Plans for a film based on the bombing of a Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 have angered residents of the small village. Two hundred and fifty nine passengers and 11 townspeople were killed when a bomb planted by Libyan terrorists exploded over the village.

New Zealand director Niki Caro, will base the Warner Bros movie on the memoirs of Ken Dornstein, whose brother David was killed at Lockerbie.

But retired policeman Stuart Henderson, who led the international hunt for the bombers, says relatives of the dead object to the film being made.

He says, "If it's going to be done, it has to be done in such a way that it's not offensive. It has to be treated with kid gloves."

Jean Berkley, whose son Alistair died in the explosion, adds, "I don't think the relatives of the dead would be very interested in this film."

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