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Gordon Brown pledged the continuing "support of the British people for America" on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
The Prime Minister said he would be phoning US president George Bush later and urged people to remember all those who died in the attacks.
Almost 3,000 people, including 67 Britons, were killed when terrorists hijacked aircraft and flew them into New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11 2001.
Robert Tuttle, the US ambassador to Britain, laid a wreath at a memorial near the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, central London, at 8am to honour the British victims.
Simultaneous concerts will be held on both sides of the Atlantic to mark the anniversary.
After performances featuring musicians who lost loved ones in the atrocity, audiences in London and New York will join the artists in a rendition of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's classic Let It Be.
More than 200 free concerts have been organised across the world on the seventh anniversary. London's concert will take place in Grosvenor Square at the same time as performers take to the stage in the British Memorial Garden in Hanover Square, New York.
Performers in London will include Coventry singer/songwriter Rob Halligan, whose father died in the World Trade Centre.
Singer Kris Buckle, the London Welsh Chorale and South African opera singer Siphiwo Ntshebe are also on the bill.
The annual concerts were the brainchild of New York businesswoman Hakuro Smith, who in 2002 decided to try to turn September 11 from a day of anguish into "a day of music to celebrate our universal humanity".
