The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Volunteers will welcome Shaftesbury tourists | Fontmell Down’s forest school | A350 roadworks | Shaftesbury job vacancies | Grosvenor Arms Hotel to reopen in May | Hailstones confuse Kate’s chickens | Karen Cole’s Italian read | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Shaftesbury’s Hilltop History show | Tom Perrett’s Shaftesbury walk | Shooter Lane birdsong

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Town Council objects to Persimmon’s estate plan | Semley’s new alpaca business | View Compton Abbas history | Sally Francis on Angola ‘76 replacement | Adrian Ryder’s Shaftesbury walk | Julie Wood on gorse | A siskin on Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Town Council to push for Maltings access road | Shaftesbury Cricket Club recruits youngsters | Success for Shaftesbury’s freestyle skier | Beavers could return to Dorset | Trio of turkeys in Semley | Motcombe responds to Local Plan | Online quiz for Shaftesbury charity | Family food vouchers for Easter | Skylarks above Ashmore

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury patients offered second COVID-19 jab | Support for Angola 76’s new plans | Council opposes St James Street home | Shaftesbury students plan circus tent show | Belle Street’s garden tour | Moles at Wardour smallholding | Astronomer Steve Tonkin | A redwing and a mistle thrush in Sedgehill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Missing Shaftesbury teenager is safe | Shaftesbury milkman raises fire alarm | Motcombe will be a ‘carbon positive village’ | Disagreement over blocked Semley footpath | Lorry blocks St John’s Hill |Praise for Guys Marsh Workers |Blogger ‘Tess of the Vale’ | Wildlife-friendly gardener ‘Dirty Nails’ | Wind in the willows in Semley

On today’s Alfred Daily: Campaign to buy Fontmell shop | Theft from Semley business | Twinning Group postpones trips | Celebrating St Edward’s Way | Makeover for Melbury’s eco-friendly campsite | Watchdog wants train improvements | What’s new at Mampitts Road book exchange | Shaftesbury fitness expert Laura Langley | Birdsong, sheep and lambs on Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: COVID-19 cases fall in most Shaftesbury areas | Why King Alfred visited Downing Street | Guys Marsh and Fontmell speeding | Sunday half marathon for mental health | Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’ | Shaftesbury poet Marigold Rumble | A greenfinch in Enmore Green

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Fringe 2021 supporting performers | Shaftesbury area’s internationally significant chalk streams | Shaftesbury takeaway trial success | Chicken keeper Kate Scott | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Tom Perrett’s circuit of Cann | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Karen Cole recommends a German read | Skylarks over Melbury Down

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset National Park will likely cover Shaftesbury | Suggestions for Motcombe phone box | Signs to keep Motcombe kids safe | Shaftesbury to get water refill station | The Shaftesbury man spending lockdown in Bali | New Alfred history programme | Medicinal herbalist Julie Wood on broom | Beautiful blackbird song

On today’s Alfred Daily: Alfred volunteers given award | BV Dairy MD is proud Rotary sponsor | Meet Motcombe’s newest councillor | Dorset nappy disposal campaign | Closure sends traffic along ‘dangerous’ lane | Councillor says Dorset Local Plan feedback is ‘pointless’ | Shaftesbury poet Richard Foreman | Birdsong on Umbers Hill