Lockerbie

/ 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

Libyans had been waiting for this moment for more than 40 years, and victims of the Lockerbie bombing for more than 24 years.

William Underhills asks: How will the Lockerbie bombing convict survive the Libyan revolution?

Two years ago, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, was freed by a Scottish court.

He sent weapons to the Irish Republican Army, and he blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The trial of two Libyans accused in the Lockerbie bombing finally gets under way in 2000.

While we were thus at the fusion point of enthusiasm, the cars stopped at Lockerbie.

In my eagerness to prevent Lockerbie from insulting his guest, I drank nothing, myself, after the first cocktail.

Lockerbie's scowl was no joke; and Follet had a way of wriggling his backbone gracefully.

Lockerbie did a fair business in pearls; no great beauties or values among them, but a good marketable cheap product.

I saw Lockerbie scowl, and Follet wince, and some of the others stare.

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