DON'T forget it's a Bank Holiday weekend, so we're in for even more entertainment than usual. Here's out Guide to some of the best local events.

*FOSSIL hunters will be flocking to Lyme Regis for the Lyme Regis Fossil festival, which takes place across the town tomorrow and Sunday.

Visitors can build sand sculptures, enjoy a bearded ladies exhibition and enjoy workshops from the likes of the Natural History Museum and the British Antarctic Survey - as well as dozens of other workshops and events.

This year's theme is time, tide and tectonics, and a new project by geologist Richard Edmonds will create a sand timeline along the beach.

For the full programme, visit fossilfestival.co.uk

*SIT back and enjoy a free display by the Wessex Invaders and Settlers Empire reenactment society in Dorchester this bank holiday.

The group will perform at Maumbury Rings on Sunday, April 30 and Bank Holiday Monday, May 1 from 11am-3pm. There will be displays of living history and medieval combat.

*TEDDY Rocks, a three-day music festival, will be at Charisworth Farm, Blandford, this weekend.

Headlining the event on Sunday is rock-pop band, Scouting for Girls. The weekender was founded in 2011 by Tom Newton who tragically lost his ten-year-old brother, Ted, to Ewings Sarcoma, a very rare form of bone cancer. From humble beginnings, (a gig performed to family and friends at The Greyhound Pub in Blandford), the event has grown and in 2015 the festival raised more than £42,000 for Teddy20, a charity supporting children affected by cancer.

Tickets can be booked at teddyrocks.co.uk/tickets

*BRACE yourself for a quirky festival celebrating Dorset's most traditional fare - savoury biscuits.

The Dorset Knob Throwing and Food Festival is at its new home, Kingston Maurward, near Dorchester on Sunday and takes place from 10am to 4pm.

Alongside the requisite knob throwing will be the knob and spoon race, pin the knob on the Cerne giant and Putt the Knob. See knobthrowing.com for more information.

*SPEAKING of the Cerne Giant, the Cerne Giant Festival takes place tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.

The festival celebrates humanity in the landscape and is a weekend of events allowing people to connect with the landscape and cultural roots of Dorset.

Tomorrow, a variety of guided walks will be held, all leaving from the Giant Viewpoint car park at various times. On Sunday, catch Gordon Bartlett in various places playing his street organ. The day of activities will be rounded off with a barn dance.

Among the events on Monday are a Wessex Morris procession through Cerne Abbas and a storytelling walk. See cernevalley.co.uk for the full programme.

*A PART hoedown, cabaret and folk-punk free-for-all will be at the Corn Exchange tonight (28) at 8pm when the Skimmity Hitchers come to Dorchester.

Support comes from Dorchester’s returning ska-reggae heroes Bluetown Rumble and apocalyptic surf outfit Palooka 5. This is a standing concert with limited seating available. Contact Dorchester Arts for tickets.