On The Alfred Daily Today:

Fundraiser walking across UK wearing speedos enjoys warm welcome in Motcombe

Fashion chain calls time on Shaftesbury store

Dorset Council accepting applications for cost-of-living help this Tuesday

Celebrations between the showers as Abbey opens new extension

Ballroom dancing Donhead couple share their story with Lynda Appleby

Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’ about the anxiety of being forced offline

Shaftesbury writer Tiggy Hayes reads ‘Amazonian Disasters’

Shaftesbury what’s ons

Events worth driving to on Monday

Soundscape: Yew trees rustling in the breeze at Bury Litton.