Musa Kusa’s defection to Britain is a “great day” for relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing, a relative of one of the victims said today.

US senators who want a hearing into the Lockerbie bomber’s release were urged to sign a letter asking the Scottish Government to hold its own public inquiry into the tragedy, it emerged last night.

A body which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has been given permission to release details of the case of the Lockerbie bomber, it was announced today.

THE chief constable of the police force investigating the Lockerbie atrocity said yesterday they would continue to search for the convicted bomber’s accomplices.

The Lockerbie bomber today backed calls for a public inquiry into the atrocity.

SCOTLAND yesterday released a former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, because he is dying of cancer.

FAMILIES of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing stood sharply divided yesterday over reports that the former Libyan agent jailed for life for the attack is to be freed on compassionate grounds.

THE Lockerbie bomber is battling “advanced stage” cancer, his lawyer said yesterday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was flying into Tripoli today for controversial talks with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

RELATIVES of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have given a cautious welcome to a statement by Libya that it is ready, in principle, to pay them compensation.

Nelson Mandela has arrived in Scotland to visit the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Negotiators are close to an agreement on the amount of compensation Libya will offer families of the 270 people killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, a lawyer involved in the talks said today.

Relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing are travelling to Holland for the first stage of the appeal of the Libyan convicted of the atrocity.

Families of the British Lockerbie bombing victims are to press for further inquiries into the disaster.

Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the bombing, collapsed in court and was taken away by paramedics.

A Scottish court today convicted Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi of murder in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie that killed 270 people.

Dr Jim Swire, 60, spokesman for the UK Lockerbie families, said the verdict would not be the ‘‘end of the road' for the victims’ relatives.