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August 31, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 1st September 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: XR Shaftesbury’s silent High Street protest | Sustainable aprons made in Shaftesbury | Shaftesbury tennis and Donheads sports clubs merge | Motcombe’s best allotment | Dirty Nails on home grown tomatoes | Plans for Semley café | The sun sets on August above Layton Lane
39 min
August 30, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 31st August 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury live music festival will return | Shaftesbury area pubs creating their own discount deals | Motcombe author releases historical novel | Robert Mullins’ memories of Shaftesbury fairs | Shaftesbury poet Richard Foreman | The gentle sounds of Springhead’s lake
35 min
August 29, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 30th August 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury bakery and café closes | Movies return to Motcombe and Shaftesbury | Kate and Karren chat | Barkley Johnson’s short story | Shaftesbury what’s ons | Changes to local train services | A tawny owl above Castle Hill
37 min
August 28, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 29th August 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Changes to Shaftesbury pedestrianisation | ‘Festival feel’ Turnpike Showground market | New Blackmore Vale online magazine | Tom Perrett walks to the Coombes | More from Breach Lane chicken keeper Kate | Shaftesbury holiday weekend events | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Shaftesbury book reviewer Karen Cole | Birds in a hawthorn tree on Breach Lane
43 min
August 27, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 28th August 2020
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
40 min
August 26, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 27th August 2020
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
43 min
August 25, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 26th August 2020
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
40 min
August 24, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 25th August 2020
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
42 min
August 23, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 24th August 2020
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
40 min
August 22, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 23rd August 2020
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
41 min

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Essential daily news, conversation and information for Shaftesbury and the villages of the Cranborne Chase and Blackmore Vale areas of North Dorset and South Wiltshire.