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Britain to Remember Terror Attack Victims

A memorial garden will be constructed in central London to commemorate the victims of the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced on Tuesday.

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A memorial garden will be constructed in central London to commemorate the victims of the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced on Tuesday.

The garden will be built at Grosvenor Square Garden near the American Embassy in London. It will consist of an oval with two flower beds on one side and an oak pergola with a classic pavilionon the other, said Jowell.

A stone centerpiece will carry an inscription remembering all the victims. More than 80 of the estimated 2,800 people who died when the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed were either British or had close ties to the country.

The British government will make up to one million pounds (1.5 million US dollars) available for the project, which is expected to be completed on September 11, 2003.

The families affected have been consulted about what plants will be grown and the design draws on their suggestions, said the secretary.

"Our intention is to provide a garden that will be simple, dignified and designed to the highest quality. It will also allow for privacy and seclusion for visitors," she said.

"We will all remember those we lost in our individual ways, buthaving a permanent, public memorial in central London will act as a focal point," said Tom Clarke, spokesman for the September 11 UKFamilies' Support Group.

A religious service will also be held at St. Paul's Cathedral on September 11, 2002, attended by Prince Charles and the US ambassador William S. Farish.

Services and memorial events will also take place in New York and across America on the first anniversary of the day hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The City of London has commissioned the creation of a church bell that will be sent to New York to be rung on September 11 in Trinity Church on Wall Street in the heart of the financial district.

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