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My mum’s house was struck by Pan Am flight 103 after it was blasted out of the sky – she was lucky to escape alive
KATE RAMSDEN recalls a day of disaster in Lockerbie 30 years ago
Pan Am Flight 103, 21 December 1988

TODAY, the shortest day, is the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over the Border’s town of Lockerbie.

This has particular and personal resonance for me as I grew up in Lockerbie and have family there. 

At the time of the disaster, my mum, Ella Ramsden, lived in the house I grew up in, in Park Place. 

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