The British ambassador to the US says the UK is close to identifying the Islamic State militant who murdered American James Foley.
The IS extremist who beheaded the journalist in a video released last week was believed to be British.
Ambassador Peter Westmacott told CNN: "We are very close to identifying who this guy is."
The security services MI5 and MI6 have reportedly worked out the identity of Mr Foley's killer, known as "Jihadi John". But the Sunday Times said no details have been disclosed.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said the beheading was "an utter betrayal of everything the British people stand for".
Writing in the newspaper, he said it was horrifying that the perpetrator "could have been brought up in Britain".
He said the Government was investing "significant resources" to tackle "a barbaric ideology", warning if the IS militants are not stopped in Iraq and Syria "sooner or later they will seek to strike us on British soil".
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