On The Alfred Daily Today:

Shaftesbury what’s ons

Fontmell villagers respond to ambulance workers’ strike

Festive funding surprise for Shaftesbury breast cancer charity

Shaftesbury snowdrops on TV, 2023 festival scaled back

Shaftesbury mental health support project moves into HQ

Christmas opening times for all Shaftesbury pubs

Visitors leave landscape-inspired verse in Fontmell and Win Green Poetry Boxes

The risk of raisins – Shaftesbury vet Lynn Broom on Xmas Pet safety

John Cluett’s Dorset Dialect words

Adrian Ryder’s bookshelf- a 1906 Blackmore Vale report

Christmas abroad- Shaftesbury’s Danish residents

Carols from Enmore Green

Soundscape- birds in an Enmore Green holly bush