'No record' of BP Lockerbie bomber release link

A US state department official has said there is no evidence in government records that oil firm BP sought the early release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Nancy McEldowney was speaking to a senate committee examining claims of a link to an oil deal.

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The Scottish government said the entire basis for the hearing had fallen away....