Lockerbie

British

/ ˈlɒkəbɪ /

noun

a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a jumbo jet was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town

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The trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

John Hamilton, of Ark Vet Centre in Lockerbie, said they had 20,000 doses of the vaccine in stock at the start of the week but "that disappeared over 48 hours".

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The cables date back to the months before Lockerbie and include notes of conversations between Giaka and Holt and two earlier CIA handlers.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

At the Justice Department, Mueller prosecuted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

He died at Banpend village, near Lockerbie, on the 29th January, 1801, aged eighty-six.

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