Prices for the rides are capped at pounds 1.50.Visitors to London will also see three illuminated sculptures, each more than 20ft high – a figure of the giant Atlas carrying the world, a winged horse and a Pied Piper.Attractions will include a Millenni-Mum, a huge sculpture of a mother holding her child which will be on the south bank of the Thames by Oxo Tower Wharf.The giant street party is being funded by corporate sponsorship and by a pounds 1.8m grant from the Millennium Lottery Commission.. It will be one of two fairs – the other will be in Potter’s Field – and both will have a mixture of modern and traditional rides. They will be joined by 20 drumming ensembles, wandering musicians and street theatre acts.The stages, decorated with huge painted silk clothes, will be at Jubilee Gardens in the shadow of the Millennium Wheel, Ministry of Defence Green, Royal Festival Hall and Gabriel’s Wharf.Victoria Embankment under Waterloo Bridge which will be transformed into a club space where some of the capitals DJs will entertain the crowds until 2am when all events are planned to end.The Queen and Tony Blair will be using lasers during the celebrations to start special events: the Prime Minister will use one to start the London Eye wheel on its inaugural revolution and the Queen will fire a laser from the Tower of London to light the biggest of 12 beacons – one is situated at each of the stages and one on each bridge – to mark the end of the century.The Queen has also given permission for The Mall to host its first fairground. But despite the styles of music ranging from Asia to Cuba, and most places in between, the musicians all live in the capital.

The fireworks will be the best ever seen in Britain.”Fireworks will follow 30 seconds after the river of fire, and will be launched from 16 barges between the Tower and Vauxhall bridges, filling the sky for 15 minutes.Artists appearing on the five stages include the Jamaican reggae singer Bim Sherman, Cubana and the DJ Patrick Forge.All performers appearing have been chosen to reflect London’s ethnically diverse population. It will take just 10.8 seconds for the flames to travel the two and a half miles between Tower Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge.Harvey Goldsmith, the promoter, who is helping to organise the day’s activities, said: “The river of fire is going to be absolutely spectacular It will be our offering to the world. The chimes of Big Ben – with its four faces illuminated by giant pulsating spotlights – will be used to time the fireworks ignition.On the 12th bong, a “river of fire”, 200 metres high, will streak up the Thames at the same speed as the planet rotates. They will pause only for 39 tonnes of fireworks to illuminate the capital.
The organisers say London’s celebrations will be the biggest in the world because the city is “the home of time”. Black people comprise 2 per cent of the national population and Asians 3 per cent. Most white people were stopped and searched on suspicion of possessing stolen property; most blacks and Asians were suspected of carrying drugs.. DETAILS OF the plans for the millennium celebrations along the Thames in London were unveiled by the Government last night.

Music from around the world will be played on five stages over 12 hours by 46 acts. Yesterday’s report showed the imbalance had increased, even though it covers the time of the inquiry into the killing of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence.The Home Office report states: “For the majority of police forces, it was apparent that the number of stops and searches relative to the resident population was consistently higher for black people than for white people.”Police made just over one million stops and searches under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act during 1998-99, with 9 per cent of the suspects black and 5 per cent Asian. The Home Office has published statistics showing that black people are now six times more likely to be stopped and searched than whites, which appears to contradict recent claims that police officers have become reluctant to stop black suspects for fear of being accused of racism.
Some police forces are 10 times more likely to stop a black person than a white, with up to one in three members of the black population in some areas searched every year.Paul Cavadino, director of policy at the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, described the findings as disturbing.”No sensible person can claim that the racially biased use of stop-and- search powers helps to cut crime,” he said.”In the long run it could well have the reverse effect, by alienating young black people further from the police and the criminal justice process.”Last year’s race and criminal justice statistics revealed that blacks were five times more likely than whites to be stopped. THE FREQUENCY with which black people are stopped and searched by the police – already disproportionate – is getting worse, despite the criticisms made by the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. At least one child was rescued after Operation Kimbe in April, in which police used computer images to identify 19 people involved in child abuse Some have been prosecuted. The detectives who will examine the computers seized yesterday say images of paedophilia cannot be eradicated.