More than 150 people attended a wreath-laying ceremony yesterday at Lockerbie's Dryfesdale Cemetery.

The leaders met in Libya amid hopes it would open the Lockerbie discussion - but members of the group fear the issue is being ignored.

Britain and the US have been involved in talks with Libyan officials since the Lockerbie trial ended last year to agree a compensation deal for the victims' relatives in return for international sanctions being lifted.

Triples: Lockerbie 5 Marchmount 15; Thornhill 9 Eastriggs 16; Kirkcudbright Beechgrove 20; Spalding 14 Kirkconnel 13; Castle Douglas 5 Annan 17; Dumfries 8 Gretna 21; Creetown 19 Maxwelltown 14; New Abbey 20 Sanquhar 5.

The reserve was the brainchild of Jim Rae, former principal teacher of biology at Lockerbie Academy, who saw the potential of an old curling pond hidden away in the forest.

"Returning our railways to public ownership would see profits re-invested in services and rail infrastructure which would improve services from Lockerbie, not taken out of our services for private profits.

The walkers scaled Burnswark, a hill to the south of Lockerbie.

Eleven people died in Lockerbie along with the 259 passengers and crew on board the New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 when it came down on the night of December 21, 1988.

Eleven died in Lockerbie with the 259 on board the New Yorkbound Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988.

"However, throughout, the people in Lockerbie have retained their dignity and stoicism, and offered friendship to those who lost loved ones." The majority of those on board the jet were American citizens, including 35 students of Syracuse University in New York State.

Lockerbie bomb investigators closing in on two Libyans suspected of being behind atrocity

Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie on the evening of December 21 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.