On today’s Alfred Daily: Motcombe ‘sits on fence’ over solar farm | Big attendance expected at Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show | Fontmell woman to run marathon with twin | Teddy is star at Shaftesbury allotments | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Wiltshire welcomes fleeing Afghans | ‘Solitary Hornbeam, Kingsettle Woods’ by Rich Foreman | Comedian Robyn Perkins at Shaftesbury Fringe | Starlings in a St James’s Street hedge