Start your day with Dorchester Nub News' breakfast briefing.

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

Weather

The Met Office forecasts it will be raining throughout the afternoon with highs of 8 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 08:11

Sunset: 16:20

Things to do today

• Enjoy the Elmer and Friends exhibition at Dorset Museum

In case you missed it

Empty town centre shop could be turned into a pet grooming facility

Attraction opening times

Dorset Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum: CLOSED - opens January 10

The Keep Military Museum: CLOSED - opens January 10

The Teddy Bear Museum: CLOSED - opens March 2022

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 - 22:00

Co-op: 06:00 - 22:00

Lidl: 08:00 - 22:00

Waitrose: 08:00 - 20:00

Roadworks

• Flooding works are being carried out in Portesham until January.

• SGN will be carrying out works in Cambridge Road until December 23, Casterbridge Road until February 11 and Came View Road until March 4, 2022

• The A35 between the football club roundabout and Stinsford roundabout will be closed until January 17 while National Highways carries out works. A signed diversion will be in place

• Scottish and Southern will be carrying out works in North Square until January 17

• The A37 Stratton bypass will be closed until January 6. A signed diversion will be in place

• Dorset Council will be carrying out works on the A352 Mount Pleasant roundabout to Came Park Road, Main Road and Main Street today, as well as on Lower Burton Road from the junction with Cokers Frome Road to the junction with New Road

• Wessex Water will be carrying out works in High Street, Piddlehinton, and Legion Close until January 7

Cinema screenings

Plaza cinema:

Spider-Man: No Way Home - 16:00, 20:00

The King's Man - 16:30 (subtitled), 20:30

The Matrix Resurrections - 19:00

West Side Story - 18:00 Odeon:

Spider-Man: No Way Home - 14:00, 16:00, 19:30

Clifford The Big Red Dog - 14:10

The Matrix Resurrections - 16:40, 20:00

The King's Man - 17:30, 20:30

Fun fact of the day

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