Memorial for terror victims planned at National Memorial Arboretum
A planned memorial for British victims of terrorism, including Shropshire's Sally Adey, is to be located at the National Memorial Arboretum, David Cameron has announced.
A panel headed by former overseas development minister Baroness Chalker will now be appointed to select an artist and design for the site in Staffordshire.
The announcement follows a public consultation on the choice of location for the memorial which will be formally unveiled in summer 2017.
Separate consultation is to be launched for a memorial for the victims of the Sousse and Bardo Museum terrorist attacks in Tunisia in 2015.
Among those killed in the attacks was Mrs Adey, from Caynton, between Shifnal and Albrighton, who lost her life in the attack at the Bardo Museum in March 2015.
She was the only Britain to die in the Tunisia massacre, gunned down as she toured a museum with her husband Rob. Student Joel Richards, 19, his uncle Adrian Evans and grandfather Patrick Evans, all from the West Midlands, were among those gunned down on a beach in Sousse a year ago.
Speaking before leaving the Nato summit in Warsaw, Mr Cameron said: "These memorials will be places where the family and friends of people killed in terrorist attacks can reflect and remember. By building them we are underlining our pledge to never forget the victims of these atrocities.
"An attack on British people anywhere in the world is an attack on us all. But these memorials will also stand as proof that we will not give up our way of life in the face of terrorism wherever it may be."
