Lockerbie agony

RELATIVES are still suffering from the loss of loved ones in the Lockerbie terror attack nearly 30 years on.

With every twist, the tragic memories are stirred up once again.

This time it’s about then PM Margaret Thatcher trying to deny victims compensation and claims security services bugged family members.

Jim Swire has campaigned for three decades to get answers. He’s watched the court case, he’s questioned judicial decisions, he’s experienced the trauma of Megrahi’s release and death.

He’s petitioned parliament for years and seen appeals come and go. The latest revelation can only fuel suspicions the state has not been open about the affair.

For the authorities, it will be an unwanted diversion days after police ruled there had been no criminality in the prosecution of the Lockerbie bombing case.

It’s not the relatives that needed observation, it was the terrorists.

ALL Russian men aged 16 to 60 have been barred from travelling to Ukraine.

President Petro Poroshenko announced the move yesterday as tension between the neighbouring countries escalated.

He said the restriction would stop Russians from forming “private armies” fighting on Ukrainian soil.

Russia has supported separatists in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed at least 10,000 people since 2014.