"The accommodation has to be adequate and appropriate and has got to be provided in such a way that there are support services as well," she said.There has been a more enthusiastic response to the scheme in the north of England, where there is less pressure on housing and where many authorities participated in the programme to help refugees from Kosovo earlier this year.Among the first buildings to be used in the new scheme will be Clare House, a former social services building capable of housing up to 50 asylum- seekers in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where there is a large Kashmiri community.London's co-ordinator, Janet Haddington, estimated that there were 60,000 asylum-seekers now living in social services care in the capital.She said there was no more suitable and available accommodation for asylum-seekers in London and Kent, but added that those with good reason to remain in the capital would be allowed to stay, such as torture victims who were in need of specialist medical attention.. The dispersal of asylum-seekers was due to start yesterday as part of a voluntary interim arrangement that will stay in place until April, and foreshadow the new system for handling asylum-seekers laid out in the newly passed Asylum and Immigration Act.Barbara Roche, the minister responsible for immigration, denied there was a danger that asylum-seekers would end up being housed on "sink estates", the name given to accommodation that is only spare because nobody else is prepared to live in it. There is not a lot of spare stock we can use."The Ministry of Defence may be approached as a last resort to supply accommodation, he added.Tensions are already running high in coastal towns where asylum-seekers have been housed. The co-ordinator for the Eastern region, Robin Rennie, said that in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, local people had complained that their children were being denied school places offered to the children of asylum-seekers."Some areas are at saturation point and it would be counter-productive to put any more [asylum-seekers] in," Mr Rennie said.Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, the chief executive of Kent County Council, which is housing around 6,000 asylum-seekers, said that, while some councils had been "extremely helpful", they had not always managed to identify the required 6,000 places a month.The Local Government Association, which is organising the programme, described it as a "huge logistical feat".

The 10 regions receiving the asylum- seekers are each expected to take about 260 heads of household a month.But Mike Robinson, the regional co-ordinator for the South-west, said: "The feasibility of actually receiving thatnumber per month must be in doubt."He added that demand for accommodation in the South-west was high compared to the number of empty houses.Asylum-seekers had already filled most of the empty accommodation in the South central region, in places such as Portsmouth and Bournemouth, said the area's co-ordinator, Robert Watts: "They need to build around a million homes in the South. Officials chosen to coordinate the programme warned yesterday that targets for rehousing asylum-seekers were unlikely to be met, and expressed fears of rising racial tension if people were placed in inappropriate locations. The project aims to relieve pressure on local authorities in London and Kent, by dispersing around 6,500 asylum-seekers a month, including 1,300 families and 1,300 single adults. A NEW programme to settle thousands of asylum-seekers around Britain is being undermined by the chronic shortage of housing available in many parts of the country. "This was the seventh "Air and Style" festival and there had never been an accident before."What happened was a total tragedy and bad luck. There was 20 per cent more security than was asked for, with 160 security guards instead of 130 as well as 60 policemen in uniform and 20 more in plain clothes."Mr Hourmount said: "Nothing could have been done to make the event safer This was a tragedy.". It was to be refitted in 2001.A company spokesman, Thomas Blazek, denied the safety and security measures were inadequate."Andrew Hourmount knows how to organise these kinds of events," he said.

Beer and hot mulled wine were sold at the event.Rescue workers and police sources said it appeared that a crowd of spectators leaving the Olympic stadium had slipped on an icy slope and slid into the barrier that gave way, causing a pile-up and panic in the mass of people behind.Apparently, several sporting associations had warned recently that the stadium, built for the 1964 winter Olympics, was "no longer fit to use". Four were Austrian teenagers and the fifth was a 21-year-old Australianfrom Sydney. The exit barrier that gave way pitched people down a steep slope on top of each other. Mr Herwig van Staa, the Innsbruck mayor, told state television that "many youths were heavily intoxicated". A BRITON is being investigated by Austrian police over the disaster that struck a weekend snowboarding festival at the ski resort of Innsbruck, killing five people and injuring 39. The organiser Andrew Hourmount, 39, is among those being investigated for negligence leading to manslaughter over safety measures at the "Air and Style" display when a barrier gave way at the Bergisel stadium and the crowd panicked The five who died were aged 14 to 21. Visitors will enter by an escalator in the male's right arm and leave through one of the female figure's legs..

We will show an idiot sperm attempting to swim the wrong way."The Dome organiser, the New Millennium Experience Company, gave details last month of the Body Zone's heart room, where a giant heart will beat normally until alarming incidents double its rate, and the brain room, where a brain will tell jokes in the voice of the latecomedian Tommy Cooper.The zone features 90ft-high and 200ft-long male and female sculpted figures in a gentle embrace. The music will increase in intensity throughout the film, and the walls and floor of the zone's womb room will rock. The 45-second film has taken more than three months of painstaking computer animation by the British company Framestore, which made the BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs.John Hackney, head of the creative team behind the Body Zone shows, said: "The film is designed to be exciting and entertaining and we have sought to show the sperm behaving like a tribe of predatory fish There are moments of humour as well. Visitors to the giant reclining figures in the Dome's Body Zone will see the computer-animated race, set against African drumming and chanting recorded in Senegal by Doudou Ndayie Rose, a septuagenarian father of 38 children. SEX WILL feature in the Millennium Dome, with visitors treated to a womb's-eye view of human sperm racing to fertilise an egg, it was announced yesterday. "There is not euthanasia in the NHS and there never has been," he said.. "In my opinion letting her die was the easiest option because she was a bit of nuisance. They are killing off old people - that is what is happening."The British Medical Association said in guidelines issued last summer that feeding a patient through a tube is regarded as medical treatment and may, in certain circumstances, be withdrawn but oral feeding should never be withdrawn.A BMA spokeswoman said: "It would be flying in the face of reality to say elderly patients are never neglected but we don't accept they are being starved to death to free beds."John Hutton, the Health minister, dismissed claims of involuntary euthanasia as ludicrous.