[This is the headline over a report published on the BBC News website on this date in 2006. It reads in part:]
A play inspired by unsung heroes of the Lockerbie air disaster is to be given its Scottish premiere in Dumfries.
[The] Women of Lockerbie tells the story of volunteers who spent months washing and ironing the clothes of victims before they were returned to families.
She only heard about the Lockerbie laundry project 10 years after it happened but says it had a profound effect on her home country.
"The women of Lockerbie - they are almost holy to people here," she said. "It just had a profound impact.
"The few families that I have spoken to all credited the people of Lockerbie, the women and the laundry project in particular as being central to their ability to heal and live again.
"I approached this story with an incredible reverence and respect and admiration for the people of Lockerbie.
"I just hope and pray that the play is received with the spirit that I wrote it in."
Two of the cast live in Lockerbie - including Andy Morton who plays an American father whose son died there.
"Having been there in Lockerbie on the night of the disaster it was something I felt I wanted to do," he explained.
"What has been quite striking, though, is the play is not a history of what happened on the night of the disaster or indeed what happened later.
"It is a story about how people deal with bereavement and come to terms with loss using what happened in Lockerbie as a kind of springboard - as an inspiration."
[RB: Still today The Women of Lockerbie is one of the plays most frequently performed by American high school, college and other amateur theatre groups.]
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