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Weather

The Met Office predicts the weather will be sunny with highs of 5 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 07:51

Sunset: 16:06

Things to do today

• Explore the colourful world of David McKee at theElmer and Friends exhibition in Dorset Museum • The Moreton Walled Gardens Christmas trial continues • Explore Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens while they are illuminated • The Poundbury Christmas craft trail is taking place until December 23

In case you missed it

Planning application delays easing

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: 10:00 - 16:00

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

• Friary Lane will be closed from the junction with B3150 High East Street for around 30 metres until December 17 due to scaffolding • Flooding works are being carried out in Portesham until December 18 • SGN will be carrying out works in Williams Avenue until December 8 and Came View Road until February 23, 2022 • Openreach will be carrying out works on Came Park Road to Main Road Broadmayne until December 1 • Jurassic Fibre will be carrying out works on the A35 from Sunnyside Farm to the junction with the A37 and B3150 until December 11 • Openreach will be carrying out works on New Road from the A37 Charminster bypass roundabout to the Lower Burton junction until November 30 and on Grosvenor Crescent until November 30 • Wessex Water is repairing a mains leak in Queens Avenue • Scottish and Southern Power Distribution will be carrying out works in Prince of Wales Road • Poundbury Road will be closed today (Thursday) until 3.30pm while Openreach carries out works. A diversion will be signposted and via Poundbury Road, Gascoyne Lane, A37, B3147, B3150

Cinema screenings

Plaza cinema:

A Boy Called Christmas - 17:15

Encanto - 16:15

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - 20:00

House of Gucci - 16:30 (subtitled), 19:15

King Richard - 20:15

No Time to Die - 18:45 Odeon:

Encanto - 15:15

House of Gucci - 16:30, 20:00

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - 17:45, 20:30

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

Fun fact of the day

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