On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury schoolgirl’s campaign in response to Dorset beach littering | Shaftesbury Arts Centre launches online talent contest | Natural playpark proposed for St James | Ashmore’s spooky unseen spirits | Clive Whitbourn’s North Dorset nature diary | Catherine Simmonds reads ‘Bright Fields’ | Phygelius - as seen on Bell Street | An agitated squirrel in Ashmore