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Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Nine years after the death of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Jim Swire, whose daughter was murdered in the 1988 terror attack, tells Michael Alexander why he believes Iran, not Libya, masterminded the bombing. Transfixed before the TV, Dr Jim Swire and his wife Jane were paralysed with dread as the breaking news emerged that a Pan American jumbo jet with more than 250 people on board had crashed ...

A songwriting genius, a rock critic and a journalist who unveiled his family’s involvement in slavery are among the headliners as the Aye Write book festival in Glasgow starts tomorrow.Fairport

Justice For Megrahi committee appears on stage for Q&A after David Benson's play Lockerbie: Unfinished Business. Dr Jim Swire taking part in the question and answer session. St John's Church, Edinburgh, copyright Julie Howden Newsquest JIM Swire tells a story about a visit he made to the man convicted of the bombing of Pan-Am 103, the atrocity that killed 270 people including his daughter Flora. In the late stages of cancer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi sat on his bed propped on pillows. By this point Swire considered him innocent of the murder of his daughter. The very last words Megrahi spoke to...

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QC and author Ross Macfarlane Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer is the debut novel from Ross Macfarlane, QC, a featured author at this year's Aye Write literary festival. ​ Already well known to readers of ​the Evening News and ​The Scotsman​, Macfarlane introduced Kane ​and ​Mr Horse in a series of ​short stories in the papers and reveals that the origins of his unlikely double-act lie in his love of Charles Dickens. The Senior Advocate, who lives in the New Town, recalls, "I was researching a story about the visit of Charles Dickens to Edinburgh in 1841​ ​and disco...