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 business closes after seven decades of service.
• Shaftesbury photographer Alex Schlacher on her Austrian childhood Christmas.
• Shaftesbury’s Christmas workers – Myra McDadd.
• Why Mary is putting paint on Ronnie the ram in Wardour.
• Praise for Shaftesbury Hospital staff.
• Shaftesbury trio Belle Street sing a seasonal favourite.
• Rosie King’s Arts Centre show director’s diary.
• A starling and carrion crow recorded in Fontmell by Corax.