On The Alfred Daily Today:

Dorset Council asked if £2m Coombe House loan is enough

9-year-old Semley girl arranges cancer charity fundraiser

Award-winning author offers Shaftesbury holiday in reader contest

Specialist Shaftesbury shop to close in September

Shaftesbury allotments damaged by anti-social behaviour

Bees will be big at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show

Jackie and Jeanette reminisce

Shaftesbury what’s ons

John Parker visits Jack and Margaret Mellors’ Bimport garden

Folk and pop on the fiddle- Friday at Shaftesbury’s Kings Arms

Soundscapes - ash trees in the breeze at Duncliffe