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:

• Food and drink service scrapped on trains from North Dorset.
• Boats, sea and Shaftesbury scenery in Neil Colclough’s exhibitions.
• Dorset Police advice follows Shaftesbury catalytic convertor thefts.
• Struggling Shaftesbury parents can collect free kids coats and pyjamas.
• Ye Olde Two Brewers pub announce alternative plans for either COVID tier.
• Dorset Council condemn Extinction Rebellion over London Cenotaph incident.
• Janet Swiss’ Shaftesbury quiz.
• East Stour medicinal herbalist Julie Wood on ash trees.
• Birds eating berries on a Breach Lane holly bush.