Relatives of British victims of the September 11 terror attacks welcomed news that prosecutors will push for the death penalty in the New York trials of five alleged plotters.

Relatives of those who died in the September 11 terror attacks will remember their loved ones as they descend a ramp into Ground Zero this week.

Controversial director Oliver Stone’s film about the devastating September 11 attacks opens in the US tonight.

Director Oliver Stone has begun shooting one of the first Hollywood films about the September 11 2001 attacks in New York – without recreating the large-scale devastation all too familiar to people who lived through the outrage.