Prince Harry has been named honorary president of England Rugby 2015 as the World Cup organisers mark one year to go until the tournament begins.
Last month, Olympic organisers marked the 500-day countdown to the Games.
"Not much shocks you on the gay scene," commented parade organiser Mark McKenzie, "but seeing Helen Mirren dressed as the Queen cussing and swearing and making you stop your parade – that's a new one".
Manchester organiser Mark Krantz said the "poorest will be going without" as a result of the Chancellor's statement on Wednesday.
Organiser Mark Walls said: "This was a fitting tribute to a young rider lost too early to the sport be loved.
London 2012 organisers have marked 100 days to go to the start of the Olympics by launching the slogan for the Games: "Inspire a generation".
Bersih says it has gone to great lengths to avoid chaos, with more than a thousand trained crowd managers to be present and organisers clearly marked, as well as professional medics.
Tournament organisers, who will mark the year-to-go milestone with a press conference at Salford's Media City on Friday, would be delighted by the involvement of a name as resonant in both rugby codes as Campese's, especially in Cardiff – where England also face Australia in the second part of a double-header under the Millennium Stadium roof on Saturday 26 October.
The other speakers present, who included the Harlem community organiser Cecil Corbin-Mark of We Act for Environmental Justice, Charles Komanoff of the Carbon Tax Centre, and Father Paul Mayer of the Climate Crisis Coalition, spoke about the inequity of a cap-and-trade system.
By choosing 27 May for the bearded march, organisers had hoped to mark the 21st anniversary of homosexuality's legalisation in Russia.
Organisers have been marking 500 days to go until the biennial event, which features sports such as swimming, beach volleyball and tennis.
