The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Fairtrade Shaftesbury | New police commissioner’s rural crime plan | Election results from the Wiltshire parish elections | New Motcombe festival | Alan Stainer shares his memories | More catalytic converter thefts | Shaftesbury area events | Kate and Karren chat | Barkley Johnson reads ‘The Caretaker’ | Soundscapes - honey bees on Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s new town councillor | 87% of voters back Shaftesbury Neighbourhood Plan | Shaftesbury student to appear on Countryfile | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Tom Perrett walks Compton Abbas | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Karen Cole’s book review | Soundscapes - farming at Charlton

On today’s Alfred Daily: The return of Shaftesbury’s swifts celebrated | Maltings roads will be adopted soon | Fibre internet for Melbury and Guys Marsh this year | Busy Shaftesbury-area road to close | Belle Street plan winery gig | Shaftesbury what’s ons | School academy trustee wanted | Soundscapes -a woodpecker and sheep at Rushmore Woods

On today’s Alfred Daily: Action needed over Maltings rats | Shaftesbury’s war memorials | Italian trials alfresco dining | Shaftesbury artist Eric Bailey | Cartoons to keep kids safe | Laura Langley on Aquafit | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Sunset on Park Walk

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset Council cultural strategy | Shaftesbury mayor re-elected | Green Party Dorset PCC candidate | Free kit for Shaftesbury litter pickers | Meet Mary Myers’ new ducklings | May in North Dorset farming | Dawn chorus on Coppice Street

On today’s Alfred Daily: St John’s Hill HGV ban eligibility test | Shaftesbury’s documentary maker Mark Kidel | Celebration of Shaftesbury button-making | Wildlife friendly gardener Dirty Nails | Dorset’s Labour Police Commissioner candidate | Breach Common birdsong

On today’s Alfred Daily: Appeal for witnesses to fatal accident | Shaftesbury woman’s TV judge debut | Reduced town centre speed limit fails | Staycationing Brits want to see Gold Hill | Shaftesbury fire crew rescue cat | Emma Vallender’s free book exchange | A goldfinch on Umbers Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Latest Shaftesbury COVID-19 rates | Shaftesbury’s cast iron grave markers | Collisions close A350 and B3081 | Seeing red over St James yellow lines | Kate and Karren discuss 1938 cookbook | Barkley Johnson’s story ‘A Series of Unrelated Events’ | Nightfall at Duncliffe Woods

On today’s Alfred Daily: Tough decision for Shaftesbury Carnival | Shaftesbury shops urged not to sell barbecues | May Day traditions | North Dorset dialect verse for Mayday | A loop of the lake - Tom Perrett’s weekly walk | Shaftesbury events | Shaftesbury chicken keeper Kate Scott | Paul Merefield’s Saturday pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘Black Stoke’ | A nuthatch on Gascoigne's Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Town meeting addresses ‘plastic’ football pitch and diversity | St Mary’s School sale - Dorset Council discusses jobs | New refillable food van for Shaftesbury market | CV-free recruitment at Shaftesbury business | St James yellow lines | Shaftesbury poet Richard Foreman | Wrens on Breach Lane