Lockerbie: ing the victims of Flight 103

Almost 40 years on, it seems surprising there are still new stories to tell about the Lockerbie disaster.

The destruction of Pan Am 103 in the skies above the small Dumfries and Galloway town on 21 December 1988 is one of the most chronicled events in recent British history.

A bomb exploded in the plane's cargo hold, causing the Boeing 747 to break up at 31,000ft as it flew from Heathrow to New York.

All 259 engers and crew on board were killed, along with 11 people in Lockerbie who died when the plane fell on their homes. It remains the biggest terror attack to have taken place on British soil.

Coverage tends to focus on anniversaries, but the past six months have brought two big-budget television dramas and later this year a play about the town's response to the disaster will debut at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

Now, a BBC Scotland documentary aims to tell some of the less well-known stories about those who died on the flight, and about those they left behind.

Among the victims on the plane was Tim Burman, a 24-year-old banker who was flying to New York to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, Rose Grant.

Tim was the youngest of four and the only boy. His three sisters - Rachel, Tanya and Fiona - him as an "arty, sporty" brother who was keen on the environment and loved running in the Scottish hills.

Tanya says: "He genuinely was easy-going and fun, really good fun".

Rose, who Tim met while he was on a gap year in Australia, says: "I enjoyed his sense of humour, his style, sense of adventure, ability to get on with everyone."

They all mourn his lost potential. His sister Tanya says: "He's both the brother we had, but also a victim of Pan Am 103."

Rose believes Tim and his death created a huge bond between them all.

"Tim is everywhere in the conversation and the mannerisms of Rachel, Tanya and Fiona," she says.

"Our connection is held together by him still."

Olive Gordon was 25 and a hairdresser from Birmingham.

She had bought a last-minute ticket on Pan Am 103 and was planning on enjoying some shopping in New York in the run up to Christmas.

"She was just yapping. She said 'I'm going to America tomorrow. Going to buy stuff'. She loved shopping," her sister Donna says.

Donna describes Olive as "very bubbly, very full on. You just would not forget her if you knew her".

Olive was one of nine siblings.

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