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Fresh calls over Lockerbie advice

Opposition parties have stepped up calls for the medical evidence behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber to be published in full.

The calls come six months after Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed terminally ill Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds.

Labour and the Tories have again hit out at the decision to return Megrahi to Libya, calling it a grave error.

Read entire article at BBC