On The Alfred Daily Today:

New fiction book and writing festival to launch in Shaftesbury

Recognition for Shaftesbury service to single homeless people

Shaftesbury Town Band take silver in Wessex competition

Late night shopping events schedule

Shaftesbury charity shop bargains – Oxfam books, Weldmar, Cancer Research

View from the Hill - A big party visit from Somerset

New album for Shaftesbury music-maker

How Homemaker is addressing supply issues and the economy

West Melbury farm diary - Acorns prove fatal

Shaftesbury history – Robert Mullins on the Wincombe monitoring station

Shaftesbury poet Elaine Cadogan reads ‘Memories from Photographs’

Soundscapes – A robin in Brooklands Woods Fontmell