The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury fire crew thanked for saving home | Reptile study at Motcombe Meadows | Gordon Haskell ‘brought us together’ - Johnnie and Tiggy Walker’s tribute | Celebrating Apple Day at Donkey Field | Shaftesbury poet Catherine Simmonds | Medical centre texts patients to say ‘we’re open’ | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Mary Myers’ Wardour smallholding diary | What’s new at Shaftesbury’s Oxfam bookstore | Lunch on Park Walk in the wind

On today’s Alfred Daily: Affordable food for low income Shaftesbury residents | The least socially deprived Shaftesbury area communities | Town Council considers netball provision | Shaftesbury musician Gordon Haskell has died | Christopher Price talks with Phil Tobin of Shaftesbury Bowls Club | Shaftesbury’s Julia’s House charity news | Shaftesbury football news with Dan Horsman | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Wildlife-friendly gardener Dirty Nails | A robin at Windwhistle Corner

On today’s Alfred Daily: Campaign to promote Shaftesbury shopping | Shaftesbury trader in book celebrating female entrepreneurs | Shaftesbury to Wareham walking route | 30 years of Apple Day - Sue Clifford | Shaftesbury events guide | Robert Mullins on Coombe House, which became St Mary’s School | Items on sale at Shaftesbury’s Weldmar shop | A tawny owl and coal tit at Higher Coombe

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Arts Centre chairman concerned by extended car park fees | Shaftesbury councillors praise Oasis pool | Shaftesbury’s Coffee Companions | Pallida choir celebrates ‘Apple Day’ | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Kate Pickard and Karren Burkett chat about Shaftesbury traffic | Barkley Johnson narrates ‘The Sandpit Twins’ | Karren Wimhurst’s musical improvisation | Early morning near Kingsman Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury car park fees extended | Fontmell Magna’s fundraising cookbook | Lorry fire at Sedgehill | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | A bench and wildlife signage for Salisbury Street | Shaftesbury's circular cycling route coming soon | Why Kate Scott's pet chickens are just like kids | Tom Perrett’s walk around West Melbury and Cann | Karen Cole reviews ‘Plague’ by Julie Anderson | Collyer’s Brook sluice in Fontmell Magna

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dementia walks for Shaftesbury | £20k commitment to Maltings residents | Successful harvest at Shaftesbury vineyard | Shaftesbury litter recycling trial delayed to 2021 | Plan to block unauthorised Park Walk traffic | Secret donor funds Shaftesbury’s Open House | Medicinal herbalist Julie Wood on roots | Birds and bells in St James

On today’s Alfred Daily: Students asked to determine Mampitts Square land use | Plan to protect Shaftesbury’s oldest tree | Shaftesbury Chamber agree ‘low key’ Christmas event | Shaftesbury Sunday pedestrianisation to stay to 2021 | Woodland skills workshop in Semley | Shaftesbury events and jobs | 95-year-old blind Shaftesbury artist’s work is auctioned | Pressing apples in Wardour | A bee and wood pigeon near Bedchester

On today’s Alfred Daily: Guys Marsh Prison set for expansion | Shaftesbury School headteacher is leaving | A pink bunny will bike to Gold Hill | Shaftesbury runs to improve mental health | Vehicle flips over in Shaftesbury | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Shaftesbury’s Town Hall antique fairs | Wildlife sounds - a hornet in Fontmell Magna

On today’s Alfred Daily: New gelateria planned for Shaftesbury l Shaftesbury fire crew called to A303 closure | Thieves steal Motcombe garden gates | Shaftesbury children’s clothes exchange returns | Shaftesbury area football with Dan Horsman | Declan Healy on managing Rushmore Golf Club | Wildlife-friendly gardener Dirty Nails | Soundcapes - The Fontmell Brook

On today’s Alfred Daily: Positive covid-19 case at Guy’s Marsh Prison | Self isolating could get cash support from Dorset Council | Independent jewellers to open in Shaftesbury | What’s new at Weldmar Shaftesbury | Live cabaret returns to Shaftesbury | Semley’s plague stone | Breast screening clinic in Shaftesbury | A parliament of crows fly above Bedchester