The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Serious A350 collision | Dorset tops vaccine take-up | Motcombe artist NHS tribute | Dorset Arts Week visit | Shaftesbury Weekend what’s ons | Hospital Friends push for electric vehicle funding | Abbey culinary herbs with Julie Wood | A greater spotted woodpecker at Coles Lane Farm

On today’s Alfred Daily: Mark Blackman on his St Mary’s School role | Bell Street traffic concerns | Shaftesbury Community Fridge | Management changes at Shaftesbury FC | Coles Lane reopens | Motcombe Shop backs Stars appeal | Shaftesbury what’s ons and jobs | Coping with fitness failure with Laura Langley | Wrens and blackcaps near Charlton

On today’s Alfred Daily: Permanent pedestrianisation vote | Section 106 cash not ringfenced for The Maltings | Free taekwondo taster for adults | Thatcher Matt Pickford | Mary Myers’ Wardour smallholding | Janet Swiss’ Park Walk poetry | Soundscapes - a crow chases a buzzard

On today’s Alfred Daily: Motcombe’s proposed solar farm | Motcombe’s four-day music festival | Remembering the Moto Guzzi motorcyclists | Planners confuse 80s flats for historic structure | Dirty Nails - snails and forecasting weather with trees | Shaftesbury what’s ons | A garden warbler at Gutch Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Compromise with allotment neighbours | Dorset Council climate action criticised | New books at Mampitts Road | Builders’ merchant expansion welcomed | Jeanette and Jackie reminisce | North Dorset Cycle Ride | Tawny owls on Castle Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Upset at St John Ambulance Shaftesbury closure | Motcombe gypsy caravan site approved | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Fontmell flower garden raffle | North Dorset nature notes with Clive Whitbourn | Kate and Karren chat | Barkley’s Sunday short story | A cuckoo on the Ox Drove

On today’s Alfred Daily: The new look Shaftesbury Abbey Museum | Planning changes concern North Dorset countryside charity | Tee off for Shaftesbury Carnival | Tom Perrett walks Compton Down | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Shaftesbury what’s ons and jobs | Karen Cole reviews an outback crime thriller | Soundscapes - Oysters Coppice in the rain

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset’s crime rate is down | The Kings Arms’ new publicans | Dorset Council acts as another HGV gets stuck | Singer Samantha’s emu excitement | Shaftesbury’s mobile herb vendor is a hit |BBC TV visit Abbey | Abbey’s ancient healing plants | Afternoon birdsong on Park Walk

On today’s Alfred Daily: Residents asked to shape Mampitts Square plans | Shaftesbury’s ‘Shangri La’ – Wincombe Park | Senior appointment at St Mary’s School | Second Shaftesbury area walking festival | Goodbye to St James Street’s ‘horrid’ phone box | Sheep grazing at Wincombe Park lake

On today’s Alfred Daily: North Dorset Cycle Ride | St John’s Hill blockage | Car parking on Park Walk | Shaftesbury’s Palida Choir | New home for St Marys School artefacts | Shaftesbury Online Festival cancelled | Lambing at Wardour smallholding | A goldfinch on Breach Lane