The Alfred Daily is a 30-minute radio programme for Shaftesbury and the surrounding area, being broadcast 7 days-a-week. On The Alfred Daily today:

• Shaftesbury area care home residents and over 80s receive COVID-19 vaccine.
• Dorset’s chief constable says anti-lockdown protests will not be tolerated.
• Sir David Attenborough writes to Shaftesbury woman ripped off by online ad.
• Changes to North Dorset railway services – Roy Mitchell.
• Shaftesbury singer starts bakery with focus on special diets.
• Kate and Karren chat ‘over the garden fence’.
• Barkley Johnson’s short story – Frobisher’s Monkey.
• A coal tit in a hawthorn tree on Castle Hill.