The Alfred Daily

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury High Street pedestrianisation extended | Shaftesbury open air pool’s summer plans | Shaftesbury Camera Club can improve your pics | New direction for shopkeeper Vanessa Cole | Robert Mullins on the guns of Park Walk | Summer evening Birdsong on Castle Hill

On today’s Alfred Daily: Grosvenor Arms will be cash-free when it reopens | Landlady of Shaftesbury’s Ship Inn says pubs will change | Seen in the movies - props from a Shaftesbury business | GPs make video to encourage doctors to Shaftesbury | Neil Adlam’s Shaftesbury trees | David Kerswell on North Dorset’s changing pig farming | Online socials for Shaftesbury locals with memory loss | Sounds where Twyford Brook meets the Sturkell

On today’s Alfred Daily: Dorset Council’s plan to prevent heath and forest fires | Littledown show home considered inappropriate | Pop-up art alongside Shaftesbury’s Pine Walk | Ella’s 5k trampoline fundraiser | Cygnet Gallery announce reopening and vacancy | Shaftesbury GP visits in the 1950s | ‘Dirty Nails’ on versatile veg | Poetry from Shaftesbury creative writer Richard Foreman | A wren singing in Ferne Hollow

On today’s Alfred Daily: More live music could be Shaftesbury lockdown legacy | Dorset Community Foundation donate £500k to county causes | BV Dairy finds new opportunities following lockdown disruption | Roy Mitchell’s Shaftesbury public transport report | Natalie Cooper on Shaftesbury’s missing cross | Newts and an unexpected night visitor - Motcombe wildlife | Nick Andrew’s featured Shaftesbury shrub | Kingsettle Woods soundtrack

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s Oxfam Books reopening | New affordable homes in Shaftesbury | Bear grills – tough questions from customers at Teddybear Corner | More animal art on Breach Lane | Win show tickets with farm food art | Fontmell Down butterflies | Catherine Simmonds’ swift poetry | Barkley Johnson’s short story | Mid-morning birds in Duncliffe Woods by Nick Crump

On today’s Alfred Daily: Avoid the busiest time at Shaftesbury’s tip | Vehicle overturns on busy Shaftesbury road | Police seek witnesses to North Dorset road collision | Robin Walter reflects on the final Bimport rooftop gig | Flying the flag for Shaftesbury’s visitors | Kate Scott tries chatting with her pet chickens | Folklore stories from East Stour and French Mill Lane | Paul Merefield’s Shaftesbury pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith | A chiffchaff at Rushmore Woods

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury’s street market returns | Two callouts for Shaftesbury fire crew | Busy Shaftesbury area roads to close for repairs | Shaftesbury locals’ letters to beat social isolation | Shaftesbury TIC reopens | Shaftesbury’s churches reopen for reflection | Herbalist Julie Wood on ox eye daisy | A yellowhammer in Charlton

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Council oppose glove factory site housing again | Town councillor’s verdict on Raspberry Lane home | Mampitts Square kids events become virtual | Ludwell singer Conor Smith | Motcombe’s new councillor Rich Craigmile | Karren and Kate discuss a mysterious Motcombe light | A dunnock recorded on Castle Hill by Nick Crump

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury Town Council object to Redrow delaying community payments | Tesco funds Shaftesbury’s food project | David Kerswell on Dorset’s county farms | Shaftesbury street market returns on Thursday | Swift Group want to record your sightings | Poetry from Richard Foreman | A goldfinch in Breach Lane

On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury businesswoman objects to pedestrianisation | Colourful cake for Shaftesbury centenarian | Pop-up paella night planned | Shaftesbury medical centre’s ‘tree’ of facemasks | The North Dorset villagers who went nutty | Fewer calls for help at Open House | Dirty Nails’ wildlife-friendly gardening | Breach Lane soundscape