On today’s Alfred Daily: Britain’s best sausage maker in Ludwell | Two projects for funding from new estate builder | Keeping your pets cool | Countdown to Motcombe’s four-day festival | Crime falls again in Dorset | Praise for Shaftesbury’s bin crew | Melbury’s rare breeds farm | Laura Langley on skin | Gift for Shaftesbury hospital staff | Shaftesbury what’s ons | A song thrush at Gutch Common