The mother-of-three, whose two other children were staying with their father for the weekend, was later seen enjoying the warm weather and paddling in the river with her son.The alarm was raised several hours later after staff found Joey, along with his pushchair. He was taken to Basildon Hospital for treatment for hypothermia where he was last night said to be making good progress.Mrs Issacs, from Grays, had gone to the club at about 3pm and had a drink at the bar. Staff said she had been in good spirits and bought a ticket for a Valentine's Day dance that evening. The company insists that it has not signed any contracts with the investment bank Goldman Sachs to handle the sale of the structure in Greenwich, south-east London, valued at about pounds 40m.A decision on the future use of the site would, however, be taken in 2000, the group said.The announcement came after reports that Goldman Sachs had been called in to find a buyer to redevelop the building at the end of 12 months of celebrations.A number of parties including a consortium led by banking giant HSBC and P&O, which owns Earl's Court and Olympia exhibition venues in west London, were believed to be interested.A spokesman for the New Millennium Experience Company said: "The position is that we have not entered into any contract with Goldman Sachs or anybody else."Reports said the new owner would be required to retain the Dome's superstructure but would be able to redevelop the interior for leisure, hotel, theme park or exhibition use.. Officers are also investigating the possibility that Jackie Issacs deliberately took her own life. Last night, more than 24 hours after Mrs Issacs was last seen, police had still found no trace of her.Her 21-month-old son Joey was found naked and semi-conscious at around 7.30pm on Saturday night outside the Thurrock Yacht Club, in Grays, Essex, on the banks of the River Thames. POLICE believe the mother of a baby found abandoned at a riverside yacht club may have drowned after swimming in the unseasonally warm water.
"The idea is you would be able to physically go inside and there will be designs and interactive exhibits looking at functions of the body, medicine and health in the future."A large-scale model of the figure could be ready for 24 February, when Peter Mandelson, the minister in charge of millennium celebrations, will unveil some of the Dome's top attractions. "There will be a body in the dome and it will be on that kind of scale," the spokesman said."No decision has yet been taken on whether it will be androgynous, male, or female."He dismissed as "speculation" reports that the figure was originally male, but executives had decided to build a huge mother figure - dubbed Britannia - which would be accompanied by the smaller figure of a child.But he confirmed that the steel and glass fibre body will house exhibits. The ceremony will provide Mr Mandelson with a key platform to impress potential corporate sponsors of the pounds 758m project.The New Millennium Experience has denied putting the Dome up for sale. Sitting or reclining on the floor of the Dome with its limbs spreading out for hundreds of feet, the figure will still reach the roof 170ft above, he said. And at 320ft long it will be nearly 20ft longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall. A GIANT silver figure, larger than the Statue of Liberty, will take centre stage in the Millennium Dome, officials confirmed yesterday. But executives from the New Millennium Experience Company, who are overseeing the project, are still arguing about its sex, a spokesman said. It must be said that the Princess was adept at marketing herself in her lifetime, and that souvenir merchandise featuring the Queen has been sold for decades, without diminishing the respect in which the monarch is held.Sometimes, though, the line is easy to draw.It did not take the memorial fund long to dismiss one licence application: for a bumper sticker that read "Bye bye, Di".Diana's friend, Rosa Monckton, sought yesterday to quash the mounting speculation surrounding her death.In an article in the Sunday Telegraph, she said that the Princess had not been pregnant, that she had not planned to marry Dodi Fayed, and that conspiracy theories about the car crash in which she died were "farcical nonsense"..
"May her light continue to shine", says the ad.The memorial fund has also given its blessing to a beanbag soft toy, and to a Princess Diana scratchcard.On Carnaby Street, traders defended their right to sell Diana-related wares including spoons, calendars, egg-timers and T-shirts bearing slogans such as The Queen of Hearts "It's what the public wants," said one. Some money from products licensed by the fund goes to Diana's charities, but it is arguable whether the merchandise itself is more tasteful than the bootleg knick-knacks.An advertisement in Saturday's Daily Telegraph magazine, for example, offered a gold-bordered porcelain plate with a picture of Diana in tiara and pearls for pounds 19.95. "If people want to buy these things, they should be allowed to buy them."Other commentators attacked the elitism of the Prime Minister's comments, pointing out, for instance, that the sale of beads from the Princess's dresses - made into earrings, at pounds 1,000 a pair - could also be regarded as inappropriate.In effect, the role of referee in all of this has fallen to trustees of the Princess's memorial fund, after lawyers for her estate won a court ruling last year that gave it control of the souvenir trade. IN CARNABY STREET - one of London's main tourist traps for souvenir- hunters - street traders were yesterday hawking T-shirts, mugs, plates and tea towels bearing the face of Diana, Princess of Wales. These, presumably, are among the "tacky and inappropriate" products to which Tony Blair was referring at the weekend when he condemned the frenzy to cash in on the Princess's death through books, films and paraphernalia. A host of senior politicians yesterday echoed his criticism, including John Major, guardian of the financial interests of Princes William and Harry, who said he hoped that the public would "ignore tasteless material".William Hague, the Conservative leader, said the recent speculation about Diana's death was hurtful to the boys, while Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrat leader, said: "We must not allow this to degenerate into bad taste and cheap money-making."All worthy sentiments, with which few would disagree.
