People: George Best, Robin Hood, John Lennon and Others

From today, George Best's name greets air travellers to Northern Ireland, where the former Belfast city airport has been renamed in his honour. The assembly may be suspended, but they still make decisions in Best's native city and this is a popular one. The footballer, who would have been 60 yesterday, follows Robin Hood and John Lennon in the still-infant practice of naming British airports after people. As at the John Lennon airport in Liverpool, where a drawing by the singer is part of the logo, Belfast will use a giant copy of Best's signature. His sister, Barbara McNarry, joined Belfast's lord mayor, Wallace Browne, in thanking the airport's owners, Ferrovial, for doing the decent thing.

A new Oscar for Sean Bean; not the golden statuette, yet, but at least the chance to get one with top billing in a new US film of A Woman of No Importance, opposite Lindsay Lohan and Annette Bening. Bean has a soft spot for Oscar Wilde, who saved him from a career selling cheese for Marks & Spencer in his native Sheffield. "Loved reading his work," he says. "Still do. He led to other things - plays, philosophers, Nietzsche, Homer. I hadn't realised there was such a world."

An unusual test of eloquence for MPs has seen Stephen Crabb, Conservative MP for Preseli, triumph in rooting more persuasively than all his colleagues for his favourite Asian restaurant, the Taj Mahal in Haverfordwest. Manager Abul Hussain goes home with the inaugural Tiffin Cup, an award organised by MPs Keith Vaz
Michael Fabricant and John Barrett to honour the role of curry in British life. Good food and fervour from the local MP combine to win the trophy, which will be dished out every year from now on. Other finalists judged by Loyd Grossman
Ainsley Harriott and Goodness Gracious Me's Nina Wadia included Mirch Masala in Sadiq Khan's Tooting constituency and Bombay Dreams, nominated by Dawn Butler, MP for Brent South.

It's a good answer to the proponents of violence - Leeds, home of three of the London bombers, last night chose the first Muslim to become the city's lord mayor. Mohammed Iqbal represents the City and Hunslet ward, just a few redbrick terraces from Beeston, where the three were brought up. He promises to "promote this wonderful city with its great tradition of welcoming and embracing people from all over the world". His daughter Sayeka, a 22-year-old law student at Leeds University, will give him a hand as lady mayoress.