The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury FC’s all-weather pitch contract award | Funding for Motcombe’s good causes | Police warn on catalytic converter thefts | Free pavement licences for cafés | Hilltop Litter Pickers | Old Budgens store plans please councillor | Mary’s Wardour lambs | Avoiding pet theft | Rooks circle at Fontmell’s Gossip Tree

On today’s Alfred Daily: Plan to fell Semley oak | New Shaftesbury tourism website | Shaftesbury tree group planting | New Fontmell Magna councillor | Fontmell’s flower garden connects villagers | Easter colour for Motcombe | Dirty Nails on kale and frogs | Great tit at Ashmore Woods

On today’s Alfred Daily: Future of Shaftesbury High Street pedestrianisation | Shaftesbury area road closures | Appeal for help for blind residents | Shaftesbury Home Grown's young volunteers | Shaftesbury's milk stations | Clive Whitbourn on rare juniper bushes | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Dawn chorus on Pine Walk

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury area COVID-19 rates fall | Flood delays Shaftesbury Church reopening | Shaftesbury by-election called | Last chance for Dorset’s Local plan comments | Meet My Pet - Shaftesbury cockatiels | Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’ | Barkley Johnson reads The Connaught Mirror | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Woodpecker and dawn bird song

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Abbey - The Movie | Shaftesbury councillor irritated by roadside litter | Shaftesbury’s Tesco restores animal charity collection | Rent Turnpike Showground for a fiver | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | A circuit of Motcombe | Karen Cole recommends a Nigerian crime novel | Saturday soundscape

On today’s Alfred Daily: Long trip for Shaftesbury workplace COVID-19 tests | Shaftesbury author Karen Dickson | Virginia Hayward Hampers | Dorset could take BCP homes quota | The resident weaving mysterious decorations | Shaftesbury Carnival update | Julie Wood on aspen | Mixed birdsong at Springhead

On today’s Alfred Daily: Traffic queues at Shaftesbury’s tip | Shaftesbury dealer devoted to British-made sportscars | Hunt for missing dog brings out best in Shaftesbury | February’s weather impacts farmers | Archaeologist celebrates ancient Cranborne Chase trails |Electric car chargers in Motcombe | Shaftesbury’s dawn chorus

On today’s Alfred Daily: 80% agree with Dorset’s carbon neutral date | Tourism website needs more North Dorset info | Making powered surfboards in Semley | Shaftesbury COVID-19 jab update | How Park Walk helps make lockdown bearable | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Mary Myers’ Wardour smallholding diary | Shaftesbury’s common frogs

On today’s Alfred Daily: Semley fly tipping concerns | Protecting Ashmore’s toads | Good news for Shaftesbury’s great crested newts | Dorset Council decides against disposable BBQ ban | Dirty Nails on spring colours | John Cluett’s North Dorset railway models | Dunnocks on Castle Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Action on Dorset dog thefts | Shaftesbury School trials VR kit to boost wellbeing | Shaftesbury Abbey prepares new display | Motcombe jeweller Yvette Cannon | Volunteers needed for Breach Common | Fontmell Friendship Garden launch date | Laura Langley on mindfulness | Sheep and birds near Hugglers Hole