The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Calls for action to protect Christy’s Lane trees | Town councillors choose committee chairs | Town centre flats proposed for supermarket top floor | Dorset and Wiltshire Council on better bus travel| Semley Artist Jane Hall|Shaftesbury High School For Girls remembered | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Mary Myer’s smallholding diary | Soundscapes - bumblebees in a hollow beech at Gutch Woods

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury wildflower verges | Shaftesbury councillors making FOI requests about their own council | Shaftesbury shopkeepers support each other during flash flood | Wildlife-friendly gardener ‘Dirty Nails’ | Life as a Shaftesbury sixth former - Ellie Norman | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Blue tits, dunnocks, a robin and a blackbird on Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: A30 closed after road traffic collision | Volunteers strip weeds from Nadder banks | Rowing to support brain-injury patients | TLW Dance’s belated birthday | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Shaftesbury history - Robert Mullins on past pubs | A female tawny owl on Castle Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury records highest covid-19 rates yet | Former carnival queen tells Town Council to get act in order | New footpath will cut journey to The Maltings | Shaftesbury council’s business manager Brie Logan | Kate and Karren chat | What’s ons | Barkley Johnson’s ‘The Milkman’ | Chaffinches on Breach Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Bomb squad called to Twyford | New environmental festival in Motcombe | Fontmell’s new pop-up café | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Walk of the week - Marnhull | Shaftesbury chicken-keeper Kate Scott | Shaftesbury book blogger Karen Cole | Feeding hedgehogs on Haimes Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Britain’s best sausage maker in Ludwell | Two projects for funding from new estate builder | Keeping your pets cool | Countdown to Motcombe’s four-day festival | Crime falls again in Dorset | Praise for Shaftesbury’s bin crew | Melbury’s rare breeds farm | Laura Langley on skin | Gift for Shaftesbury hospital staff | Shaftesbury what’s ons | A song thrush at Gutch Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Spotting ‘county lines’ in Dorset | Market day pedestrianisation | Shaftesbury’s new coach company | Eastenders writer publishes novel | Compton cameraman’s North Dorset nature film | Two grow up in Dorset – with cousins Jacki and Jeanette | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Day breaks on Shaftesbury High Street

On today’s Alfred Daily: No Sainsbury deal for Bell Street store | Police tackle Shaftesbury anti-social behaviour | Berwick plans paired back Country Fayre | Karen Wimhurst’s song for Dorset | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Bournemouth artists paint Shaftesbury | Evening birds in Melbury

On today’s Alfred Daily: Government road study will assess A350 upgrade | Locals seeking social housing must re-register | Gold award for Shaftesbury company | Weldmar offers home care | Belle Street is sing for Shaftesbury Arts Centre | Gardener Dirty Nails | Balloonist lands near Shaftesbury | A greenfinch at Boyne Hollow

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury changes for ‘Freedom Day’ | No challenge to Dorset’s house-build quota formula | Bid to reorganise Dorset Council fails | St John’s Hill weight restrictions progress | Shaftesbury felt artist Jess Simms makes her presence felt | Glow worms on the downs | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Swifts entering a Breach Lane colony box