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Lockerbie has a well developed transport network for a town its size. It lies next to the A74(M) Motorway and also has a Railway Station on the main Glasgow- London West Coast Main Line . Lockerbie's town hall is the most dominating building in town, and is an excellent example of Scottish Baronial Style , built in the typical local red Sandstone . The building looks over a War Memorial built after the Second World War , with its characteristic Bronze statue of an angel atop a white base with inscriptions. Historically the town has been a trading post for both Cattle and Sheep . Because of its proximity to the borders, the cattle trade with England dominated local economy for a long time. The town is still home to sheep auctioning to this day. LOCKERBIE DISASTER See Pan Am Flight 103 for more details Lockerbie is known internationally as the site where, on December 21 , 1988 , the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 landed on the town as a result of a terrorist bomb. In the UK the event is usually called the Lockerbie ''disaster'', ''bombing'', or simply ''Lockerbie''. Eleven townspeople were killed in Sherwood Crescent, where the plane's wings and fuel tanks crashed to earth in a fiery explosion, leaving a huge crater. Until the in Lebanon, where 241 US military personnel perished). The 270 victims (259 on the plane, 11 on the ground) were citizens of 21 nations. Of them, 189 were Americans. The subsequent police investigation was the largest ever mounted in Scottish history and became a murder inquiry when evidence of a bomb was found. Two men accused of being Libyan intelligence agents were eventually charged with planting the bomb. Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was jailed for life in January 2001 following an 84-day trial under Scottish law, at Camp Zeist in Holland. His alleged accomplice, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty. In 2002 Al Megrahi's appeal against conviction was rejected. {Link without Title} LOCKERBIE ACADEMY Lockerbie Academy, the town's public high school, became the headquarters for the response and recovery effort after the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster. Subsequently, the academy, in cooperation with Syracuse University of Syracuse, New York , USA , which lost 35 students in the bombing, established a scholarship at the university for two of its most outstanding graduating students. Each year, two graduating students spend one academic year at Syracuse University as Lockerbie Scholars before they begin their university study. The scholarships have led to a lasting relationship between the university and the town. The rector of Lockerbie Academy, Graham Herbert, was recognized in November 2003 at Syracuse University with the Chancellor's Medal for outstanding service. A student at the Academy when the disaster occurred, Helen Jones, was killed in the 7 July 2005 London Bombings {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS |