A scholarship scheme – set up in the wake of the Lockerbie bombing – which sends Scottish school pupils to a US university is set to be revived.
Two Lockerbie Academy students were selected to study at Syracuse University in New York state every year between 1989 and 2024 but no intake will happen in 2025/26.
Thirty-five Syracuse students were among 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.
The university has announced that the scholarship is now due to restart in autumn 2026 but it is unclear who will fund the programme.
Previously, the Lockerbie students selected to spend a year at the US university were chosen by the Lockerbie Syracuse Trust (LST).
The scheme was funded by both the university and the trust – with a contribution also understood to come from Dumfries and Galloway Council.
There will been no intake for 2025/26 but Syracuse University has now relaunched the scheme, describing it as a "reimagined partnership".
Students will be chosen by a panel of representatives from the university and the academy using "elevated selection criteria based on rigorous academic standards".
The university said it would select students who demonstrate "academic excellence and a deep understanding" of the Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy.
A press statement makes no mention of the LST and does not state how the scheme will be funded.
