This time on Alfred, the podcast for Shaftesbury, The Vale and Chase areas of North Dorset and West Wiltshire:

Newly approved Shaftesbury Lidl store could boost town centre trade says Dorset Council. (00:26)

The Guy’s Marsh craftsman with time on his hands – clockmaker Rich Poulter. (5:00)

Tough calls – the Shaftesbury man appointed director of Salisbury Samaritans. (10:56)

Cruise entertainer Jessica Chambers is home in Shaftesbury after quarantine on a ship in the Atlantic. (20:00)

Shaftesbury’s street cleaning volunteers are unhappy with an emerging form of litter. (27:07)

Dorset publisher David Burnett on Shaftesbury’s historic love of beer (31:25)