Four US senators are calling on Britain to investigate the circumstances of last year’s release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

BRITAIN’S complicated relations with Libya returned to centre stage yesterday as Foreign Office diplomats took the unusual step of denying a newspaper report about a secret deal with Moammar Gaddafi’s regime.

BRITAIN has released documents detailing confidential exchanges over the Lockerbie bomber’s release – letters it hoped will end speculation that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi’s freedom was used to sweeten economic and political deals between Libya and Britain.

THE health of the Lockerbie bomber, who has terminal prostate cancer, has swiftly deteriorated since his release from a Scottish prison less than two weeks ago, a senior Libyan official has said.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke his silence on the Lockerbie bomber yesterday, saying he was repulsed by the hero’s welcome Libya gave the convicted killer and insisting he played no role in Scotland’s much-criticised decision to free him.

THE head of Scotland’s government has said that FBI director Robert Mueller was wrong to criticise the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber – insisting there was public support for the release on compassionate grounds.