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:

• Half-hourly bus service will link The Maltings and Shaftesbury centre with Gillingham.
• Dorset councillor hopes bus gate issue will be resolved soon.
• Participants feel energised by free Shaftesbury Castle Green yoga.
• Shaftesbury FC manager quits after one match.
• Shaftesbury artist urges estate agents to see value in sustainable energy.
• Friends Kate and Karren discuss finding old family correspondence.
• Shaftesbury writer Barkley Johnson reads his story – The Keepers Field.
• Nick Crump records a chaffinch and kestrel in Stour Row.