Pope must not be subjected to vuvuzelas

Although himself an avid football fan, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, is worried that the forthcoming Papal visit could be marred by vuvuzelas.

"I have had enough of them already," says the Archbishop of Westminster. "I hope they stay in South Africa. Personally, I think the football would be more enjoyable without this constant cacophony."

He is concerned that some people have got into the habit of using the plastic horns during the World Cup in South Africa and might not be able to resist using them when Pope Benedict XVI, pictured, addresses crowds in Britain. The Pope is due to arrive in September for a state visit when he will meet the Queen and beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman.

He is scheduled to visit Glasgow, Edinburgh, Coventry and London during his four-day visit and address a number of crowds.

Archbishop Nichols has often spoken of his love of the beautiful game, and, in particular, his devotion to Liverpool Football Club. He recently named Kenny Dalglish as his sporting hero.

Jacob Rees-Mogg goes for Somerset

Jacob Rees-Mogg and his wife Helena were agreed about all four of the names of their third child: Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan.

The Tory MP for North-East Somerset says, however, that his one-week-old son's third name is not a nod towards his constituency. "Even my devotion to the county doesn't go that far," he tells me. "It was the first name of Helena's late father and it is in honour of him."

I fancy Somerset may not go down well with his father, Lord Rees-Mogg. Simon Raven, the late author who was at Charterhouse with him, used to say he was the inspiration for Somerset Lloyd-James, a character in his novel Alms For Oblivion series. That Somerset was a devious fellow who ended up slitting his wrists in a bath after discovering he had fathered an idiot child.