I pass through Lockerbie quite often, and although Sherwood Crescent where the main wing section filled with fuel fell and exploded, has been re-developed, there are other reminders of the event, such as the Dryfesdale Visitor Centre at the local cemetery which is on the Dumfries road and the rural Tundergarth Church, a few miles east of Lockerbie, next to the field where the nose section of the Boeing 747 came to rest. Some of the lighter debris was carried further east by the wind and settled in the uplands to the south of Hawick. It was an event which brought together the USA and Scotland, Scotland's biggest ever mass murder, 270 people, mostly aboard an American plane and a few Scots on the ground. Although there have been other terrorist outrages which have killed even more people, this is the one which I remember most about because it happened so close to home.

Tundergarth Church in September of this year.