Renewed calls for Rescorla honour

A granite memorial to Rick Rescorla was unveiled in Hayle last year

The Prime Minister and President Bush are being urged to honour a Cornishman who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Rick Rescorla, who was a security guard in the World Trade Centre, led hundreds of people to safety before the twin towers collapsed.

The MP for St Ives, Andrew George, says Tony Blair and George Bush should use their meeting in Washington later this week to confer a posthumous award on Mr Rescorla.

Downing Street's Ceremonial Unit initially refused the MP's request saying Mr Rescorla from Hayle was a US citizen and not all of the people he rescued were British.

That caused fury in his home town of Hayle where a granite memorial to his bravery was unveiled last year.

The Prime Minister has agreed to review the case but no conclusion has been reached.

Mr Rescorla was granted US citizenship in the late 1960s.

The former Vietnam war veteran, who sang Cornish songs to keep up the spirits of those around him, was 62 when he died in the tower.