On today’s Alfred Daily: Tough decision for Shaftesbury Carnival | Shaftesbury shops urged not to sell barbecues | May Day traditions | North Dorset dialect verse for Mayday | A loop of the lake - Tom Perrett’s weekly walk | Shaftesbury events | Shaftesbury chicken keeper Kate Scott | Paul Merefield’s Saturday pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘Black Stoke’ | A nuthatch on Gascoigne's Lane