Shaftesbury Civic Society members have awarded Keri Jones and the This is Alfred team the 2020 Rachel Caldwell Award.

The society says the team’s ‘untiring efforts throughout this pandemic year have made a major contribution to keeping our community together and strong, and our spirits positive’.
They say access to local news is ‘vital if people are to remain engaged even whilst locked down in their homes’.

They praised This is Alfred’s recordings of the natural world and stories and poems and add: “A massive thank you to all the Alfred team.”

Rachel Caldwell started the civic society in 1964.
Sadly, the society is set to be wound up soon – however not before members tackle the appeal lodged by Persimmon to the Planning Inspectorate in relation to building an estate of at least 130 houses on land south of the A30, long designated for employment uses.

They will also be ‘carefully responding to the draft Dorset Council Local Plan’ before shelving the society.

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