All day long the good folk of Lockerbie walked up their High Street to their town hall and on the public notice board scanned the list containing the names of more than 200 people who were friends, neighbours, relatives, acquaintances, or just fellow citizens.
On the night Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky, December 21 1988, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 in Lockerbie, I was the late-shift reporter at The Herald.
Facing The Bear: Scotland and the Cold War
THE First Minister was in Katowice this week at the latest round of international climate talks, where she warned against climate complacency and spoke of increasing Scotland’s ambition in response to the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
WIND the clock back 10 years and Scotland was in the grip of the global banking crisis. Royal Bank of Scotland was bailed out, Halifax Bank of Scotland was forced into a shotgun marriage with Lloyds TSB and consumers stared into the precipice of a decade of ultra-low savings rates.
DURING the course of 1918 the alliance between the Entente powers and the United States grew in cohesion, at sea as well as on land, and in its control of global resources and its capacity to use them for the purposes of the war. At the same time, tensions between the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, intensified. One alliance rallied, and the other fell apart. The consequences determined both how and when the war was won.
