The Alfred Daily

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On today’s Alfred Daily: Park Walk tree planting | Dorset COVID cases rise | RFU president-elect to film at North Dorset RFC | Donhead St Mary’s Council chair explains absence | Support for Motcombe Memorial Hall | Motcombe Council objects to housing plans | Shaftesbury’s new refill shop in a horse box | Surprise Semley auctioneers sale price | East Stour herbalist Julie Wood | Buzzards circling above Shaftesbury

On today’s Alfred Daily: Gillingham & Shaftesbury show to fund students | Semley celebrates begonias | North Dorset farming with David Kerswell \ Stour Row potter Jonathan Garratt | Rev Mary Ridgewell’s pilgrim service | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Dementia-friendly gardening space needed | Squawking starlings in St James

On today’s Alfred Daily: Maltings community consultation halted | Shaftesbury’s respiratory choir | Praise for Shaftesbury writer Brigit Strawbridge | What’s new at the Cancer Research UK shop | Chiropractor and osteopath tackle lockdown strains | Mary Myers’ Wardour smallholding | Tai chi on Park Walk

On today’s Alfred Daily: New printed Blackmore Vale Magazine launching | Dorset’s church-visiting challenge | Kissing gates improve Donhead’s footpath access | Shaftesbury what’s ons and job vacancies | Wildlife-friendly gardener Dirty Nails | Richard Foreman’s Shaftesbury poetry | Woodland birds on Pitts Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: State-of-the art classroom for Shaftesbury School | Derek Beer says bus problems will be resolved | Shaftesbury councilllors ‘disappointed’ over pedestrianisation changes | Friends walk a marathon for Hope charity | Donhead councillors concerned about signs | Nick Andrew celebrates a Salisbury Street flower | The sounds of Whitings Water

On today’s Alfred Daily: Online locums for Shaftesbury’s health centre | Shaftesbury honey producer | Shaftesbury whats ons and job vacancies | Shaftesbury football results | Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’ | Barkley Johnson’s Sunday story | Nature sounds near Larkinglass Farm

On today’s Alfred Daily: Motcombe’s new deckchair company | Dorset COVID case numbers | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Shaftesbury job vacancies | Tom and Jan Perrett walk to King Alfred’s Tower | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Shaftesbury book reviewer Karen Cole | Nuthatches in Boyne Hollow

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dinah’s Hollow tree removal proposed | Pavement sign approved for Shaftesbury nail bar | Dorset Council’s new chairman is local | Johnnie and Tiggy Walker’s lockdown stories | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Medicinal properties of Shaftesbury Scots pine | Sounds of Bittles Brook

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s new mental health phoneline | Shaftesbury Town Council object to Lidl sign | Three Shaftesbury artists share exhibition | Shaftesbury what’s ons and jobs | David Kerswell’s North Dorset Farming | Cann Mill’s breadmaking school | A Stoney Path evening

On today’s Alfred Daily: Councillor calls for Shaftesbury pedestrianisation to end | Firecrew called to tree fire | Shaftesbury Camera Club’s first decade | Travel writer praises Shaftesbury | Win a free book featuring Dorset’s landscape | Wardour smallholding diary | Sounds of the brook at Boyne Hollow