It’s been a good week for ... Tutankhamun’s beard

Even ancient kings have sticky moments. There he was, lying around minding his own business after 3,300 years, when a museum worker knocked off his famous beard. Oops.To make amends, the golden goatee was hastily stuck back on with superglue. Sorted.

No-one even noticed for several months. But when the botched beard came to light, there was an outcry sufficient to raise the dead from their sarcophagi.

Now, a year on, a German-Egyptian team of restoration experts has been tasked with scraping the epoxy off the beard, and reattaching it to the world-famous burial mask.

Full restoration could take a month or two, depending on how long it takes to remove the glue.

Looks like King Tut will probably miss Movember, then.

Despite the daunting task, lead restoration specialist Christian Eckmann it offered the opportunity for historians to learn about how the golden mask and beard were originally made and joined.

Maybe a pharaoh-tale ending after all ...

It’s been a bad week for ... storms

Brace yourself for Barney and batten down the hatches for Henry.

Quaking in your boots? You should be, but you can always count on the British to underplay things. These are among the names suggested by the public when invited by the Met Office to come up with suitable monikers for future storms affecting the UK and Ireland.

Thousands of responses came in via email, Facebook and Twitter. The full list of names are a masterclass in mundanity: Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.

It is hoped that naming storms will help raise awareness of severe weather and ensure people protect themselves, but this lot would barely have you reaching for your brolly, never mind sand-bagging the front door.

Experts have found that attaching a name to a weather event makes it easier to follow its progress and simpler to reference on social media.

In Scotland, we put a bit more feeling into it when Hurricane Friedhelm created mayhem in December 2011, renaming it Hurricane Bawbag.

Perhaps we should seek suggestions for our own Scottish list of storm names.

A hurricane beginning with A, then. Any ideas?