THE Government secretly forged trade links with Libya in the 1970s, while privately acknowledging the north African state was arming the IRA.

Colonel Gaddafi is expected to produce evidence he claims will clear the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Lockerbie trial prosecutors have closed their case after drawing together hundreds of hours of evidence.

Prosecutors in the Lockerbie trial have begun to draw their conclusions from hundreds of hours of evidence and are insisting the two Libyan defendants plotted to destroy Pan Am 103.