Names not showing in Messages app, just numbers!

Hi all.
I have setup my iPad Mini with Retina Display and synced it with my iCloud account (contacts, calendar etc) but when I use the messages app on the iPad, the contact names don't show, just the phone numbers. My iPhone doesn't have this issue. Some of the numbers show up on the iPad messages app starting +44 (the UK country code) but the number is stored in contacts starts 07. If I change the saved number to +44 it woks on the iPad. I don't have this issue with the iPhone, just the iPad. Does anyone know why?
Thanks

So Think I may have found the answer to my own question.
In the UK our mobile/cellular numbers start with 07. If I send an iMessage from the iPad from a number starting in 07 it displays the names just fine but doesn't on my Iphone. If I send it from my iPhone it shows fine but not on my iPad.
The issue is clearly when the iMessages are synced. I think it may be because when the iMessages are sent to Apple's servers, these servers have to cope with lots of iMessages from lots of international places so to help them identify the messages and which countries they come from, they substitue (in my case) the 07 part of the message with the international dialling code +44 (UK code) as they would do for other countries and it is then the number with the international dialing code added that is synced with your other devices.

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