Jim Swire

Exclusive Lockerbie families: Release official files 'in act of amnesty'

Dr Jim Swire, who has spent almost four decades searching for the truth about who murdered his daughter, Flora, and fellow passengers in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie

Dr Jim Swire: Only truth - not revenge - allows us to heal and forgive

Nicola Sturgeon

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Borders Book Festival, Melrose review: 'banter and rage'

Colin Firth on set in Bathgate, West Lothian, during the filming for Sky drama Lockerbie: A Search For Truth

Firth: Playing father of Lockerbie victim 'emotionally challenging'

Colin Firth plays Dr Jim Swire in the new Sky drama series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth.

Inside new Colin Firth drama following Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire

Exploring events from the disaster and its aftermath, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth provides an intimate account of a man, a husband, and a father who risks everything in memory of his daughter and the unflinching pursuit of truth and justice.

First trailer for Lockerbie drama series starring Colin Firth released

Colin Firth on set in Bathgate during filming for an upcoming Sky series about the Lockerbie bombing

In pictures: Colin Firth pictured on Lockerbie drama set in Bathgate

Colin Firth on set. Picture: John Devlin

Colin Firth pictured on set in upcoming Lockerbie bombing series

A new TV drama on the impact of the Lockerbie disaster is going into production this year. Picture: Roy Letkey

Lockerbie bombing TV drama to go into production this year

The remains of Pan Am Flight 103, photographed on 22 December 1988, in Lockerbie. PIC: Roy Leykey / AFP / Getty Images

Book review: The Lockerbie Bombing, by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Author Douglas Stuart will be appearing at this year's Aye Write festival.

Aye Write book festival line-up announced

d Dr Jim Swire. Picture: S Scott Taylor/J P License

Lockerbie anniversary not emotional occasion, says victim's father

Tourists que inside the airport in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Leaders: Security questions put pressure on Sisi

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Lockerbie bomber appeal case dropped

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Suspects wanted for Lockerbie bombing named

The fight for justice for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing continues. Picture: Getty Images

Leaders: New Lockerbie inquiry musn’t be pre-judged

The wreckage of flight Pan Am `03 is examined by police and investigators. Picture: AP

Lockerbie bombing: Judges reject Megrahi appeal

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi remains the only person convicted for the bombing of Pan Am 103. Picture: AP

High Court judge to rule on Lockerbie appeal

Megrahi was the only person convicted of the bombing. Picture: Getty

Lockerbie families bid to fight Megrahi conviction

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Libya reminder

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Investigation fear

The Garden of Rememberance in Lockerbie. Picture: Robert Perry

Chris Marshall: United quest for Lockerbie justice

Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi pictured in the Netherlands' Camp Zeist in 2002. Picture: AP

Lockerbie: Megrahi ‘pressured into appeal U-turn’

Investigators look at the wreckage of the cockpit section of Flight 103. Picture: Bryn Colton

Lockerbie movie will reveal truth of tragedy

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Lockerbie culprit

Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the Lockerbie bombing holds up a copy of the Daily Telegraph. Picture: Ian Rutherford

New Lockerbie appeal to be launched ‘within weeks’

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, left, died of cancer last year. Picture: Getty

Lockerbie: Family of bomber plans new appeal

Dr Jim Swire believes the man jailed for Lockerbie bomb was totally innocent. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Lockerbie campaigners to launch new Megrahi appeal

Campaigners will launch a further appeal to overturn the Megrahi guilty verdict. Picture: Getty

Dr Jim Swire: Lockerbie: seeking the truth

The Lockerbie bombing killed 270 people - the plane exploded over the town in 1988. Picture: Jane Barlow

Libya joins probe into Lockerbie bombing

Police and crash investigators examine the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. Picture: AP Credit

Lockerbie suspect to be named after ‘CIA cover-up’

Dr Jim Swire disputes al Megrahi's guilt. Picture: Neil Hanna

Lockerbie deaths inquiry Lord Advocate challenged

James Robertson, author of new novel 'The Professor of Truth'. Picture: James Barlow

James Robertson on the Lockerbie trial and his new novel

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Libyan Lockerbie pledge sparks sceptical reaction

Lockerbie campaigners hold out hope for independent inquiry

Lockerbie cover-up like Hillsborough, claim campaigners

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Author calls Megrahi’s cancer ‘a gift for those with something to hide’

Author calls Megrahi’s cancer ‘a gift for those with something to hide’

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Martin Hannan: No end in sight for Lockerbie

Martin Hannan: No end in sight for Lockerbie
The death of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was always going to produce mixed reactions. The only man yet to be convicted of the Lockerbie bombing endured a l...

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi: The Lockerbie bomber is dead

Leaders: Death of Megrahi does not close Lockerbie case

Megrahi death: Lockerbie attack crossed barriers of age, sex and nationality

Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi’s death a ‘sad event’ says Dr Jim Swire

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Lockerbie bombing: We need an objective Holyrood inquiry

Father of Lockerbie victim fears US plans to ‘abduct’ Megrahi

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Foreign minister Kusa tracked down to luxury Qatar resort

Secrets of terror, brutality and rape taken to the grave

Gaddafi: Bloody end for brutal dictator

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In their own words: world leaders celebrate the downfall of a tyrant

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Gaddafi ‘was killed by crossfire’ in Sirte assault

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Lockerbie relatives welcome Libyan inquiry offer

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Megrahi’s future

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'I fear that Megrahi may be shot by bin Laden-style hit squad'

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