Dorchester breakfast briefing: What's on, weather, roadworks and more

By Lottie Welch

15th Oct 2021 | Local News

Dorchester breakfast briefing: What's on, weather, roadworks and more
Dorchester breakfast briefing: What's on, weather, roadworks and more

Start your day with Dorchester Nub News' breakfast briefing.

Find weather, things to do, opening times, roadworks and more.

Weather

The Met Office predicts the weather will be cloudy but dry with highs of 15 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 07:33

Sunset: 18:17

Things to do today

Dorchester Literary Festival is currently taking place with a range of events on offer.

• Dorset Wildlife Trust's Kingcombe Centre is hosting A Celebration of Stitched Surfaces, artwork from renowned textile artists Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn

Dorchester Country Market is taking place in the United Church from 9am to 12noon

• Spend an evening ghost hunting at Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum

In case you missed it

Our business of the week - Dodgson's of Dorchester

Attraction opening times

Dorset Museum: 09:00 - 16:30

Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Keep Military Museum: 10:00 - 16:30

The Teddy Bear Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Tutankhamun Exhibition: 10:00 - 16:00

The Dinosaur Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Terracotta Warriors Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum: 10:00 - 17:00

Supermarket opening times

Tesco: 06:00 - 00:00

Co-op: 06:00 - 22:00

Lidl: 08:00 - 22:00

Waitrose: 08:00 - 20:00

Roadworks

• Came View Close - Dorset Council is carrying out works until October 21

• Wynd Close, West Stafford, closed - Dorset Council is carrying out works until October 15

• The A356 Dorchester Road between Maiden Newton towards Frampton will be closed until October 21 for surfacing works. The diversion is via the A35 and A3066

• Dorset Council is carrying out works on Syward Road until October 26 and traffic controls will be in place

• Network Rail will be carrying out works in Damers Road and multi-way signals will be in place

• Wessex Water is carrying out works on Manor Road until October 19

Cinema screenings

Plaza cinema:

No Time to Die - 11:30, 15:30, 18:30, 19:30

Ron's Gone Wrong - 13:15, 17:15

The Addams Family 2 - 12:15, 14:45, 16:00, 19:45

Venom: Let There Be Carnage - 12:45, 16:00, 19:15

Odeon:

No Time to Die - 12:30, 16:30, 18:15, 20:00

The Addams Family 2 - 13:00

Ron's Gone Wrong - 12:45, 15:30

Halloween Kills - 21:45

Venom: Let There Be Carnage - 15:20, 18:00, 20:30

Fun fact of the day

One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts

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