Irish director Jim Sheridan, Oscar-nominated for ‘My Left Foot’ and “In the Name of the Father", will head up a star-strewn team led by Oscar winner Colin Firth in a recreation of the terrible events surrounding the alleged Libyan bombing of a Pan American US flight which came down over Lockerbie Scotland in 1998.
Charlie Allan, who has died aged 84, was a Scottish farmer, economics lecturer, broadcaster, newspaper columnist, singer, composer of bothy ballads – and champion caber tosser.