In a written ruling, Superior Court Judge William Ryan vacated the death sentences of James N. Blair and Anderson Hawthorne Jr. and ordered the two to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
A tartan scarf and badges of a protester during a Scottish independence rally in George Square, last month A FORMER UK Government civil servant has launched a furious attack on the Scottish Tories’ “vandalism of the Union” – revealing he now believes independence may be the best path for him. Richard Haviland, who worked within the UK Government for 25 years with time in the Department for International Development and Foreign Office, accused Boris Johnson’s party of making him a “stranger in my own country”. Writing in The Times, the former official hit out at the Brexiteer Conservatives for “othering” the losing side of the EU referendum.
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Air-traffic controller Alan Topp sat with his eyes fixed to the radar screen, watching the white marker indicating that Pan Am Flight 103, which had taken off from London’s Heathrow airport 27 minutes before, had crossed into Scottish airspace on its voyage across the Atlantic to New York. It was a pretty standard route, nothing too interesting that December night over three decades ago, but suddenly, Topp shot to full attention: The radar screen showed not just one blip where Flight 103 should have been, but four. Topp tried to contact the pilot of the aircraft, but there was no response. He buzzed the oceanic controllers responsible for the plane’s Atlantic crossing, but they too had lost contact with the plane. As his colleagues gathered around his screen, they would soon learn that those four blips represented the c