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

By Lottie Welch

16th Nov 2021 | Local News

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

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 12 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 07:27

Sunset: 16:20

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

• Join Extinction Rebellion for a talk on climate change and what we can do about it

In case you missed it

Dorchester Vegan Market will return for itds Christmas event - but it will be in a different location

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

• 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

• Dorset Council will be carrying out works on Clarence Road until November 19

Flooding works are being carried out in Portesham until December 18

• Network Rail will be carrying out works in Damers Road until November 18

• Wessex Water will be carrying out works in Edward Road until November 17

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 (subtitled), 19:00

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

Odeon:

Eternals - 17:00, 20:30

Spencer - 14:15, 20:00

Dune - 16:30

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

Fun fact of the day

The first ever fossil shop in Britain was opened in Lyme Regis by a palaeontologist called Mary Anning in 1826

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