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’s August funfair organiser responds to COVID safety concerns.
• Council debates new home next to Shaftesbury Home Grown.
• More info needed on Open House funding request.
• Pop-up performances proving popular for Shaftesbury’s Belle Street singers.
• ‘Ugly’ Shaftesbury High Street barriers will be replaced.
• Cath Toogood remembers the weekly shop before Shaftesbury had Tesco.
• David Burnett on Zig Zag Hill’s history.
• The Summer sound of crickets chirping in Twyford.