Her French-born father, Patrice, 37, had tried to hold on to his wife and baby, but was overcome by the strength of the waters. Mr Richard's son, Richard Smith, was swimming off a beach in Sri Lanka with his child and his partner, Deirdre, when the wave hit. Both he and Deirdre were injured and their son was swept out of their arms.A six-month-old baby and her mother are also feared dead. The two-month-old grandson of the actor Eric Richard, who played Sergeant Bob Cryer in ITV's The Bill for 17 years, is feared to be one of the youngest victims of the disaster. Over a week since the tsunami struck, more than 7,000 Europeans are missing. Most are presumed dead.Hopes were fading yesterday for the lives of two British babies lost in the waters. But reports have suggested the British death toll could rise to more than 100, as dozens of people are still unaccounted for.

Cars would be permitted for short journeys, but banned on the motorway, replaced instead with high-quality buses and, eventually, bullet trains that would allow people to get from one part of the supercity to the next at high speed.Turning the Bladerunner-style vision into a reality may seem a long way off, but Alsop said the plans are more viable than first appears."Much of the infrastructure is in place to allow this to happen in the not-too-distant future," he said. The best thing about it would be that each stack would be built within a mile or so of the motorway, giving access to views of the countryside and easy travel between different areas."Setting out his vision for the supercity, the ebullient architect said: "The whole point of the Stacks, or villages, is that they should have a bit of everything, a proper place to live, somewhere to go and have a drink, somewhere to work or study."People will zip from Stack to Stack at high speed on improved transport facilities. Happily, venture capitalists stepped in at the 11th hour.His new vision focuses, for now, on an 80-mile-long, 15-mile-wide corridor along the M62 from Liverpool to Hull, which will, for example, encourage people to live in Hull, commute to work in Liverpool, shop in Leeds and go out in Manchester, all in 24 hours.The exhibition will be held at the Urbis centre for contemporary urban culture in Manchester this month, and will show Alsop's vision of a "beautiful urban sprawl", with large-scale models of the Stacks, planned to range in real-life up to 15 storeys high, and housing up to 5,000 people.Alsop said yesterday: "The buildings would form villages, where people can live, go and meet someone for a drink or a meal. It would provide everything that a normal village has, the only difference being that it is a vertical village, rather than a horizontal one."People may think the concept of broadening a city's boundaries would create further isolation, but if you look at a lot of residential areas and estates on the outskirts of cities, people are already isolated."With this approach to living, the village you live in can form part of your identity, and you can easily travel to other villages to work or meet people. Representing horizontal modern villages, the buildings would encapsulate all living needs.Alsop, who has had a string of successes, including the acclaimed Peckham Library in south London, faced serious financial consequences last year after several projects including the Fourth Grace in Liverpool were cancelled.

Waking up in one city, commuting to work in the next, before heading out for a night on the town in a third may seem the stuff of nightmares to many. But to the architect Will Alsop, it is a dream for the future. Several other doctors from the temple have volunteered to return home but more doctors were needed, she said.. There is little you can do watching television, but this is my skill and I can do that," she said.Since Boxing Day, she and her family have been helping to collate aid packages at the London Buddhist Vihara temple in Chiswick. I'm going to volunteer [again] because otherwise there's no one to do it, and they stay and they rot and they don't get a proper burial."'I felt so helpless watching TV, but this is my skill and I can help'Kanchana Rajarathna, 24, will visit the area where her mother was born next week, not for a celebratory homecoming but in an attempt to save lives.Qualified just four months, the British-born doctor has volunteered to travel to a remote part of Sri Lanka to offer medical aid to survivors.Her mother, Kirthie, 61, a computer analyst, and father, Bandula, 62, an engineer, will cook and distribute food in a shelter in Valana, near Panadura.The junior doctor at Milton Keynes General Hospital will spend her annual leave helping the relief effort "I felt so helpless. Yvonne Wetham, in Takua Pa, north of Khao Lak in Thailand, said: "We did it because we were there and there was no one else to do it. Our general policy is that we will not take people off the street and send them to an emergency.

We are looking specifically for people with a public health background, people who can deal with infectious diseases and immunisation campaigns, people who have experience working overseas in this kind of area and in disasters."Many tourists in the affected areas are already helping to recover bodies. We send only experienced volunteers."The group has doctors, nurses and engineers in Sri Lanka and Indonesia but is asking those calling in to consider applying to work on other, long-term regional projects.Annie Macklow-Smith, of the emergency humanitarian health care organisation Merlin said:."A lot of Sri Lankan doctors and nurses living outside the country have gone back.We have had an enormous amount of calls from people offering to help. But the charities said taking on people unused to disaster zones would be too difficult or too dangerous and appealed to them to help with other projects."We have had loads of calls from people to be flown outs but we are sending only vetted people, water engineers, logisticians and nutritionists," Claire Lewis, of Oxfam, said. "Teachers, plumbers, ex-soldiers, builders have all been phoning but that is not what we do. We try to recruit locally as much as possible because it puts money back into the economy."Instead Oxfam has appealed for 10,000 volunteers to man shops around the country in an effort to cope with the enormous number of donations.Martyn Broughton of Med?ns Sans Fronti?s, said: "In a hot, messy situation like this it can burn new volunteers They may not be ready. A spokesman said: "Sky is disgusted at the abuse of this message board, which is designed for friends and relatives caught up in the tsunami disaster.". Plumbers, builders and doctors have been overwhelming charity lines, offering to travel to areas devastated by the tsunami.

In the past week, Britons, and particularly those with origins in the 12 countries struck by the disaster, have offered help. In a further boost, Independent News & Media, publishers of The Independent, has announced contributions of more than £110,000 to emergency relief for the victims of the tsunami.Sir Anthony O'Reilly, the chief executive officer of Independent News & Media, said: "A disaster of this magnitude leaves us all feeling somewhat helpless The enormity of it is almost incomprehensible. However, we also need to offer practical and immediate aid."Charities said they had also been inundated by people offering to help rebuild the stricken areas. The agony of it is evident from our screens and our newspapers, and in many cases is becoming increasingly personal to our readers around the world."Our thoughts and our prayers are with the victims and those who have been left destitute by its impact. The man was freed on bail later that day, but was arrested for a second time late on Saturday and brought to a central London police station for questioning."We are treating this as a very serious crime," a spokes-man for the police said "These messages are hoaxes.