On The Alfred Daily Today:

Shaftesbury, Motcombe and Semley area covid rates remain above English average.

How Semley’s African safari experts have coped with this week’s travel ban.

Donheads church art exhibition proves so popular it will return next year.

Shaftesbury escapes Storm Arwen lightly, but paths from Park Walk are closed for safety.

New book compares Shaftesbury's evolution with other Dorset towns.

Friends Kate Pickard and Karren Burkett chat ‘over the garden fence’.

Shaftesbury What’s ons and job vacancies.

Richard Foreman with our Sunday morning short story.

Soundscapes - A robin and a blackbird near Fontmell Brook.