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:

• Music off-the-menu for now as Shaftesbury’s Angola 76 plans return.
• New outdoor food and craft market coming to Shaftesbury area.
• Natalie Cooper tracks down Shaftesbury’s missing St Lawrence Street.
• Taking the heat – meet a Shaftesbury pedestrianisation barrier marshal.
• Shaftesbury chicken owner Kate Scott’s new birds ruffle feathers.
• Hartgrove writer Barkley Johnson’s fairy tale with a twist – A Merchant of a Certain Age.
• A Breach Lane blackbird rummaging through leaves – by Nick Crump.