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:

• Dorset Police Commissioner hopeful proposes mounted volunteer patrols.
• List the special Shaftesbury buildings you want protected.
• Police seek witnesses to Win Green deer coursing.
• £37m plan for Dorset’s special needs education includes St Mary’s School.
• Enabling eco-friendly fashion at Motcombe’s sewing school.
• Dinah’s Hollow work is anti-Melbury Abbas says Parish council chairman..
• Shaftesbury poet Richard Foreman reads ‘Last Day’.
• Soundscapes – Sheep munching on ivy near the Rolt Millennium Green.