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

By Lottie Welch

12th Nov 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 with highs of 14 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 07:20

Sunset: 16:26

Things to do today

• Explore the colourful world of David McKee at theElmer and Friends exhibition in Dorset Museum

FAUNA: Art of the Wild is taking place at Sculpture by the Lakes

Dorchester Country Market will be taking place from 9am to 12noon

• Enjoy a puds and posers quiz at Brownsword Hall

In case you missed it

Dorchester's Dorset Museum hosts its first wedding

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: CLOSED

The Tutankhamun Exhibition: CLOSED

The Dinosaur Museum: CLOSED

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

The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum: CLOSED

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

• Jurassic Fibre will be carrying out works on Weymouth Avenue until November 12

• Friary Lane will be closed from the junction with B3150 High East Street for around 30 metres until December 17 due to scaffolding

• SGN will be carrying out works on Chestnut Way until November 16 and Came View Road and Casterbridge Road until December 17

• Dorset Council will be carrying out works on Millers Close until November 12, Grosvenor Road until November 13, Mistover Close until November 19 and Farringdon Close until November 19

Flooding works are being carried out in Portesham until December 18

• Barnes Way will be closed until November 12 while Network Rail carries out works. The alternative route will be via B3144 Prince of Wales Road, Culliford Road and Monmouth Road

Cinema screenings

Plaza cinema:

Eternals - 12:30, 16:15, 20:00

Mothering Sunday - 13:00, 15:45, 19:30

No Time to Die - 15:15, 19:00

Spencer - 14:30, 17:30, 20:30

Odeon:

Eternals - 13:30, 17:00, 20:30

Spencer - 13:45, 20:00

Dune - 16:30

No Time to Die - 15:30, 19:00

Fun fact of the day

It's thought that John Cleese's character Basil Fawlty was from Swanage

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