On today’s Alfred Daily: Boost in business for Ashmore’s jigsaw maker | 100 volunteers signed up to Shaftesbury’s self-isolation team | Shaftesbury’s streaming church services proving popular | The unique way Motcombe shows support for NHS staff | More from Mary’s Wardour smallholding | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Gascoigne's Lane at dawn

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s Hope charity secures funding for food parcels | Online meeting to shape future management of Breach Common | Shaftesbury’s organic sheep dairy is hiring | How Castle Hill and Cedars are keeping residents connected this Easter | Local Zumba leader supporting health service staff | ‘See you in September’ say Art Fair organisers | Shaftesbury Carnival ‘will do something’ this autumn | Housemartin sightings in St James | The St James Church bells by Nick Crum

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset police chief clarifies bank holiday travel rules | Free money for Shaftesbury arts, sports and heritage projects | Grove Arms landlady on how the pub has adapted | A caravan break in the garden - Shaftesbury family recreates lost week on the coast | Motcombe’s wildlife camera footage will be shared with the world | Heather hikes around Enmore Green | Dawn at St James’ Rolt Millennium Green

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Council likely to donate thousands for key workers’ safety kit | Why are there traffic wardens still patrolling? | Colonel Blashford Snell praises Motcombe’s crisis response | Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show going ahead | Did a meteorite hit a Shaftesbury home? | The oldest object in the town museum | Gardening with Dirty Nails

On today’s Alfred Daily: Abbey View Medical Centre staff will work over Easter | The16th century charity funding emergency food for locals | Shaftesbury Co-op staff launch a colourful contest for kids | Dorset Council advise on composting after Motcombe fly-tipping | Avoid back and posture problems when home working – advice from Shaftesbury BMV Fitness | Niky Daly shares tips on reducing crisis-induced stress | Dorset wartime childhood memories with John Cluett | Sounds of Breach Common at dawn

On today’s Alfred Daily: Plans to restore a traditional Shaftesbury road sign | A Motcombe music video going viral locally | Dancing through the disruption with TLW Studios | Shaftesbury hairdresser says lockdown will change way women think about their hair | Shaftesbury’s Rainbows on their move online | Amber Harrison tests your Shaftesbury knowledge | A burst of springtime colour with Nick Andrew | Andrea Jenkins’ vegetable growing adventure | Lambs on Brinscombe Lane with Nick Crump

On today’s Alfred Daily: Bimport ‘street party’ will return on Saturday | Shaftesbury residents camp out to support NHS staff | Are you in your Shaftesbury holiday property? Go home, says MP | As the Queen addresses the nation, Bill Sherriff reads his poetry honouring her | Amber Harrison’s stroll through Bury Litton churchyard | Motcombe’s Memorial Hall lottery | Cath Toogood remembers St James’s shops of 1950s | Shaftesbury’s Open Spaces Group on their plan | Bees buzzing on blossom on Breac

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Abbey’s new artist-designed entrance | Shaftesbury recognised for dementia project | Watching rabbits at sunset with Amber Harrison | Compton Abbas artist Phyllis Wolff’s tribute to Shaftesbury NHS staff | Paul Merefield’s Saturday pub quiz | Gold Hill Museum unlikely to open this year | Globetrotting Shaftesbury chef Philippa Davis reminisces about a much-missed Shaftesbury restaurant | Daybreak alongside the French Mill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury salutes key workers | Is this the kindest man in Shaftesbury? | Local schoolkids tackle crisis with arrows and poetry | Self isolated invited to chat to Jo in Enmore Green | Motcombe better connected with new community resource | An East Orchard vegan chef is delivering | Andrea Jenkins’ homegrown journey | Poetry from Richard Foreman

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury well-placed for tourism opportunities when crisis ends | How Pamplemousse has adapted | Food relief for Semley and Donheads residents | Poetry inspired by ‘Clap For Our Carers’ by Janet Swiss | How current events saved Fontmell Magna’s shop | Stoates’ Flour Mill is so busy, they're hiring! | Bella West says forge new business friendships | Heather Whitehead hikes Breach Lane | Kate Pickard and Karren Burkett chat over the fence | Nick Crump’s daybreak bird s