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:

• Police seek witnesses to serious accident near Guy’s Marsh.
• Shaftesbury fire crew called to A30 closure.
• Sherborne youth support charity extends services to Shaftesbury.
• Redrow break promise to reopen Littledown path by weekend.
• Wartime history – Guy’s Marsh Hospital and Motcombe POW camp.
• Dorset dialect poetry with John Cluett.
• Ode to Gold Hill by East Melbury artist Grenville Allen.
• Keeping badgers at bay with wildlife-friendly gardener Dirty Nails.
• Corax records a blue tit near Fontmell Magna.