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:

• Volunteers will welcome Shaftesbury visitors in car parks.
• National Trust ranger explains Fontmell Down forest school experience.
• Roadworks next week on the A350.
• Shaftesbury job vacancies.
• Grosvenor Arms Hotel waits until May for reopening.
• Hailstones confuse Kate Scott’s chickens.
• Italian flavour to Karen Cole’s book review.
• Paul Merefield’s pub quiz.
• Shaftesbury’s Hilltop History show episode 2 preview.
• Tom Perrett’s Shaftesbury walk reflects on the lockdown year.
• Afternoon birdsong on Shooters Lane.