On today’s Alfred Daily: Pilots skywrite over Shaftesbury | Town Band director marks VE Day on Park Walk | How many Dorset Knobs can Kate cram in for charity? | Shaftesbury’s Blackmore Group making products to protect Britain | Long delay for Melbury Abbas and Cann Neighbourhood Plan | Amber Harrison goes ‘batty’ for Tanyard Lane wildlife | Paul Merefield’s Saturday pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘The Last Crossing’ | Shaftesbury area swallows and cuckoos with Alex Chapman | Song thrush at Old