DO YOU want to know how the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events will affect your life next summer?

Three sets of drop-in sessions are being held next month to reveal more detailed local plans for the 2012 Games to Dorset residents.

The events being hosted in Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester aim to ‘dispel the myths’ and enable residents to find out about the behind-the-scenes work under way to help next year's unprecedented tourist attraction run smoothly.

Titled ‘London 2012 Games: What’s really happening locally?’ the drop in sessions will begin on Wednesday, November 23 at the Community 2000 Centre in Straits, Easton, Portland from noon until 3pm, then 4pm until 6.30pm.

Sessions will follow on Thursday, November 24 at the Community Fire Station in Radipole Lane, Weymouth, and the Dorford Centre in Bridport Road, Dorchester on Friday, November 25, both from noon until 3pm and 5pm until 7pm.

Members of the borough’s 2012 operations team will give presentations at 1pm and 5..45pm at each venue.

Representatives are expected from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), Dorset Police, Dorset County Council, the Olympic Delivery Authority and Transport for London, the Cultural Olympiad organisers, Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, the Homestay scheme, Dorset NHS and Primary Care Trust.

Duncan Flint, Dorset 2012 public relations officer, said: “We’ve also invited Mainsail, the event management company behind the Festival Village by Weymouth Pavilion, to come and talk about the giant craft and arts fair that will be there next year.

“It’s essentially everyone involved in delivering something down here to do with the Olympics.

“We ran similar drop-in sessions this summer, which attracted more than 600 people over three days but we’ve moved on a lot since then – there’s a lot more information available.

“We haven’t got all the answers but we want to dispel the myths.

“We’re planning to hold more drop-in sessions in the spring.”

An advertising campaign in local media, on postcards and posters at supermarkets and libraries aims to attract thousands of residents and businesses as possible to the drop-in sessions.

Topics will include the impact on borough residents parking and travel restrictions, possible seafront closure, street trading regulations, the ticketed site at the Nothe, the live site on Weymouth Beach and the festival area.

Details of the torch relay route through Dorset and how local people and companies can get involved in the 2012 Games will also be discussed.

Duncan added: “All are welcome to come along and get their questions answered.

“We’ve made the posters quite challenging with questions like ‘Will Portland be closed?’ because there are a lot of rumours that aren’t true.

“This is a chance to find out the facts and meet the people behind the plans. There will be the opportunity for people to ask questions and any we can’t answer, we will come back to with answers.”