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 firefighters called to same accident spot three times this week.
• Openreach estimates when Shaftesbury broadband will be back to normal.
• Shaftesbury pubs go undercover for social drinking and dining.
• Shaftesbury Car Link takes Christmas break as organisers are ‘exhausted’.
• Help fund a special chair to make a terminally ill Shaftesbury woman more comfortable.
• A Shaftesbury Carnival club offers Christmas tree removal for a fiver.
• Mobiles and mangers – a Shaftesbury church plans a high-tech Christmas trail.
• Shaftesbury area events.
• Wet sheep at Mary’s Wardour smallholding.
• Masks and stage markings – the Arts Centre’s precautions for January production.
• Birdsong on Castle Hill’s slopes.