On today’s Alfred Daily: Shaftesbury COVID-19 cases up | Award for Shaftesbury’s sweetshop owners | Ideas for Christmas in Motcombe | Shaftesbury Library services continue | Tom Perrett’s weekly walk | Kate Scott’s chicken keeping diary | Paul Merefield’s pub quiz | Karen Cole reviews ‘Fifteen Coffins’ by Tony J Forder | A mistle thrush in Ashmore Woods