few minutes (22nd July 9.49am)

The first Tansley Saturday Market and Car Boot was due to take place today Saturday 19th July from 12 noon until 5pm but has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions however it will be back next Saturday

Tansley Market and Car Boot has long been a fixture in our calendar every Sunday but now it will be open on a Saturday too.

The first Saturday Market and Car Boot takes place tomorrow Saturday 19th July from 12 noon until 5pm, you can read the details in our news article here

And for tomorrow Charity Stalls can have a PITCH FOR FREE - If you are interested just give Shaun Hogg, the market organiser, a call on 07828 602538 NOW!!

And don't forget the Car Boot and Market will still be there every Sunday as normal.

Derbyshire County Council are holding a public consultation about how they manage the street lighting services going forward - Do you have an opinion? Then complete the County Council survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VJ55TNT

From the 1st September 2014, Amber Valley Info will be launching 20 new web sites, these sites will cover all of the towns and many of the villages in the Amber Valley - bringing users a more local view of all the news, events and business details held on Amber Valley Info.

The sites are being built online currently and will be finished ready for the official launch so if you visit them in the next three months you will find they are all works in progress. The sites are listed below.

Our Alfreton (sold out) | Our Belper (sold out) | Our Ripley (sold out) 
Our Heanor | Our Langley Mill
Our Codnor | Our Heage (1 left) | Our Crich | Our Ambergate (sold out)
Our Loscoe | Our Riddings
Our South Normanton | Our Somercotes | Our Swanwick (1 left) 
Our Kedleston | Our Pentrich | Our Denby | Our Kilburn (1 left) 
Our Duffield (1 left) | Our Quarndon

You can purchase advert spots for the period September, October, November 2014 now at the cost of £10 for the town sites (Alfreton, Belper, Ripley, Heanor and Langley Mill) and £5 for the villages sites.

You will need to provide a 180 pixel by 330 pixel graphic for the advert and we will put it online within a few days so as well as the three months you pay for you will also get the time leading up to that.

This offer is available to local Amber Valley businesses only so if you are interested then please get in touch with paul@idesignz.co.uk and let us know what sites you are interested in - A maximum of two town sites and four village sites is available per company.

From the 1st September 2014, Amber Valley Info will be launching 20 new web sites, these sites will cover all of the towns and many of the villages in the Amber Valley - bringing users a more local view of all the news, events and business details held on Amber Valley Info.

The sites are being built online currently and will be finished ready for the official launch so if you visit them in the next three months you will find they are all works in progress. The sites are listed below.

Our Alfreton | Our Belper | Our Ripley | Our Heanor | Our Langley Mill
Our Codnor | Our Heage | Our Crich | Our Ambergate | Our Loscoe | Our Riddings
Our South Normanton | Our Somercotes | Our Swanwick | Our Kedleston
Our Pentrich | Our Denby | Our Kilburn | Our Duffield | Our Quarndon

You can purchase advert spots for the period September, October, November 2014 now at the cost of £10 for the town sites (Alfreton, Belper, Ripley, Heanor and Langley Mill) and £5 for the villages sites.

You will need to provide a 180 pixel by 330 pixel graphic for the advert and we will put it online within a few days so as well as the three months you pay for you will also get the time leading up to that.

This offer is available to local Amber Valley businesses only so if you are interested then please get in touch with paul@idesignz.co.uk and let us know what sites you are interested in - A maximum of two town sites and four village sites is available per company.

A local company has asked if we will promote their survey about radio listening habits, it will only take a couple of minutes and you don't need to leave any personal information so please click the link below and share your opinions.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XH39YGF

A long standing problem has been to find a dog shampoo that doesn’t irritate our dogs skin but cleans him thoroughly. We never managed to fully get over this problem with our old dog, but since having our new puppy I have been determined to beat this issue, so the hunt began in earnest. Sometimes things just happen to fall into your lap as if by magic, and so it happened on this occasion..... I saw a Facebook post from Hearts and Homespun ( a local company I had used a few times before and always been impressed by) for their “Dirty Dog“ dog shampoo, and thought it was worth a try. It is Aloe Vera based, so cleanses gently without stripping the coat and irritating the dogs skin, and also contains no Parabens or SLS (an artificial foaming agent). Apparently the coconut oil has a gentle natural foaming action of its own.

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The owners of the Oriental Palace in Ambergate have finalised their re-opening plans and the official opening date for the restaurant is Thursday 6th March. They are taking bookings now via phone 01773 853888 and bookings via their website will be available soon.

Now they have also given us details of a special offer available to anyone who quotes the code RELAUNCH A and mentions Amber Valley Info.

The code gives customers a celebratory offer of: Fixed Price Banquet for only £9.90 per person OR 10% off a la carte menu (offers available on weekdays only) and these offers are available for the whole of March 2014. Please be sure to mention the discount code WHEN YOU BOOK THE TABLE.

Thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win one of two family tickets to see Billy Smart's Circus at the Bass Recreation Ground.

The tickets were won by Marie Green and Kylie Allen-Barton - have a great time at the circus guys :)

The family tickets were courtesy of Billy Smart's Circus on www.billysmarts.com and www.facebook.com/billysmartscircusuk who are at the Bass Recreation Ground in Derby from 11th March to the 16th March See Event Details

Here at Amber Valley Info we are quite familiar with Ripley based Exotic Meats, not only have they been the main attraction at one of the #AVYourSay Twitter networking events but last summer we purchased a couple of their BBQ packs with a range of sausages and burgers including Crocodile, Kangaroo, Goat, Horse, Reindeer, Llama and Wild Boar to name but a few.

So when Paul Webb of Exotic Meats mentioned they had a new product, Lambs Testicles, we volunteered to give them a try.

Why not have a read of the review and see how we got on read the review

Would you like to win one of two family tickets to see Billy Smart's Circus at the Bass Recreation Ground. Just pop over to our Facebook Page and like and share the competition photo.
https://www.facebook.com/myambervalley

The family tickets are courtesy of Billy Smart's Circus on www.billysmarts.com and www.facebook.com/billysmartscircusuk who are at the Bass Recreation Ground in Derby from 11th March to the 16th March See Event Details
 

* The competition is open to residents of Amber Valley and surrounding areas,
* Competition closes at midnight on Monday 10th March
* Winning Tickets Will Be Drawn On Tuesday 11th March
* Tickets Will Be Emailed To Winners On Wednesday 12th March and must be used by Sunday 16th March
* A family ticket allows up to five people and the tickets are in the Front Circle for any performance on any day.
* There is no cash alternative for this prize and judges decision is final in all matters

The owners of the Oriental Palace in Ambergate have finalised their re-opening plans and the official opening date for the restaurant is Thursday 6th March. They are taking bookings now via phone 01773 853888 and bookings via their website will be available soon.

Now they have also given us details of a special offer available to anyone who quotes the code RELAUNCH A and mentions Amber Valley Info.

The code gives customers a celebratory offer of: Fixed Price Banquet for only £9.90 per person OR 10% off a la carte menu (offers available on weekdays only) and these offers are available for the whole of March 2014. Please be sure to mention the discount code WHEN YOU BOOK THE TABLE.

A lot of rumours were appearing on social media that parking on the car park above Home Bargains in Alfreton had been cut to one hour (from two hours) free parking.

We get in touch with Home Bargains to clarify the situation and they told us;

The car park is controlled and always has been by another company who have recently installed new signage. They made a mistake with the new signage it should read 2 hours free parking. The signage is being changed.

They didn't say when the signage was being changed nor did they say if the company are going to honour the two hours parking before the signs are changed so we would suggest not staying longer than an hour until the signs are changed back.

Just remember if you do get a fine notice from a private company, it's not a fine, it's a charge and they don't have the same enforcement powers as councils so do so check out this great article about how to fight it (We used the militant approach against one in Chesterfield recently and got the charge waived)
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets

We have just been putting together the end of month statistics for Amber Valley Info and for the first month ever we have received over 20,000 visits in a month, So far for this year (10 months) we have had around 140,000 visits from 75,000 unique visitors viewing over 250,000 pages of local information.

Our business directory is free to all businesses, groups, clubs and charities in and around Amber Valley, our events listings are also free to all.

If you haven't already registered with Amber Valley Info then then question is WHY NOT! It's FREE for you to register and with thousands of visitors to the site each month - WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE?

Register your business of event with us now;
Register Business   |   Register Event

I’m not normally one to be behind the times, but on this occasion I have to confess to missing the boat slightly. Bluey’s held their third “ Flamin’ Galah “ Comedy night last night ( 28th January), and if it was anything to go by, I have missed out on 2 side-splittingly funny nights out. Anyhow, at least I can say I made it along to this one.

Read the full review at
http://www.ambervalley.info/blogdetail.asp?blogentryid=164

Just a little bit of fun for you Doctor Who fans, click on this Google Streetmap link and then click on the double arrows just outside the Tardis and see what happens
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January 2014 is officially our busiest month, we have now had over 20000 visits to http://www.ambervalley.info this month - have you registered your business, club or events for FREE yet