Keira Knightley will take part in bridesmaid at her more advanced in years sibling's wedding: It is just as well for Keira Knightley, pictured, that there is no performance of her West End play The Children's Hour on Easter Sunday. The actress is expected to perform on that day as a bridesmaid when her older brother Caleb marries Kerry Nixon, a fashion designer, in a ceremony in Glasgow. He proposed to her over Christmas.

Knightley is hoping for a swift Broadway transfer for her play about lesbianism, but the reviews have been somewhat mixed. The Sunday Telegraph's man in the stalls described it as "iredeemable tosh.

Tatchell's caution: While he welcomes the moves by ministers to allow homosexual couples to "marry" in traditional religious ceremonies, Peter Tatchell feels it needs to be done with sensitivity and discretion."Permitting faith organisations to make their own decisions on whether to conduct same-sex civil partnerships is the democratic and decent thing to do," the homosexual rights campaigner tells Mandrake.