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Tunisia Attack: Permanent Memorial For Victims

A permanent memorial for the 30 British victims of the Tunisia terror attack is to be created, David Cameron has announced.

Meanwhile, a second site of remembrance will be established for all British nationals who have been killed in atrocities overseas.

The Prime Minister said: "It is right that we mark and commemorate them and others murdered by terrorists overseas appropriately, and support the loved ones they have left behind in every way we can."

Over the coming months, bereaved relatives of the holidaymakers killed by a lone gunman in Sousse will be consulted on the memorial's location and design.

The families are being helped by Tobias Ellwood, a Foreign Office minister who has first-hand experience of losing a loved one in an overseas terrorist attack. In 2002, his brother Jonathan died in the Bali bombings.

Mr Ellwood has said the Tunisia attack memorial may be located in the north, which is where most of the victims were from.

He added: "Having been through a similar situation, I know how important it is that these families, who have been united by a single tragedy, have that marked in one place.

"They will end up providing mutual support to each other, and to have this memorial to their loved ones will be very important. It is also right that the nation recognises the scale of this appalling event."

The minister has long campaigned for a memorial to British victims of terrorism overseas, and welcomed the announcement that one is now being planned.

"We have to recognise there are many victims of terrorism who do not have a grave, whose families don't have a place where they can lay flowers and grieve in the normal way. These people must never be forgotten," he explained.

Both memorials are going to be funded through fines levied on banks by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Today, more inquests will be formally opened into the deaths of the holidaymakers in Sousse – and so far, West London Coroner's Court has opened inquests into 12 victims.

Tunisia's president has declared a state of emergency, and warned the country was "not safe" and at risk of collapse from further terror attacks.

In a televised address on Saturday, President Beji Caid Essebsi said an "exceptional situation required exceptional measures" - and he officially reintroduced urgent measures to tighten security nationwide.

The RAF has now completed their operation to repatriate the dead from Tunisia, and the final five bodies have arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.