A review of US government records found no information about BP seeking to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber, a State Department official said today.

THE outgoing chief executive of BP has refused US officials’ requests to appear at a hearing next month on the release of the Libyan man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

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 string of high profile British witnesses who refused to testify at a US Senate hearing into the release of the Lockerbie bomber were today facing accusations of “stonewalling”.

BP CHIEF executive Tony Hayward has been asked to testify before a US Senate committee about the oil giant’s role in Scotland’s decision to release the Lockerbie aeroplane bomber, a Democratic senator said yesterday.

BP CONFIRMED yesterday it had lobbied the British government in late 2007 over a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya because it was concerned a slow resolution would impact an offshore drilling deal with Libya.

Four US senators tonight asked the State Department to investigate whether oil giant BP played a role in winning last year’s release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

FOUR US senators have written a letter calling on Britain to investigate the circumstances surrounding last year’s release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

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.

REPUBLICANS are rejoicing and Democrats reeling in the wake of Scott Brown’s stunning victory over Martha Coakley in a special Massachusetts Senate election that Brown insists was not simply a referendum on President Barack Obama.

US senators criticised authorities regarding an airport security breach at the weekend as a video of the incident emerged showing a guard standing nearby as a man followed a woman into the terminal.

Actor Michael J Fox is appearing in adverts supporting the campaign for stem cell research.

TWO lawsuits have been filed in a bid to stop the $6.8 billion (€5.7bn) takeover of significant operations at six major US ports by an Arab company.

BUSH administration officials, trying to calm a political furore over allowing a United Arab Emirates company to take over six US seaports, told Congress yesterday they spent three months reviewing the deal and said all concerns about security were satisfied.

Bush administration officials, trying to calm a political furore over allowing a United Arab Emirates company to take over a half-dozen US seaports, told Congress today they spent three months reviewing the deal and said all concerns about security were satisfied.