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12 January 2007
A total of 202 people - including 28 Britons - died in the explosions on the Indonesian island on October 12 2002.
In Britain, there will be no official service, but the brother of one of the victims said each family would be remembering their loved one privately instead.
Tobias Ellwood, who lost his brother Jonathan, said: "We will all be thinking of our loved ones.
"I was in Afghanistan a short while ago. While I was out there, I heard there are still huge efforts to eradicate the al Qaida training camps on the Pakistan border. It reminds me of what a dangerous world we still live in."
A permanent memorial in honour of all 202 victims - a marble globe with 202 doves carved into it - was unveiled by the Prince of Wales in St James's Park a year ago.
In a statement to mark the anniversary, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
He said: "This atrocity is now forever a tragic chapter in our nation's story.
"Those who perpetrated the attacks sought to sow division and hatred. Instead the Bali bombings brought the peoples of Australia and Indonesia closer together."
People from 21 countries died when two bombs ripped through a bar and nightclub in the popular tourist area of Kuta in Bali.
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