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:

• No Shaftesbury or Motcombe local will miss hot Christmas dinner.
• New chairman backs parish council tax freeze for Donhead St Marys.
• History – the spiteful Shaftesbury former MP who cut off the town’s water.
• The craft of traditional hedge laying on Shaftesbury’s Laundry Lane.
• The Appleby twins attempt bathroom fitting.
• Shaftesbury poet Richard Foreman reads ‘In My Grandfather’s Room’.
• Soundscapes – starlings at dusk near East Orchard.