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David Stewart was 17 when he and his father discovered the bodies of a toddler and a baby on their farm just outside the Dumfries and Galloway town.Debris from the plane had been strewn across their land. In spring this year Mr Stewart found what he believed to be part of the plane in one of his fields.The airliner Pan Am 103 was flying from Heathrow to New York on 21 December 1988, when a terrorist bomb exploded in its hold at 31,000ft. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 people whose homes were destroyed when the wreckage fell on Lockerbie. Lockerbie: The town scarred by Pan Am 103Finding words to describe LockerbieMr Stewart was in his family's farmhouse when he heard a noise outside. He looked out of the window and saw flames rise from a huge explosion in Lockerbie. He said he did not realise what had happened until his father Ian came home in a state of shock. He had been out buying turkeys for Christmas."He said he'd had the most horrendous journey coming home, because there were bits of plane and he'd driven past his friend's farm and that was where the cockpit had fell," Mr Stewart said.His father decided they should go out to their fields. "They'd opened the town hall as a temporary mortuary and we just went out to see if there were any survivors or casualties or anything, just to see if we could help," he added. They searched with a torch and the lights from their pick up truck."There was all the luggage and Christmas presents lying all over the ground," he said.There were no survivors, there or anywhere else. Just bodies. The first body they found was that of a young woman. She was Lynne Hartunian, a 21-year-old college student from New York. The second was a baby. Mr Stewart has never been certain of the child's name. There were two children of that age on the plane.The third was a little girl."She was about 18 months old," said David. "A toddler. All I can really remember is she had really really blonde hair. Th...

Michigan’s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs office says Thursday that a cease and desist order has been issued to Knollwood Memorial Park cemetery in Canton Township due to improper storage of remains.On Wednesday, police removed nearly four dozen fetal remains from Knollwood and a Detroit cemetery. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday there were “some discrepancies” with documents for 27 sets of remains from Knollwood and 17 from the Detroit cemetery.The remains were handled by Perry Funeral Home in Detroit where 63 fetal remains were found in October. Perry’s mortuary science license has been suspended.The Associated Press left a message Thursday seeking comment from the cemetery.The Associated Press...