Council and emergency services officers met at the Dumfries bunker during the 1988 Lockerbie disaster.

BBC: Bunker mentality: The Cold War bunkers still in use

Thanks to the Lockerbie disaster, the Gulf war and a recession, air travel then fell for two years in a row.

ECONOMIST: Aircraft industry

They have suffered financially despite help from the Lockerbie disaster fund.

BBC: Living with Lockerbie

France had forced a delay on the vote until Friday in protest at a higher compensation deal having been agreed between Libya and victims' families of the later Lockerbie disaster.

CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'

The bank's internal communications chief, Ray O'Rourke , has a background in crisis PR from his days as an executive at Burson-Marsteller, where he represented Pan Am Airlines in the Lockerbie air disaster and Perrier in its more recent benzene fiasco.

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