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August 01, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 2nd August 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: More Shaftesbury Sunday shop opening | Angola 76 is not closing | Ringing Shaftesbury’s St Peters church bells | Kate and Karren on contactless payment | Barkley Johnson reads ‘The Old Mill’ | A thrush and a jumping fish in Semley
35 min
July 31, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 1st August 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Motcombe COVID support ends | Shaftesbury beauty therapist relocates to Twyford | Paul Merefield’s quiz | Ludwell to Win Green walk | Kate Scott’s Shaftesbury chicken diary | Shaftesbury book blogger Karen Cole | Wrens and kestrels at Stour Row
38 min
July 30, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 31st July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury author is nominated for prestigious award | Huge demand for Shaftesbury-made pods | New rules for Shaftesbury grants | Vote for Compton Abbas silo in national contest | Why firefighters practice on Trinity Tower | East Stour herbalist Julie Wood | Dogs cooling in Fontmell Brook
36 min
July 29, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 30th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s funfair COVID safety measures | New home on Breach Lane | Open House funding decision delayed | Pop-up garden gigs from Belle Street | ‘Ugly’ High Street barriers will go | Cath Toogood on Shaftesbury’s former shops | David Burnett on Zig Zag Hill’s history | Crickets chirping in Twyford
33 min
July 28, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 29th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Bid to buy St Mary’s School | Police appeal to anti-social Shaftesbury youths | One day music festival coming to Shaftesbury | Dorset Council supports rural residents with broadband | Eat Out to Help Out scheme coming to Shaftesbury from Monday | Wardour smallholding visit | Do we need to grow Dorset’s economy? | Birdsong at Win Green
33 min
July 27, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 28th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset economic plan is tabled | Enmore Green woman to skydive for mental health | Paddock Close locals hope to halt new houses | A pop-up performance in East Knoyle | Greens and beans with gardener Dirty Nails | Early morning in Foyle Hill fields
37 min
July 26, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 27th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: St Mary’s School deadline extended | Funfair returning to Shaftesbury | Tai Chi can use Castle Green For free | Plans for Coppice Street car park | Open-air market will return in the autumn | Why Shaftesbury Sunday worshipers now arrive earlier | Dorset dialect with John Cluett | Myrtle is Nick Andrew’s featured plant | Springhead pond ducks
35 min
July 25, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 26th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Reclaiming Breach Common | Alison Harding’s charity plant sales success | Gillingham and Shaftesbury showground Sunday market launches | Kate and Karen share Shaftesbury observations | Barkley’s Johnson’s Sunday short story | Water under the bridge near Twyford
35 min
July 24, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 25th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Gold Hill movie is a worldwide hit | The Shaftesbury shop where masks are not mandatory | New committee will direct Dorset’s COVID response | Shaftesbury fitness centre owner reopens | Kate Scott’s pet chicken diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘2,000 Tunes’ by Karl Drinkwater | Grey wagtails at Springhead
43 min
July 23, 2020 The Alfred Daily – 24th July 2020
On today’s Alfred Daily: Deadline day for saving St Mary’s School | Dorset Police favour advice over mask fines | Truck collides with tree in Hartgrove | Fast grants for Shaftesbury COVID-hit groups | Remembering petrol sales and public loos on Shaftesbury High Street | Herbalist Julie Wood on Meadowsweet | Grasshoppers at sunset on Breach Common
43 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.