The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Littledown residents appeal to council over Travis Perkins traffic | Charity bike ride for grandad with leukaemia | Could your pooch win prizes? | Blue badge parking consultation| Shaftesbury High Street shop closes | What should Planet Shaftesbury do next? | Shaftesbury what's ons and jobs| Gardening with Dirty Nails - carpets can cut down gardening work | Hammer Horror classic inspires Shaftesbury Fringe comedian’s show | Soundscapes – a mistle thrush in Ashmore Woods by Cor

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury promoted in railway tourism video | Shaftesbury man builds railway layout around bed | Dorset artist Sue Fawthrop | Shaftesbury singers form new group | Majorettes attend Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show | Jackie and Jeanette on cars | Soundscapes –birds and bees on Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury covid-19 rates above English average | Shaftesbury librarian says e-book choice will increase | Watch Shaftesbury comedy show for free | Is Shaftesbury Britain’s most romantic town? | Giving birth in Shaftesbury during lockdown | New positive choir to debut at Fringe | Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’ | Shaftesbury what’s on | Barclay Johnson's ‘The Reunion’ | Soundscapes - sheep at Holyrood Farm

On today’s Alfred Daily: Cheaper Shaftesbury car parking permits | The St James’s jackdaws wrecking thatch | Meet my pet - Lakeland terrier Eddie | Shaftesbury weekend what’s ons | Walk of the week - Sedgehill | World’s oldest Fringe performer in Shaftesbury | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Soundscapes - long tailed tits at Breach Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury school head pleased by GCSE results | Shaftesbury climate action group attend Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show | Shop owner’s new Shaftesbury and Dorchester stores | East Stour fire | Retiring Chief Constable shares frustrations | Fitness expert Laura on organic v nonorganic | | Soundscapes -jackdaws and town band

On today’s Alfred Daily: NFU president to visit Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show | Major flower show in Motcombe | Former Fontmell teacher launches early years maths programme | Springhead event to pique kids’ interest in plants | Dorset Chamber CEO on ‘trailblazing’ menopause work | Fringe comedian returns with pandemic puns | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Soundscapes - jackdaws and pigeons on Park Walk

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury School ‘A’ Level and BTEC grades | Park Walk’s white rat | Classical concerts this weekend in Semley | Sedgehill villagers plan Sunday sale | Cycle ride from south coast to Wales via Shaftesbury | Pimm’s party in Enmore Green | Dinner jazz at Shaftesbury Fringe | Young buzzard at Breach Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Grants for Shaftesbury groups tackling anti-social behaviour | Vintage steam at Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show | Shaftesbury residents asked to share eco-saving measures | Abbey concert of Dorset folk tunes | ‘Incredible’ illusionist coming to Shaftesbury | ‘Dirty Nails’ on humus | Soundscapes – Enmore Green playpark

On today’s Alfred Daily: A new way to promote ‘bottom of High Street’ | Bell Street supermarket will be bigger | Archaeologists dig Fontmell field | Shaftesbury ghost tales wanted for Fringe show | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Shaftesbury's Bargains store | Falling water at Collyer’s Brook

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury blue plaque unveiled | Dorset covid rate higher than England average | Shaftesbury police concerned about kids climbing buildings | 60s surf culture comes to Shaftesbury Fringe | Jamie Randall on Motcombe life | Shaftesbury what's on | Kate Pickard and Karren Burkett chat | Barkley Johnson’s story – ‘There But For Fortune’ | North Dorset nature – Shaftesbury’s young naturalists | Bumblebees on Breach Lane lavender