On The Alfred Daily Today:

Why barbecues, fireworks and bonfires are banned from Shaftesbury’s beauty spots

Discover Shaftesbury’s special swifts on a free Sunday walk

Dorset Police warns of convincing phone scam

Walk of the Week - Tom Perrett takes us to Duncliffe

Meet my Pet – Alice Boarder and Hamlet the frog

Visitors’ views - tourists praise for a Shaftesbury café

Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary

Folk fox to musical mermaid: Anne-Louise Richards at Shaftesbury Fringe

Shaftesbury book blogger Karen Cole reviews ‘Nothing Else’ by Louise Beech

Soundscapes – Cygnets munch pond weed at Melbury