SCOTTISH and UK ministers were at loggerheads over the continued survival of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing last night after William Hague described the medical advice that freed him as "worthless".
The Scottish Government angrily accused the Foreign Secretary of attacking a doctor of “impeccable integrity”.
But pressure intensified on the administration at Holyrood as a leading surgeon predicted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, 59, could still be alive for years to come.
