On The Alfred Daily Today:

Shaftesbury what’s ons

Shaftesbury business award entries exceed expectation

Christmas Day with North Dorset’s free Christmas meal volunteers

Ukrainian refugee shares her observations on her first Shaftesbury Christmas

Kate and Karren chat about couriers taking pics of left parcels

Why Carolyn volunteered to work Christmas Day at Ivy Cross petrol station

Peter Rolfe on the winter of ’63 and teaching in Shaftesbury

Maggie Pearce reads ‘And One For Grandpa’

Soundscapes – Song thrushes at dawn in Enmore Green