The organisers, " Insight ", claimed that there were 30, 000 marchers ; Lord Widgery, in his now discredited tribunal, said that there were only 3, 000 to 5, 000.

" Loach said he had a " respectful and reasoned " conversation with event organisers, saying they should not be accepting funds from Israel.

Extensive negotiations from local officials and organisers were required to dissuade Harbhajan and captain Sourav Ganguly from leaving the area after Ganguly said that the Indian team would abandon the scheduled match against Zimbabwe.

Estimates of the number of people there vary: The Irish Times claimed 35, 000 people were present ; the News of the World, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Express claimed 100, 000 ; the lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster, Arthur Aughey, claimed over 200, 000 people were there ; and the organisers of the meeting said 500, 000 attended.

On 2 September 2009, it was reported that Harlequins had escaped being thrown out of the Heineken Cup following the scandal when the board of organisers European Rugby Cup ( ERC ) said it approved of the bans and fines already handed out.

On November 7, 2006 the HaEdah HaCharedis said it was considering placing the curse on the organisers of the gay pride parade scheduled to march in Jerusalem on November 10, 2006.

The Australian Medical Association described the group's views as " dangerous ", and said organisers " had a responsibility to add speakers who could provide the medically approved side of the argument " so the audience were aware of " the risk of the information being presented Ms Dorey ".

The National Coursing Club and the organisers of the Waterloo Cup – the most important event in the UK coursing calendar – each said that, on average, one in seven or eight hares coursed were killed.

The Raise Your Banners director said organisers did not believe the claims of anti-semitism.

On the day itself, police did call the march off for a time, and there was a level of confusion among the public about whether or not the march would be going ahead, however they eventually relented when the organisers said they would go ahead anyway and when a number of protesters started to head toward Edinburgh as an alternative protest site.

On 21 January 2007 a decision was made by the organisers to discourage Big Day Out patrons in Sydney from bringing and displaying the Australian flag.

The organisers initially continued the rally despite the incident, but in a later official statement stated that the clear details of the incident and confirmation of a fatality didn't occur until some hours after the briefing, at which point the decision to cancel the remainder of the rally was made.

Despite some protests, Homebake organisers explained on Triple J's Hack ' program that each year the all ages liquor licence was becoming harder to obtain, and compared to their research showing that attendance for the event by underagers was between 5 to 8 % influenced the decision to go 18 +.

Also any lateness incurred due to a decision of the organisers or force majure ( i. e. an alteration of the route or hold-up ) is not counted against the total lateness.

The mayor wants to force the organisers by court decision to cease every program between 6 pm and 10 am-which virtually means closing down the festival.

However, after extensive discussions between Oyé ’ s organisers and the council, the decision was reversed and Oyé continued to be a free and unfenced festival.

The popularity of Raymond van Barneveld in his own country possibly contributed to the decision by the Dutch organisers to invite the PDC players.

The organisers officially attributed this decision to the state of the course and a clash of dates with The Players Championship on the U. S .- based PGA Tour, but some media commentators dismissed these reasons since the tournament had clashed with the Players Championship the previous year as well, and attributed the cancellation to sponsor discontent with the sanctioning changes.

In 2012, organisers made the decision to return the festival to its roots as a University celebration, re-branding the event as Stone Day, giving it a fresh new look and feel and returning tickets to the student-friendly price of $ 25.

In 1964 there was only a one-day march, partly because of the events of 1963 and partly because the logistics of the march, which had grown beyond all expectation, had exhausted the organisers.

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote to organisers of a Swedish book fair to which Singer was invited that " A professor of morals ... who justifies the right to kill handicapped newborns ... is in my opinion unacceptable for representation at your level.

Heydrich was one of the organisers of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany on the night of 9 – 10 November 1938.

One of the organisers of these demonstrations was the well known radical left wing LSE student Tariq Ali.

The United South of England Eleven ( USEE ) had been formed by Edgar Willsher in 1865 but the heyday of the travelling teams was over and their organisers were desperate to feature new attractions.

Despite a falling out between the organisers ( see controversy below ) a successful event was held in Alexandra Palace the next year in 2000.

According to the organisers of a recent Hrabal exhibition in Brno, his biological father was “ probably ” Bohumil Blecha ( b. 1893-d, 1970 ), who was a year older than Marie, a friend from the neighbourhood and the son of a teacher.

In 1997, organisers Ken West and Vivian Lees announced they were taking a year off, causing concern that the festival was coming to an end.

It is believed that the first occurrence of a trophy being presented to the winner of a race was in 1512 by organisers of a fair in Chester and was a small wooden ball decorated with flowers.

The race was run 48 hours later on the Monday, with the meeting organisers offering 20, 000 tickets with free admission.

Further, municipal event organisers were told that singing of the Royal Anthem was not allowed and the loyal toast to the Queen was to be replaced with a toast to the Governor General, all of which not only disregarded precedent but also grated on prairie sensitivities.

Although the organisers had obtained permission, this was revoked, and the march was broken up by the police.

In 2003, the festival organisers responded to claims that the event was becoming too commercialised by implemented a scaled-down, grassroots approach.

The 2010 party was not held on the night of the parade and was later described by the organisers as human error during scheduling.

As a charity fundraiser, the concert far exceeded its goals: on a television programme in 2001, one of the organisers stated that while initially it had been hoped that Live Aid would raise £ 1 million with the help of Wembley tickets costing £ 25. 00 each, the final figure was £ 150 million ( approx.

The organisers expected an enraged reaction due to the cancellation of the concert, but when Dalida came onstage and explained to her fans that she couldn't perform, she was met with great applause and her name echoed everywhere.

The parade organisers refuse to allow gay people to march under their banner, and there was media speculation that this was the reason for the refusal.

Tournament organisers could then apply the percentages to their own tournament format and declare in advance the actual score that participants must achieve to attain a GM or IM result ( nowadays referred to as a norm ).

This led to there being talk of corruption from event organisers against teams from the western part of the country, and as a result teams from that zone refused to take part in any of the following Championships.

Originally, UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours had been unable to come to terms on the 2006 UCI ProTour, with the result that the status of both the Grand Tours and some of the other races organised by those organisations behind the Grand Tours was unclear until well into the season, but they were eventually included.

The films may be of recent date and, depending upon the focus of the individual festival, can include international releases as well as films produced by the organisers ' domestic film industry.

To allow for greater inclusion of the LGBTQI community it represents ( including those identifying as bisexual, transexual, queer and intersex ), on 17 November 2011 the festival and event organisers changed the event name to " Sydney Mardi Gras ".

It was then shown to the media and public at the Bathurst 1000 race a week before the HRT 427 was unveiled at the Sydney Motor Show, Garth Tander driving a lap of the Mt Panorama circuit in the rain — Holden Motorsport's promotion of the ' rival ' 24 Hour race having bought promotional track time from the 1000 event organisers, not pleasing V8 Supercar management.

The organisers of Homelands were also behind the Home Nightclubs chain including Home Nightclub in London and Sydney.