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 area COVID-19 rates fall – lowest in Wilts villages.
• Shaftesbury High Street flood delays church reopening.
• Shaftesbury Town Council by-election called.
• Last chance for your say on Dorset’s Local Plan.
• Meet My Pet – Dave Toulson hears from parrots and cockatiels.
• Kate Pickard and Karren Burkett chat ‘over the garden fence’.
• Barkley Johnson reads The Connaught Mirror.
• Shaftesbury what’s ons.
• North Dorset Nature – a woodpecker and dawn birdsong at The Butts.