Wimborne Minster Flower Festival is to be opened at 11am on Friday 2 September by Sonnaz Nooranvary, who is the resident upholstery expert on BBC One’s ‘The Repair Shop’. The festival, the first in the town for seven years, runs from Friday 2 to Monday 5 September. It will take place in the Minster Church of St Cuthburga as they mark the 900th anniversary of the start of the building as we know it today. The original foundations go back to the year AD 705 and the 1300th anniversary was celebrated in 2005 when a host of events were held, including a flower festival.