"It's really good to be here as when I last won 10 years ago on September 11 I was in DC watching the Pentagon burn from my hotel room," she told the audience at the awards ceremony in the Grosvenor House hotel in central London.

PJ Harvey on Tuesday night became the first artist to win the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize twice, after first winning it the day of the 9/11 attacks a decade ago.

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