British holiday information

Tickets for the 2012 Paralympics go on sale today using the same ticket application process that applied to the 2012 London Olympic tickets: applicants apply for tickets to events they wish to see and if the events are oversubscribed, a balloting process will take place. The application process begins at 9am today, 9 September 2011, [...]

An exclusive preview exhibition celebrating the upcoming 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games has opened at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Among eleven sculptures on display are lifesize wireframe studies of Olympic diver Tom Daley, and sprinter Jason Gardener. There are also eight bronze maquettes of athletes by artists including Paul Day, John Buckley, Hamish [...]

If you loved watching the Tour de France on the television recently, get yourself down to Surrey this Sunday, 14 August 2011, for the London – Surrey Cycle Classic. The London – Surrey Cycle Classic is a London 2012 test event and will follow the same route as the London 2012 Cycling Road Race. Among [...]

Here’s a novel way to spend Father’s Day if your dad is into trains. The London Transport Museum is operating a 1938 Tube train along the western end of the Piccadilly line this Sunday, 19 June 2011. The tube will leave Northfields traveling to High Street Kensington via Earl’s Court making an unusual cross over [...]

Brands Hatch has been unveiled at the venue for the London 2012 Paralympic Road Cycling events. The Kent circuit will play host to 32 road cycling events for men and women with a range of disabilities including visual impairments, cerebral palsy and amputations competing on bicycles, tricycles, tandems and hand cycles. In total, 225 athletes [...]

With all the hype surrounding London 2012 Olympic tickets, cloud-based email security and compliance solutions company, Proofpoint, is warning of potential email ticketing scams. The company is warning customers not to get too carried away and to be alert of phishing email scams. Below is an official quote from Proofpoint offering advice for anybody purchasing [...]

The deadline for registering to enter the ballot to obtain tickets for next year’s London Olympics is tonight – 23:59. The six-week registration process began on 15 March for tickets to the Game’s 650 sessions covering 26 sports over 17 days. Popular events, such as the men’s 100m final, have a limit of four tickets [...]

Travelodge has today knocked the Hilton hotel group off the top spot as London’s biggest hotel chain. With the opening of its 99-room Ealing Travelodge today, the chain now has 40 hotels with 5,714 rooms across the capital, and is the fastest growing hotel chain in the UK. After also announcing today that it has [...]

Who would have thought that London’s Clapham Common would become a campsite? Well, amazingly, there’s a lot of speculation suggesting that it could happen – well for the duration of the Royal Wedding, at least. The proposal is for a Clapham Common campsite which could accommodate up to 10,000 people for three nights – Thursday, [...]

A day doesn’t go by without a scam email of some sort landing in my inbox – a tax rebate, a bogus banking email requesting personal details because of an irregular online activity, or a PayPal phishing email. Now, with less than a month to go until tickets for the 2012 London Olympics go on [...]