On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury funfair owner Charles Cole | World-famous choir perform in Fontmell Magna | Increase in Dorset COVID cases | Grants for Shaftesbury students or apprentices | Downpours close Shaftesbury Tesco | Shaftesbury weekend what’s ons | A letter about Shaftesbury litter | Medicinal herbalist Julie Wood | Wind in the willows

On today’s Alfred Daily: Kings Arms reopens with strict COVID controls | Shaftesbury’s latest pop-up campsite | Planet Shaftesbury plan climate action | Shaftesbury Homegrown best year ever | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Poet Richard Foreman | Rooks at dusk at Duncliffe

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury-area walking festival | Campaign to help hedgehogs | Trustees sought for Shaftesbury retiree accommodation | John Brickell’s Cann memories - The Listen Inn pub | North Dorset hurdle maker Ernie Steel | Birdsong on Raspberry Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Guided walk around Breach Common | Dorset Council school plans | Qatar World Cup supplier sponsors Shaftesbury FC | Young Shaftesbury actors perform an outdoor play | New books for Shaftesbury library | Wildlife-friendly gardening with ‘Dirty Nails’ | A storm breaks above Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Town Council objects to footpath change | A snapshot of 1912 Semley | Background work on Lidl’s new store continues | Why the Larmer Tree was a Victorian crowd puller | What’s on in Shaftesbury | Richard Foreman’s poetry | Day breaks at Peckons Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury police warn of convincing cash scam | The Civil War clubmen | Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s play reading | Friends Kate and Karren chat | Another short story from Barkley Johnson | A scrap between squirrels at Gutch Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Meet the new Two Brewers pub owners | Donheads garden listed by Historic England | Invasive weed removed from river in Ludwell | Tom Perrett walks around The Stours | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig | A buzzard on Ashmore’s downs

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury school head on GCSE results | The Mitre provides Shaftesbury hospital meals | Former Shaftesbury mayor’s war story revealed | Save the Enmore Court drinking trough | Medicinal herbalist Julie Wood | A chatty robin in Charlton

On today’s Alfred Daily: Reduced speed and new crossing request for Shaftesbury road | Shaftesbury’s heath centre addresses criticism | Truckle Truck’s Carolyn hosts art workshop | Live outdoor theatre coming | Robert Mullins Shaftesbury history | After the rain on Breach Common

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury electricity upgrade | Mental health crisis support returns to Shaftesbury | Forest schools events planned for Springhead | Shaftesbury Camera Club promotes showground | Walking for Health returns | Mary Myers’ smallholding diary | An afternoon on Breach Common