Queen's Diamond Jubilee: London travel guide - Daily Telegraph
The Queen will also be attending the Epsom Derby on Saturday - tickets are still available through www.epsomdowns.co.uk. A Diamond Jubilee Concert is taking place on June 4, but the event is sold out.
On June 4, thousands of beacons will be lit around the world to mark the Queen's 60 years on the throne. To find out where your nearest beacon is, see www.diamondjubileebeacons.co.uk. And on June 5, a Diamond Jubilee Carriage Procession will take the Queen from Westminster Hall to Buckingham Palace, with thousands expected to line the streets.
There are also dozens of events taking place at the country's English Heritage properties, including Aspley House and Eltham Palace and Gardens in the capital. For a full list, see www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/events
Special exhibitions are also on at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, the Museum of London, the National Portrait Gallery, Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace.
As many as 10,000 street parties are also planned for the weekend. For tips on what food and drinks to serve your guests, and what to wear, see www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9284333/Queens-Diamond-Jubilee-Entertaining-guide.html
What else is there to do?
Telegraph Travel's London city break guide features the best things to see and do across the capital. There are also individual guides to London's districts.
Where to stay
Telegraph Travel has expert reviews of more than 75 hotels in London, the majority of which can be booked through the website at the lowest price guaranteed.
Many hotels have also launched a variety of Jubilee-themed offers, ranging from the tempting to the tenuous.
Restaurants
A number of restaurants and bars have unveiled themed menus in the run up to the Jubilee. Among the most bizarre dishes being coronation chicken ice cream, currently available at Gelupo in Soho.
Transport
Tube: Engineering works on the London Underground are few and far between this weekend, for a change, with just the Waterloo and City Line and parts of the London Overground facing closure. However, there will be no access to Buckingham Palace from Green Park station on Monday - visitors are advised to use Westminster or St James’s Park stations.
Roads: There will be a number of bus diversions and curtailments. Drivers are advised to avoid central London between June 3 and June 5. Sunday will be particularly busy due to a number of road and bridge closures. Seven London bridges will be closed to both road users and pedestrians for most of the day.
River: There will be no river services on Sunday June 3 from 1430 until 1800 between Battersea Bridge and the Thames Barrier at Woolwich.
For more information, see www.tfl.gov.uk
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London Welsh claim Championship title - Belfast Telegraph
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Now the club need another significant victory off the pitch if they are to claim a place among England's elite clubs next season.
London Welsh have outlined their determination to appeal the decision - made by the Professional Game Board and approved by the Rugby Football Union - to block their promotion.
Chairman Bleddyn Phillips vowed before the game that London Welsh, if crowned champions, would do "everything within our power" to overturn the RFU's decision.
London Welsh came into the second leg of the play-off final at Oxford's Kassam Stadium - their proposed Premiership home - with a 16-point advantage.
They overcame a spirited Pirates performance to seal victory on the night with tries from Hudson Tonga'hui and Jack Moates and 19 points from the boot of full-back Alex Davies.
The Pirates had threatened a comeback when wing Matt Evans finished an electric breakaway try to put them 13-6 ahead.
But by the time Ryan Storer drove over for a try five minutes from time, the Championship title was already heading to Old Deer Park.
The result will extend the uncertainty for Newcastle, who finished bottom of the Premiership but do not yet know whether they will be relegated.
"Hopefully everything off the pitch will get sorted now. We have given the RFU something to think about," London Welsh captain Jonathan Mills told Sky Sports 1.
London 2012: Rebecca Adlington To Avoid Twitter Following Taunts Over Her Looks - huffingtonpost.co.uk
Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington has vowed to avoid the internet during the London 2012 Games after being taunted over her looks and personality by online trolls.
The swimmer, who will defend two Olympic gold medals this summer, said she had been subjected to a number of "nasty" remarks on social networking sites that have left her upset and angry.
In an effort to focus on re-enacting her previous success in the pool, she is giving her Twitter account a wide berth during July and August.
Adlington, 23, who has nearly 50,000 followers on the microblogging site, told the Daily Mail: "I used to read all the stuff about me. I learned very quickly not to do that.
"Most things that I read about myself are not swimming related. They are to do with how I look, which has nothing to do with my performance in the pool. It's just nasty comments about things I can't control."
The swimmer added: "It is awful and I get angry. Even if there are 10 nice comments, you get one idiot. I've now given up. I won't be checking Twitter or going on it a lot during the Games. I think I will just tweet when its over."
The Nottinghamshire-born athlete, who took gold in the 400m and 800m freestyle at the Beijing 2008 Games, admitted she has to regularly use the block button on Twitter to stop people sending her cruel messages.
She said: "The messages of support are amazing but you do have the chance of someone saying something that is going to be annoying. You don't want that added stress. You don't want to be thinking about that."
"I can't help the way I look or who I am. People are not always going to like me but that has nothing to do with my swimming. That really gets me going."
The swimmer's comments come following recent reports that heptathlete and fellow Olympic hopeful Jessica Ennis was labelled fat by a senior figure at UK Athletics.
05/31/12 08:19 AM ET