Faces of the week

Fed up with the hold-ups in airport security when people insist that he must be Michael Caine, not the Maurice Micklewhite that was his original passport name, the movie star has decided finally to do the official deed poll deed. Life, perhaps, will be much easier for the actor when all he has to say: “My name is Michael Caine.”

Royal tattle of the week. Pippa Middleton got a ring. A big, sparkly engagement ring worth £250,000, more than her sister’s. She also got a fiance. A rich, handsome hedge fund manager. But hers isn’t a prince. So Kate still wins. Or maybe she loses. Perhaps it’s all down to the in-laws ...

From Muslim plane passenger Jiva Akbor came a lesson in understanding. There she was sitting on a plane from Glasgow texting good wishes containing the word Allah when the woman next to her panicked. Explanations followed, a friendship was born, and Akbor said this showed how “fearmongering ... can make an ordinary person have the most shocking reactions”.