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 bounces back with more shops opening on Sundays.
• Angola 76 landlady clarifies closure notice misunderstanding.
• John Hunt on the special sound of Shaftesbury’s St Peters church bells.
• Friends Kate and Karren discuss their concerns about contactless payment.
• Hartgrove writer Barkley Johnson reads ‘The Old Mill’.
• A thrush and a jumping fish recorded by Nick Crump in Semley.